Thursday, 26 February 2009

Phillip Cole's Mini Lecture now available outside of Second Life

The first of the school's mini lectures is now available via the Lecture Theatre webpage as well as within the Lecture Theatre itself on the School's Second Life Island.


This means you are able to listen to the content without having to login to Second Life if you so wish.

 
 

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Postgraduate Course Showcase added

We’ve added a postgraduate course showcase on the first floor of the Visitors Centre.


To visit it, enter the visitors centre and then go upstairs.

 

Here you can learn more about our post graduate courses by clicking on each of the signs, as shown in the image below:


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Wednesday, 25 February 2009

New resource added to the TELLS Teaching Zone

Just a quick message to let you know that we have added a “Landmark” giver at the TELLS Teaching zone.


By clicking on the large red push pin, you will receive a folder with a note card inside that lists places of interest that you may wish to visit to learn more about Teaching & Learning within Second Life.


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We will be adding more places to the list as time goes by – if you know of a place which you think should be added to our list then please let us know.

Monday, 23 February 2009

1st mini lecture now playing in the Lecture Theatre.

Phillip Cole, the Associate Dean for Research and Enterprise in the school has published a mini lecture on on research ethics for undergraduate students.

It’s 8 minutes long and is now playing in the Lecture Theatre on our Second Life island.

To listen to the lecture, just walk into the lecture theatre and ensure that streaming audio is turned on.

TELLS Teaching Zone added to the visitors centre.

A new teaching zone has been added to the islands visitors centre, called the TELLS teaching zone it showcases 3 of the E-learning websites created by the School’s Academic Leader and lets users pick up free teaching objects & structures for use in world.


To visit it, just teleport to our island and then go to the 1st floor of the visitors centre.


You can learn more about the TELLS teaching zone by clicking here.