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BABEL

Berlin Baghdad

11 SETTEMBRE

END OF THE BERLIN DREAM

END OF THE ISLAM EXCEPTIONALIST MYTH BUT

OIL CONTINUES TO COMMAND POLICIES

INCAPACITY TO UNDERSTAND THE CHALLENGES

SELF-DEFEATING UNPRINCIPLED NEGOTIATIONS

IRAQ: WRONG CHOISE WRONG ARGUMENTTS

IMPERIAL IRAQ

THE RUTHLESS CHARACTER OF THE REGIME

IRAQI OIL FINANCING THE OPERATION

NO ALTERNATIVES TO MILITARY OPERATION

WMD & AL QAEDA

THE HIDDEN MEMBER OF THE COALITION OF THE WILLING

THE IRAQI DISASTER ON THE MAKING

OCCUPATION BY PASDARANSPONSORED FORCES

WIDESPREAD TERRORISM IN THE NAME OF DEMOCRACY

DISMANTLEOF THE IRAQI STATE

FORGET TRIBES ,SPONSOR RELIGIUS ORGANISATION

"From Berlin to Baghdad" conference Mr.Paulo Casaca

Ieri sono stata alla conferenza dell'europarlamentare Paulo Casaca "Berlin to Bagdad" invitata da Irah Anatine. L'avvenimento è stato davvero eccezionale ed esemplificativo del grande potere che SL può avere nell'interazione tra i popoli e della possibilità di farli interagire per la costruzione della pace oltre che della possibilità (non trascurabile) di tenere conferenze che possonoe essere ascoltate da ogni parte del mondo esenza pericoli di attacchi terroristici.

Mr. Paulo Casaca hosts Conference in Second Life
Da Ana su Mercoledì, gennaio 16 2008, 17:38 - Second Life - Permalink
TO ANY CAFEBABEL.COM USERS INTERESTED ON THIS EVENT: PLEASE SEND AN EMAIL TO irah_anatine@hotmail.com. WE WILL PROVIDE YOU "USER FRIENDLY" AVATAR'S IN ORDER TO ALLOW YOU TO ATTEND.

Higher education

Work or play?
Educators say Second Life is an effective teaching tool in part because it provides a social laboratory where role-playing, simulations, exploration, and experimentation can be tried out in a relatively risk-free environment. But perhaps the most touted benefit of Second Life is the opportunity it gives students to interact with people around the world—there are users registered from more than 100 countries. It also allows students to visit places that no longer exist, like a townscape reconstructed to look like Elizabethan England in the late 16th century.
http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/e-learning/2008/01/10/a-second-life-for-higher-ed.html

Fantastico....ma............................. ATTENZIONE

It sounds fun, right? Indeed, one worry is that student activity on Second Life may be more playful than pedagogical. Students have to learn to teleport, manage and outfit their avatars, and handle basic communication before they can even begin to think about the course homework. And the software isn't all that intuitive. "Students need to have adequate time to become minimally skilled," says Robert Vernon, who teaches in Second Life at Indiana University School of Social Work in Indianapolis. Policing behavior in the virtual realm has also been difficult. In one disturbing incident, Ohio University had to temporarily close its island when a virtual gunman began shooting other visitors. And this summer, the Woodbury University island was permanently deleted after Woodbury student avatars engaged in disruptive and hostile behavior.

The most common complaint, however, is that communication between avatars is inadequate. Although it is possible to click on emoticons to, for instance, make an avatar smile, the actual effect can look unnatural and even unnerving. "I've tried to conduct classes in Second Life, and it is clearly inferior to a classroom situation," says Peter Ludlow, a professor at the University of Toronto. In a classroom, teachers can read the body language of students and determine if they are attentive, bored, tired, distracted, or agitated, but in Second Life they get none of that feedback.
"The eye gaze of an avatar means nothing," says Ludlow. "The student could be in the next room making a sandwich."

..forse se non si pensassa più a sL solo come ad una piattaforma od ad un mondo virtuale dove realizzare classi virtuali ed insegnamenti virtuali del tutto uguali a quelli reali...queste obiezioni verrebbero aperdere di significato.

NO LA POTENZIALITA' E' BEN MAGGIORE...bisogna sfruttare e sperimentare il valore aggiunto del mondo virtuale, la sua specificità, e non copiare quello reale(chiaramente superiore per "effetti realistici" e comunicazione in presenza...ma siamo proprio così sicuri che i feedback del linguaggio non verbale non abbiano anche dei risvolti che potrebbero ostacolare la comunicazione e la creatività invece di favorirla?)!

Educational Uses of Second Life

CLASSROOM EMULATION
ROLE PLAYING
SCAVENGER HUNTS
GUIDED TOURS
LEARNING BY DOING
CO-CREATION
SIMULATION
SLOODLE
TUTORIALS
PROFESSIONAL NETWORKS
COLLABORATION
LANGUAGE TRANSLATORS
INFORMATION SHARING


SLURLS:
GREEN /197/159/227/
EDUISLAND/128/128/0/
ENGLISH%20VILLAGE/137/137/46/
ESPERANCE/91/107/23/
ISTE%20ISLAND/93/83/30/
MSIT%20ISLAND/186/246/108/
MNC%20CAMPUS/139/225/42
OHIO%20UNIVERSITY/48/122/33/
ONECLEVELAND/158/108/78/
TOMPSON/153/96/100/
RENAISSANSE&20ISLAND/69/183/151/
VASSAR/195/89/90/
SJSU%20SLIS%20/21/227/0/
ROMA/123/34/27/
SEDIG/21/42/21/
LUCTESA/110/128/25/

SITI TRADIZIONALI

HTTP://MSITSECONDLIFE.WIKISPACES.COM/LEARNING+ARCHETIPES
HTTP://ED.GOV.ABOUTOFFICES/LIST/OS/TCHNOLOGY/PLAN/2004/SITE/EDLITE-BACKGROUND.HTLMHTTP://EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG/WIKI/TEEN_SECOND_LIFE

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