Relive08 Blog

Is it really a week since the start of relive08? My! How the time flies! It’s been such a busy week too! We’re all just hoping that Anna gets back from Thailand unscathed… It must be a little stressful for her. Indeed, let’s hope for a peaceful resolution to the current situation out there [...]

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The second day turned out to be equally as absorbing as day one. It began with a panel debate. The panellists, Edward Castronova, Roo Reynolds, Bill Thompson and Claudia L’Amoreaux were fielded questions by Chair, Ren Reynolds .
This is a quick summary of the debate:
Roo suggests in order to convince education authorities that Web [...]

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Most of the webcasts are available on http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?whichevent=1247 The others will become available in due course. Please keep checking the website for the one you want to watch.

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Terry was our after dinner speaker. He gave a moving talk about his time in captivity and how he coped with his situation. An inspiration to us all.
Anna, Denise and Terry.

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It’s been a long, but very interesting (sorry, am going to think of another adjective to say same) day with a wide variety of presentations and lots of stimulating discussions. I have taken copious notes on the sessions I have been in with every intention of blogging on each one but I didn’t have a [...]

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I opted to go to parallel session C: one presentation on teaching maths in Second Life and another using Second Life for staff development. Breen Sweeney teaches with the Open University and carried out a pilot using SL with 6 volunteers for tutorials. He discussed using both text and voice for these and the issues [...]

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Edward gave a very thought provoking and interesting presentation.
Edward Castonova doesn’t spend time in Second Life but games and virtual worlds are important. And it’s not teenage boys that are online gaming, more likely to be 33 years old and a high chance that they are women. Virtual Worlds need to be more than a [...]

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Anna Peachey opened the conference wearing her wings! Denise Kirkpatrick, pro Vice Chancellor, Learning Teaching and Quality presented the Welcome Address. Pleased to support this conference. Interesting to see how we can interact with virtual worlds – presenting interesting challenges regarding policy, funding and fitting into existing OU strategy. Trying to tackle these challenges seriously. [...]

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Right! We have arrived at ReLIVE08 – well, some of us have and we enjoyed a very pleasant reception. It was great to meet people who have signed up for the Facebook group or who follow on Twitter. The discussions are carrying on as I write and I know that there are going to be [...]

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This blog will be updated throughout the two day conference.

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