Meeting in the University of Helsinki in SL

I was making a task list for the group meeting of the Adult Education Center's "Social Media -project" persons. The meeting was to be held Wednesday the 18th of June 2008. I were taking a deep look in the EduFinland island and suddenly saw there was an announcement for a meeting of the ICT designers of the University of Helsinki in SL which was just about to start. In despite of I do not belong to the staff of the University I decided to stay in the island for a while to see how the meeting would go.

Gradually about 20 avatars teleported themselves into the EduFinland island and the meeting started. First we were just gathering the avatars into the small auditorium and introduced ourselves. Afterwards we were walking around to get known about the island, specially the University's area in it. Then we devided into two groups and were chatting about SL's possibilities in eLearning genre. Finally we reflected with each other what we had chatted in the groups.

The meeting took about one hour and 15 minutes and there were some good ideas. We also chatted about the problems of SL and compared it on the other communicating systems. Everyone agreed that there are many challenges if thinking about using SL as a learning tool. The immersivity of SL makes it both interesting but also addictive.

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