DEN in SL Demo in RL

This week there are 50 plus educators on a DEN Professional Education Excursion ( a cruise to the Bahamas with workshops included).

Today the DEN in SL Leadership Council pulled together a 30 minute demo of SL and how educators can use it to enhance both their own learning and student learning. Three of our council members were on the cruise along with the Discovery Team. Three of us were in different parts of the USA; MA, DC, and AZ. We all met at the DEN house on Eduisland II at 10 AM SLT.

SL was lagging today. A few minutes before the demo was to start Murphy's Law and two of us crashed. But then it was "show time" and even with slow bandwidth on the ship, we were able to do a tour of the DEN in SL house and some of the links and resources. We demonstrated how speakeasy can be used to prepare text, how avatars walk, fly and teleport. The Eduisland neighborhood was highlighted and we teleported to the Genome Cell project.

While the audience watched through Laelia's eyes, on the ship questions were being answered and more explanations were given.

We hope to do more demonstrations of SL to show the power of this type of networking.

Look for DEN to host workshops in SL and in collaboration with RL events.