Antony Kontellis UTS Blog

I have now completed all parts of Assignment 3, including: 

all the blog posts (http://antonykontellis.edublogs.org/)
final reflection (http://antonykontellis.edublogs.org/assignment-3-final-reflection/)
and Additional Essay for the extra marks (http://antonykontellis.edublogs.org/assignment-3-additional-essay-option-1/).

It has been a great learning experience and opened my eyes to a different aspect of e-Learning and Organisational Learning.

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The total time I spent in 2nd Life was 6 hours. This included:

Installing the program
Setting up an avatar and account
Navigating through Orientation Island
Exploring Help Island
Searching and teleporting to various Educationally related islands/areas

Below are my screencaps (click the link to view the image):
1. The first message you get when entering 2nd Life for the first time:
http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/8630/94404485hs6.jpg
2. [...]

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This post relates to my overview of educational resources available in 2nd Life.
As mentioned, on Help Island you are provided with a helpful directory of educational resources.
In addition, the Search tool proves eternally helpful in locating educationally related areas of 2nd Life. I searched for things like “seminar”, which brought up a multitude of places [...]

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This post relates to Help Island, the third step in exploring and learning how to use 2nd Life, which I completed yesterday (21st October).
After finally figuring out how to teleport out of Orientation Island, I was taken to the next place, “Help Island” (HI). HI is a user directed island, differing from OI because all learning [...]

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This posts relates to Assignment 3 on 2nd Life.
After initial setup (see previous post) I commenced my exploration and learning around 2nd Life over the next few days. The first place I was taken to when I logged in on the 2nd Life program was “Orientation Island” (OI).
OI is a place where all new users [...]

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This post is to reflect on my initial setup of 2nd Life for Assignment 3.
On Thursday 18th October I commenced this assignment by setting up 2nd Life on my computer. This was relatively easy. The main page (www.secondlife.com) was clear in terms of where to go to set up a free account. After entering various basic [...]

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For Assignment 3, I have decided to do 2nd Life. The reasoning is because of my skeptical stance and also interest in learning more about this technology following classroom discussions and the lecture and demo we had in class last week. 2nd Life does have great potential from an organisational perspective, and this is what [...]

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Today at work my department was discussing utilising iPod’s as incentives in our firm. Currently, departments within my company (including Marketing, Innovations, Sustainability, etc) give away iPod’s as rewards for participation in various activities and incentives, as well as gifts for long service anniversaries and at conferences and seminars.
I believe that utilising iPod’s as incentives [...]

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Yesterday we had a guest lecturer come in and present the concept of Virtual Worlds (specifically 2nd Life). I have posted on this before with my ideas and skepticism around the concept of Virtual Worlds. After yesterday’s lecture, I most definitely have a much more clear understanding of exactly what is involved and what capabilities [...]

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1. What do you already know about your preferred learning styles?

Currently, I have undertaken several preference and learning tests, such as the Meyers Briggs Type Indicator test among others. I know that I like to be autonomous in many instances, for things to be very orderly, that I have a preference for information based on fact [...]

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