April 6, 2009

[7:33:11 AM MDT] Pam
It looks like most of this gang are "math people".  I'm wondering, though, if we haven't already exhausted lots of math ideas with all the math projects I've seen.  =?  Maybe not.  Not being a math person, you're going to have to tell me the answer to that one...  Otherwise, we might want to consider a topic like RTI or the NETS.  Something that would be cohesive (not look like a number of projects glued together - which Tony said he doesn't want) and broad enough to allow for a variety of aspects to highlight. Any other ideas for topics out there?

[7:37:08 AM MDT] Pam
Another idea...  We could do a Welcome Center to CTER Metaverse.  Kind of like the one in SL where there are various places where you get basic info on moving around and functioning there.   In highly technical terms: Kind of a "heads up", "how to" of this and that.  --Pam Again

[7:51:24 AM MDT] Patrick
This might be a good idea considering that some of the other classes might start using the metaverse for their curriculum, too.

490 (T. Anderson) is starting to explore using it for the mediation exercise and many of those kids are new to the program and new to The Program.

[8:22:34 AM MDT] Trish
I really like the welcome center idea. Perhaps we could include links and notecards on how to do certain things

[12:16:12 PM MDT] Brian
I like the welcome center idea as well.  It would be a nice way to pass along support/advice for the issues we encountered.  

Brian

[6:44:14 PM MDT] Matt
I like this idea a lot.  Now the way I understood it was that this would be just for second life.  I don't think that is enough.  I think we should dive into other areas of CTER such as discussing moodle.  Lets throw this idea by Tony so that we get first dibs. 

Matt McCulley

[6:47:59 PM MDT] Matt
I sent a note to Tony with our thoughts just to get in and not have to worry about competing with another group with the same idea.

Matt McCulley

[7:23:41 PM MDT] Trish
Thanks, Matt.

[8:06:42 PM MDT] Matt
Tony told me to post this in the forum.  I hope you all don't mind that I ran with it.  It seemed like we all liked the idea.  Tony also really liked the idea. 

Here is what he sent:

"Sounds awesome. I'm sure CTER will get a lot of use out of that.

A Moodle tutorial would also be okay, but that sounds like the kind of

thing that would be better done with a screencast.

I'd concentrate on the Metaverse aspect.

This is a perfect project for you guys because you've got the basic

experience down, but are still new enough to it that you'll remember

what was most confusing to a newcommer.

Go ahead and post something about it in the forum to stake your

claim. :-)"

Matt McCulley