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Comment by Maria Rosario Di Mónaco on May 23, 2009 at 8:50am

Vance, I'm just back from our CALL SIG meeting and couldn't wait to say THANK YOU for making things so easy. The teachers in the group all succeeded in joining Robin Good's session! Even though we were working from a cybercafe and most of them had never attended a live session before.

I'm sure this can't have been easy, but you have the talent to make complicated things appear simple. Accessibility is perfect. The sessions can be reached from many different links and in many different ways. I chose to enter through Google since some of the girls are complete newbies and I wanted to keep things as simple as possible.

Once Robin's session was over, we continued exploring and discovered that from UsStream we could see past sessions. Wonderful! I take my hat off!

Mary

Comment by James O'Reilly on May 23, 2009 at 3:28am

Feel free to ticket your recommendations at this Google Form

Recommendations for Continuous Improvement of Virtual Learning Processes
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=ckozM2QyRjQtTXJFYTZBNjVyNExuSWc6MA..

Comment by Maru del Campo on May 22, 2009 at 3:00pm

Dear Mary and Morteza:

Thanks to Jeff, Vance and others you can view the events held at SL live in the following link
http://webheadsinaction.org/chat

If you have low Internet connection you'll be able to listen and watch the recordings. The links to them will be available soon.

Have a nice weekend!

Comment by Morteza on May 22, 2009 at 10:13am

Hi to All,
I wish all are ok,Unfortunately,I couldn't access any of the events because of low internet speed and SL in blocked here in my country.If possible to our community plz change the place of presentation to Skype or at the same time in both the places for low speed internet connection.All the best .Moreza

Comment by Vance Stevens on May 21, 2009 at 11:25pm

Volunteer webcasters are planning to stream audio from many of the Second Life sessions. You can get this audio live and in real time by clicking on the live feed at http://webheadsinaction.org

Comment by James O'Reilly on May 21, 2009 at 5:52pm

Virtual Learning Quality
http://virtual-learning-quality.ning.com/

Comment by Maria Rosario Di Mónaco on May 20, 2009 at 8:11am

Vance, James,

Thanks for your links, tips and suggestions. What I had in mind was mainly Elluminate or any other venue other than Second Life. Being a newbie myself at SL, I wouldn't dare to try it in an unfamiliar environment. Besides, I don't think a regular cybercafe would meet the necessary requirements to run the program. I'm not even sure they will allow access to Elluminate, for that matter.

Vance, unfortunately our group does not have access to a classroom or lab like the one you suggest. That's why we hold our monthly meetings in a cybercafe. Anyway, we are not such a big group, and next Saturday there'll be even fewer of us, since it's a "long weekend" here in Argentina because of the 25th national holiday. So I think I'll give it a try and experiment a bit. Even if we don't succeed in joining a session, I'm sure we'll all learn a lot in the process.

Let's see what happens. Thanks again for your support!

Comment by James O'Reilly on May 19, 2009 at 3:22pm

May I point you to this...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability_Maturity_Model
(by the US Dept. of Defense and Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh)

Check the assessment scale CMM Level 1-5, page 11

Capability Maturity Level 1: Initial

At maturity level 1, processes are usually ad hoc and chaotic. The organization usually does not provide a stable environment. Success in these organizations depends on the competence and heroics of the people in the organization and not on the use of proven processes. In spite of this ad hoc, chaotic environment, maturity level 1 organizations often produce products and services that work; however, they frequently exceed the budget and schedule of their projects. Maturity level 1 organizations are characterized by a tendency to over commit, abandon processes in the time of crisis, and not be able to repeat their past successes.

Comment by James O'Reilly on May 19, 2009 at 12:28pm

Could you please diagram the setup and structural configuration...
I mean the interaction Elluminate and Second Life.
Are you streaming Elluminate into SL so that only the avatars need
to teleport to the venue and watch what is happening?

Comment by James O'Reilly on May 19, 2009 at 11:55am

Try it

http://www.elluminate.com/support/index.jsp

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