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“Second Life” Exploring Virtual Worlds for Social Work Education“Second Life” Exploring Virtual Worlds for Social Work Education
Dr. Bob Vernon, Indiana University School of Social Work
Dr. Darlene Lynch, Ball State University Department of Social Work
Dr. Paul Freddolino, Michigan State University School of Social Work
Dr. Lorrie Greenhouse Gardella, St. Joseph College
Ms. Susan Tenby, TechSoup.org
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“Second Life” Exploring Virtual Worlds for Social Work Education
Dr. Bob Vernon, Gabrielli Rossini
Dr. Darlene Lynch, Helene Stransky
Dr. Paul Freddolino, Raoul Congrejo
Dr. Lorrie Greenhouse Gardella, Sunny Bamaisin
Ms. Susan Tenby, Glitteractica Cookie
Contact: http://hsmedia.biz
Web 2.0…
Today…• Just what IS “Second Life”• You and your “avatar”• Communications in “SL”• Potentials for Social Work
Education• Implications and findings so far• How to function in a virtual world
Just what IS “Second Life”People voluntarily create online virtual worlds...
TravelArt/museumsFantasy/role play
SportsTheater
Shopping
WorshipAgencies/Services
Nasties
You and your “avatar”You can change your avatar at will…
This is the same avatar!
Control over Dress Gender Age Race Ethnicity Ability Species!
You and your “avatar”You can move your avatar at will…
Gestures
You and your “avatar”You can move your avatar at will…
Gestures
Walking
You and your “avatar”You can move your avatar at will…
Gestures
Walking
Flying
You and your “avatar”You can move your avatar at will…
This becomes easy with practice.
Gestures
Walking
Flying
Teleporting
CommunicationsWith individuals, groups, and objects…
Chat/Typing
CommunicationsWith individuals, groups, and objects…
Chat/Typing
IM Voice
Languages
Groups
Meetings
You can record everything through copying and pasting text, taking pictures, and making movies…
Potentials for SW Education
Diversity
Potentials for SW Education
DiversityDiversityHBSE
Potentials for SW Education
DiversityHBSEJustice and Risk
Potentials for SW Education
DiversityHBSEJustice and RiskValues and Ethics
Potentials for SW Education
DiversityHBSEJustice and RiskValues and EthicsResearch
Potentials for SW Education
DiversityHBSEJustice and RiskValues and Ethics
Policy and Services
Research
Potentials for SW Education
DiversityHBSEJustice and RiskValues and Ethics
Policy and Services
Research
Field and Training
Potentials for SW Education
DiversityHBSEJustice and RiskValues and Ethics
Policy and Services
Research
Field and Training
Practice
There are potentials for all of the eight EPAS curriculum areas!
Implications so far…Adaptable to multiple teaching agendas
micro-macro, generalist or concentrations, training, (?) field
Practice diversitylocal-global-virtual
Access issuesconnection, hardware, ADA
Liability & riskuncharted territory
The universitylocal-global-virtual
Functioning in a virtual world• Remember what the Web was like in 1994?
This is about as challenging!
• Be prepared for a belligerent learning curve with crummy documentation!
• Cut yourself some slack! Your students too!
• Get a mentor! Make friends with librarians, teckies, and gamers!
• Connect in both “SL” and “RL” peers, listservs, wikis, blogs, youtube!
Potential conversations• Theoretical concepts
Social and individual identity, neighborhoods, control
• Practice concepts Professional boundaries, self-awareness, professional use of self
• Research concepts Participant observation, reflective ethnography
• Degrees of abstraction The “medical textbook illustration” issue
• Implications for distance education Many distance education possibilities
Second Lifehttp://www.secondlife.com