After a lots of surfing I came across a Blog written by a teacher - yes I have lost the address - but she led me to a site called `The Island of Jokaydia (Joykadia.com,2009-1)`, it is a Virtual World Education site, where Avatars exist as the alter egos of educators. The surprising part of this discovery led me to a Wiki (Jooykadia.com, 2009-2) attached to this site developed also by a teacher. A Virtual World of Education exists in cyber-space, follow the link (Joykadia.com, 2009-3), it is a Flcikr slide show of some of this world.
How could Avatar technology be used in my Teaching Discipline areas, Hospitality and Home Economics?
My first thought was the conceptual framework of Kearsley and Shneiderman (1998), that is relate, create and donate. Imagine hospitality students collaborating in the designing of a restaurant in one of these Virtual worlds where Avatars exist, and not just imagining it, but designing it from scratch, how it will look, what they will call it, interior decorations, kitchen set ups, menus, costing on the menus the list can go on. The point is students could do this as a group without the outlay of any finance and come up a Virtual Restaurant. That actually would be the most exciting experience.
The students would be relating it to the real world, creating a restaurant that could exist in the real world using Avatar technology and then allowing the rest of the world to view what they have create and worked together to develop.
Dominique
References:
Kearsley, G., & Shneiderman, B. (2008). Engagement theory: a framework for technology-based taching and learning. Retrieved September 1, 2009, from
http://home.sprynet.com/~gkearsley/engage.htm
Joykadia.com. (2009). Retrieved September 1, 2009, from
(1) - http://jokaydia.com/category/education/
(2) - http://sleducation.wikispaces.com/ourresources?responseToken=06d666b7830a648d3b7032950752512e6
(3) - http://www.flickr.com/photos/jokay/sets/72157612171568581/show/
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