News from Second Study and HyväYritys projects

hello,

Building all facilities on our Paijat-Hame Edu Island in Second Life has taken a lot of our time but it seems that we are now ready to implement the objectives of Hyväyritys project i.e. setting a place for our students to develop trade in this new virtual environment, which will be part of their Entrepreneurship studies.
2 pilot groups have been chosen by Salpaus teachers.
One group will start getting acquainted to Second Life October 2nd and the other group will start in December 2008.
Their scope of activities will be tourism and everything related to this branch.
6 teachers will be supervising their work and a technical team will be set up to attend them. This team will comprise of our two builders who helped us all along this summer. I will take part in that team as well.
Our two builders Epi and Jrs. Metall will work for CEC, a cooperative set up by Lahden ammattikorkeakoulu students. This cooperative will then invoice Salpaus for their work in our island.
Everything has to be thought in a different way, marketing, logistics, accounting etc. therefore documentation and following up will be crucial. We will put in place two kind of tools to carry out that task, blogs and Wikis.
WordPress technology will be used for our blog and Wiki Confluence for our Wiki.

Second Study
Second Life will be a very small part of all the tools used to implement the objectives of this project. The age limit and the technical requirements in terms of hardware are the main reasons for that.
Teachers and students/purples from the higher secondary and vocational education will use Web 2.0 tools, social media environments, blogs, wikis, etc.
Teachers have set up 8 different groups. More information on those groups can be founded at
http://ellu.phkk.fi/file.php/1464/Ritvan/Second_Study_pilottiryh_taulukko.doc .
Follow-up forms have been built both for teachers and students/purples.

Another great news!
Salpaus Further Education is organising a seminar dedicated to "Pedagogy in virtual worlds" whose focus will be Second Life - virtual world.
The seminar will be held in Lahti, Finland on October 17th.
You can now register: http://slseminaari.blogspot.com/

More news in October,
Georges