Friendly greetings from Paijat Hame Edu Island

Dear reader,

I am proud to say that the seminar dedicated to Second Life - Virtual World and organised by Koulutuskeskus Salpaus Oct 17 was a success.
A great teamwork to organise and implement it, thanks to all.

75 attended physically the seminar , we had 18 avatars following the morning interventions on our island.
If we add the speakers and the support team, around 120 people assisted this conference.
Hannu Heinonen, vice principal of Salpaus was the Chairman of the seminar. The island Paijat Hame Edu was introduced to the audience by Reijo Pöyhönen, Manager of Education in Salpaus.
We had great speakers from the Finnish Board of Education, University of Applied Sciences of Laurea, University of Joensuu, University of West Scotland and the company Languagelab.com from London selling English tuition in Second Life.
In the afternoon, 3 panelists from Lahti University of Applied Sciences and Salpaus discussed on Entrepreneurship and interacted with the audience.

Great news also from the sea this week!
Three Finnish islands joined forces to shape the first Finnish virtual archipielago ever...!
Paijat Hame Edu Island joined Edufinland Oct 21 and the University of Joensuu Island joined us Oct 22.

All the best,
Jorgito

A new world for our students - Facing new challenges

Friendly greetings from the Metaverse!

Our students made their first steps in the Metaverse i.e Second Life last week under the supervision of their teachers.
A fascinating new world for them if I refer to their first comments which can be seen at
http://slhyvayritys.blogspot.com/
Time has been given to them in order to get acquainted to this new dimension, for them to get the suitable clothes, hair... but not only. They got acquainted to various places in Second Life and started chatting with other residents.
Now our enthuastic students will be taken to think about trading in Second Life.
Particular emphasis will be given to market study and what kind of ideas could be implemented.
Technical support has been provided to students and teachers as the platform of the SL viewer can be challenging for non IT experts.
As well marketing tips have been given on how to start business trading in the virtual world and what can be done in terms of advertising free of charge in SL.

I will endeaviour to write Marketing tips in Second Life in the next future as there is obviously a need for that.

I introduced the Second Study project in an International Seminar held in Helsinki Oct 1, 2008 "Grasping the Future".
Second Life is one of the tools which could be used during the course of the project among teachers of the upper secondary and vocational schools of Päijät-Häme Region.
I used that medium to show ppt slides about the project. From the few comments reported to me afterwards, this new kind of presentation "In-World" was highly appreciated, innovative and different.

All the best,
Jorgito Arado

PS Meet me in the metaverse: Paijat Hame Edu Island