Dear BGSU Faculty, Staff, and Grad Students,

It is time again to apply for a wonderful Learning Community at The Center for Teaching and Learning!

Here are the links to the:

• 2009-10 Second Life Learning Community (SLLC) Proposal/Info sheet
• Applications for this year’s CTL LC. Please complete, print, sign and return a copy of your application to:
  • Kris Sautter, CTL, 201 University Hall by Friday, August 7, 2009

Information about other LC’s can be found at http://bgsu.edu/ctl/page30860.html

CTL Learning Community Members receive $250 in Professional Development funds each semester.

About the SLLC:
The BGSU Second Life Learning Community provides an opportunity for faculty, graduate students, and staff to develop effective strategies for pedagogy and scholarship using virtual worlds. Through collaboration, discussion, and shared discovery, the learning community will focus on ways in which teaching and learning can be enhanced through the use of avatars, immersion, interactive learning objects, and social interaction in the virtual world.

Members will:
•    Collaborate, interact, and support other faculty members interested in exploring ways of integrating Second Life in to their pedagogical and scholarship goals.
•    Engage in discussions with interdisciplinary learning community members.
•    Discover and share successful pedagogical strategies.
•    Investigate possible research methodologies and topics related to virtual worlds.

Anthony Fontana’s Art 101: Intro to Art online class in Second Life has begun their summer semester. The first thing the class learned to do was learn to use Second Life using a number of tutorials now on the BGSU Second Life Wiki.

http://secondlife.bgsu.wikispaces.net/

During the second week, students took a field trip to the Sistine Chapel re-creation on Vasar Island. Check out the pictures below! Each student was to find a composition that was an good example of the vocabulary the students were introduced to in class. Each student then communicated to the rest of the class how  they saw the term used in the image. The students are keeping blogs to document their explorations of art on the web and in Second Life using the BGSU blogging system (blogs.bgsu.edu).

art101 sl pics

Click this link to see more pics.