VW+Questions

=Type of and which platform will depend on your learning goals= Do you want to provide students with a "space" in which to meet and collaborate? Do you want to expose the students - take them on a sort of field trip to a virtual world with a health related exhibit? Do you want to demonstrate virtual world teaching and learning by holding instructional activities in a virtual world? Do you want to immerse the students and have them create instructional content in a virtual world?

=And what pedagogical features of a virtual world would you like to use= Synchronicity Avatar embodiment Multiple simultaneous modes of communication 3d modeling tools Educational and professional community (meet with content area experts) Existing educational content Narrative Quests Rewards, experience points, win states Visualizations and models Simulations Role plays Conducting experiments