The teleconference session was very useful and informative during which a number of interesting concepts and phrases such as SL, SLENZ, MUVO, Researchware, PowerGramoTM and NVIVO were introduced and briefly explained.

Bronwyn had arranged for Michael Winter to present about the evaluation he conducted for the “Second Life” project.

I started my holiday last Friday (I am still on holiday) but did not want to miss the session. I joined the teleconference very early and Michael was already in the room. I greeted Michael but it seemed that he was setting up the audio wizard and was preparing for his presentation. Later Alex and Bronwyn joined the session. Then Jon, Rachel, Katie and Veronique joined the session.  Liz had some connection problems but was finally able to join the session.

At the beginning Michael introduced himself and it sounded that he had done a lot of interesting work. Later, he briefly introduced SL and talked about some related topics in terms of evaluation and e-learning. He displayed a YouTube video about Foundation Studies in Second Life - SLENZ but it seemed that the connection was not that good and we could not watch the video successfully. The video was displaying page by page. Bronwyn saved the situation and included displayed the link to the presentation. I retrieved the video and I did enjoy it. I also realized that I already knew one of the students who is doing a course at MIT. While I was watching the video, I was virtually interacting with the contents. It is an amazing video and I will definitely be telling my colleagues and students about the video.

Later Michael displayed a brilliant PowerPoint presentation about the evaluation he did. I really liked the contents. I also liked the various interactions triggered during the session.

Again, Bronwyn kindly recorded the session and it is available to retrieve, so I am not going to talk more.

The following screenshots are some important aspects of the PowerPoint presentation that I enjoyed greatly.