AVATAR movie & metaphor

Pick a metaphor, religious, scientific, cultural or political and your sure to find it layered in this block buster of a movie somewhere.

Neovet couldn't help but see some parallels with the idea of running around in the brain of a giant blue elf warrior and vocational training through elearning. The best part being that Jake Sully can do the impossible thanks to a virtual, (be it real) environment.

Jake can now walk in the virtual world and learn a whole new culture, language and set of skills. Will this re-inspire second life learning? Probably not, but 3D, AVATAR based social media and elearning is only moments away if your following the latest moves by Google to make the browser a doorway to a "Pandorian" web experience through it's O3D api.

Find me a good lesson plan

James Dalziel has written an excelent chapter in the new publication from MIT "Opening Up Education",( (available for download HERE



This is a good read for anybody interested in how we can better share content and also teaching processes across the web. As James suggest, there is plenty of shared content, but not many shared experiences of how teachers can use that content to help learners and/or sequence lessons.

There is nothing like a good quality lesson template, that can be used again and again for different lessons just by changing the content but maintaining the teaching process. but Alas, Google away and see if you can find anyhthing worth using.

ePresence

Have i just found a quality free video coference tool?