Our featured faculty member was Laurie Mullen. Laurie began her presentation with definitions of three types of field experiences: virtual, designed, and real. She discussed the use of Second Life as an experience in which students can feel embodied and represent themselves in various ways to others in the virtual environment.
Next, Laurie showed us how to move an avatar through some of the islands in Second Life. She emphasized that teacher educators might want to move beyond using new technologies as consumers and move into using them to produce or offer virtual field experiences.
Finally, Laurie referred to several helpful resources such as the ISTE Second Life site, the Horizon Report, and the work of Sarah Robbins, a Ball State instructor.
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