Teaching Maritime Knowledge in Second Life
Sailing in Second Life
 Many real life sailors sail a Taco in SL, the famous sail
simulation. Talking to them you will hear: If only we had had
something like that when we learnt to sail, it would all have
been so much easier.
Navigation classes in SL
Why don't you go on with this idea and provide real, true
navigation classes on this platform?
We, as an adult education institute, do that since early 2008
with great success. And it's great fun!
Ships, lighthouses, radio equipment, all can be built in SL
and used for teaching, interactive and free to use for the
students.
Teaching Maritime Knowledge in the Virtual 3D World of
Second Life
Walking on a sea map, inspect all the buoys in nature size,
that's not possible in a real life classroom. But it's easy in SL.
This is learning with all senses; students listen, hear, and
see, and with their avatars they even get a feeling about
what they learn.
My best example is that of the mercator projection, used for
sea maps.
In real life teaching this is hard to teach. In SL all the avatars
know how to attach a texture to an object. So if I give them
the texture of the earth and they apply it to a rectangle and
to a sphere … all is done almost without further explanation.
All information, classes and events on our vhs Sim in Second Life are only in German!
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