Timetable for Art and Design pilots

Date, timings and students	Aims	Activities	Outcomes - activity	Evaluation instruments (and who responsible)	Outcomes - evaluation
Before May pilots Pre pilot meeting with A&D students - 28th April	Gather background information on student prior knowledge. Gather background on student expectations for the course/sessions	n/a Configure standalone OpenSim on all units (Tuesday 22nd April)	n/a	Pre-pilot Questionnaire Document - DW	Student profile data table Data on the student expectations for using a MUVE in their learning and teaching
WEEK 1
Tuesday 6th May 08 - Location H705, Civic Quarter - Research room - OpenSim day 1 10 students 1pm start. Afternoon session Location H705, Civic Quarter - Research room DW in Leeds	Orientation Learn basic competencies	Welcome - Intros OpenSim basics (Interface scaffolding) Light touch instruction, and discovery through experimentation to develop core competencies: Drip feed approach. Little and often feeding of core skills, as appropriate to the group. Navigation Walking Flying Camera Control Building Making prims Scaling Rotating Moving Snap to grid Duplicating Linking Texture upload and application Recording Snapshot to disk. 'Quest' based skills acquisition. Build the tallest tower you can. Make a gallery from textures you upload. Make a den to hide in. - Other tasks.***	Students are able to navigate in-world Can build and manipulate objects at an basic level Can upload images/textures into SL Can take basic snapshots to disk.	In-world observation: taking notes, capture via snapshot, capture via video Interview 5pm - 7pm Gather data together.	Coded documents drawing out: difficulties using environment, level of student engagement, success in achieving tasks for the session, student self-assessment of their SL competencies.
Wednesday 7th May Location H705, Civic Quarter - Research room Identity workshop and Second Life induction - day 2 10am start. All day. DW in Leeds	Understanding identity in virtual worlds. Initial understanding of SL culture, SL etiquette and so on.	10 - 11 Open building skills session in OpenSim to start the day. More building quests. *** Individual responsive support for building skills. 11-12 Identity workshop - (Real Life workshop) Current SL surnames 'Identity Game' (Identity scaffolding) See identity game document. 12-1 Second Life sign-up. Allow an hour in anticipation of usual sign-up problems due to multiple use of IP addresses. PM 2 - 5 Second Life - Orientation island Observe how students get on so a comparison can be made with our previous induction experiences that lacked the OpenSim pre-induction. During the Orientation Island experience: Invite each avatar to join the LeedsMet group. Give each avatar some money. Give each avie a bunch of landmarks. Offer teleport to group to 'Join me in LeedsMet' Allocate each student their own plot to build on. By now they should have some basic building skills. Get them to stake their claim by plonking something down on their plot. (The virtual studio-workshop learning environment.) Set 'Home'. Sort out e-porfolio auto sign up thing (Graham/Kisa) Snapshot to the e-portfolio tool. Discussions board on tool about venturing out. Encourage avies to venture out together, recording their exploits. (Critical reflection)	Students are able to make informed decisions about initial identity construction. Students can engage with the wider Second Life environment. Students can edit appearance. Students can post snapshots to a web based tool. Students can take ownership of land/virtual studio space.	Observations.
Thursday 8th H701 Open access or student's own computers Second Life - day 3.		Independent study - let the students do what they want - explore, work on the brief etc. Encourage them to keep recording to the e-portfolio tool. Kisa and Cubist work on Leeds Met island on Art project (Master apprentice) In world support and mentoring. Optional daytime SL event/quest Optional nighttime SL event/quest		Be around in-world to keep an eye on things and record events. Conduct interviews? Kisa to organise events programme.
Friday 9th. Old Broadcasting House East Street Arts talk on Second Life - Day 4.		Graham and East Street Arts deliver a public presentation about art and Second Life. (Conceptualisation) Graham at OBH, Ian/Cubist in-world if needed.
WEEK 2
Monday 12th - H705 Research room - Day 5. 10am start. Projects launch.		AM 10-12 Open support session in Research room. 1 - 5 Research room Ian and Graham Introduce project briefs. (Activity) Project 1 Build a shrine to your avatar. Individual work. See project brief 1 document Project 2 International Symposium on Electronic Art Reality Jam Collaborative work. See project brief 2 document Discussion. (Dialogue) Informal ongoing individual support. Blended workshop Basic scripting workshop.
Tuesday 13th - H701 - Second Life - day 6. 10am start.		One to one roving support in H701. (Dialogue and activity. Zone of Proximal development)
Wednesday 14th - Friday 16th. H701 - Second Life - day 7, 8 & 9.		Independent study - let the students do what they want - explore, work on the brief etc. Encourage them to keep recording to the e-portfolio tool. Kisa and Cubist work on Leeds Met island on Art project (Master apprentice) In world support and mentoring. Optional daytime SL event/quest Optional nighttime SL event/quest
WEEK 3
Monday 19th - H701 Teaching room - Second Life - day 10. 10am start. SW and/or MPG in Leeds?		Meet up in H701 teaching room. Review of progress. Intermediate skills acquisition class, based on need of group and individuals. Optional basic/intermediate scripting class.
Tuesday 20th - H701 - Second Life - day 11. 10am start. SW and/or MPG in Leeds? DW in Leeds		One to one roving support in H701. Interviews?
Wednesday 21st & Thursday 22nd H701 or student's own computers - Second Life - day 12, 13.		Kisa and Cubist work on Leeds Met island on Art project In world support and mentoring.		Use this time for evaluation? Cut off point for competition/sale time for buying finished things?
Friday 23rd. Day 14.		Project deadline 12 noon. Award prizes/Linden dollars. End of project party?

SW comment: this is great to have such a detailed timetable of activities. What we need to factor in from our own discussions are: time to capture prior knowledge and expectations of the students; capture the activities during the session and finally get some raw feedback at the end. My suggestion is that an observer is present during some of the classes to do this and we run it as a form of ethnography. We then have a choice ... that person can then also go in world and observe the activities and take snapshots and video or we can have another team member go in-world.

DW comment: I agree but we probably need a very quick questionnaire to begin with. We will need to decide exactly who is where on what day and what they are attempting to capture. We also need a final discussion/seminar type session to see if we can get some interesting feedback.

IT comment: I've changed the original plan, bringing SL induction to day 2.

IT comment: I've changed it all again. There is a history of previous documents, right?

SW: I need to check whether we have the original - is it important? We do have your original posting to the MUVEJISC group?

IT comment: I've changed it all yet again. Now it's right.

Notes:

Informal discussions over the course of the pilot form part of the evaluation.