Welcome to our blog!

This is a blog for the SA Innovations ‘i-youth’ project team to share what we are learning throughout the life of our project. The ‘i’ in our project name stands for immersive – and it’s an immersive learning environment that we are looking to provide for the youth work learners piloting this program with us!

In a nutshell, Tabor Adelaide, in partnership with the South Australian Baptist Union (SABU) will be developing online delivery for CHCYTH1C Work Effectively with Young People and CHCOHS301A Participate in Workplace Safety Procedures.

We would like the courses to be engaging and contemporary, thereby hopefully motivating and capturing the imagination of the trainee youth workers and leaders of the future. As we will be catering for a cohort of students generally more comfortable and familiar with gaming and the online environment (although this is certainly debatable!!), Second Life is thought to be an ideal tool to effectively engage and immerse the students. We’ll be creating scenarios for the students to role play.

In addition to the above, the Tabor Adelaide Youth Faculty run an Arts component within the Certificate IV in Youth Development utilising film making to assist with creative expression. This culminates in a film festival each year. As it is possible to make films in Second Life (Machinima) - the project team (along with a number of consultants and helpers!!) will be providing assistance to run a Machinima course for the students, thereby immersing the department in virtual worlds and Machinima and providing the students with an engaging and contemporary course!

The films created will be used as learning objects for the CHCYTH1C Work Effectively with Young People and CHCOHS301A Participate in Workplace Safety Procedures.

On top of the above... we’ll also be connecting and combining the lot using SLOODLE – an integration between Moodle and Second Life!

We also hope to connect regularly with the other 2 teams looking at Second Life / Sloodle – “Effective Communication - Virtually Anywhere” and “Remote Life Inworld” and we hope to meet shortly to share some more ideas - as well as supporting each other along project journey!

And introducing our team ........
Missy Oximoxi
Ariki Ranimo
Lucy Ronwood
Damian Manimbo
Lucille Lemondrop
Seera Bluebird
(Will post photos of avatars soon!!).

Cheers,
Trudy