Schooled: Confessions of an

Educator on the Teen Grid

KJ Hax aka Yankee Sparker (rl: Kevin Jarrett)

StoryofMySecondLife.com

Iste Island Speaker Series Presentation, 26-Feb-2008

Roadmap

• In The Beginning…• Where we are & How we Got Here• About the Schome Park Project• What’s Gone Well• What Could Have Been Better• Key Learnings• Other Teen Grid Projects

In the beginning…

http://tinyurl.com/yska59

http://tinyurl.com/3xpvcx

http://tinyurl.com/2nb8ba

Where We Are…

About Schome

Park

http://www.schome.ac.uk/

Schome Park Projects• Governance of the island - wiki page and discussion

– Building Department - wiki page and discussion – Community Liaison - wiki page

• Educational Activities (strands)- – Archaeology - wiki page and discussion – Ethics and Philosophy - SPii wiki page, SNP wiki page and

discussion – Physics - wiki page and discussion and more – Language Lovers - Language Lab wiki page – Machinima – Readers and Writers - Writers' Corner wiki page – Research - wiki page and discussion – Media and Design - Editing the newsletter – Space - Our satellite proposal

• Other community activities- – Artificial Intelligence - AI workshop. and AI Wiki Page – Schome Marina - wiki page – Theme Park - Wiki Page – Skate Park - Wiki Page

Did I mention it’s

FREE?

What’s Gone Well…

What Could Have Been

Better…

Key Learnings…(our after-

school club)

1.Specific objectives = good2.Frequent meetings = good3.Expect home connectivity

issues, have alternatives4.Be virtually realistic5.Expect some fallout6.Keep the faith!

Other Teen Grid

Projects…

• Schome Parkhttp://schome.open.ac.uk

• EyeforYou Alliancehttp://eye4youalliance.youthtech.info

• Skoolaboratehttp://www.skoolaborate.com

• Global Kidshttp://www.holymeatballs.org

• Chris Smith’s Teen Grid Projects Listhttp://tinyurl.com/2stdvw

Q&A

Thank You!