Not quiet there yet...
The day began with a workshop on 'Emerging Collaborative Technologies for Teaching' for the students in the Master of Education Technology at RUPP. We (one colleague and her husband) started with a questionnaire and talked with the 13 students. Most of them are teachers in the provinces of Cambodia. They spend their week-ends in Phnom Penh to study. The fact is that they teach students of 15 to 20 years old in schools that do not have computers and do not have Internet. Lots of them do not have emails. I know the Cambodian context but I came for a presentation on Google Docs, Blogs, Wikis and Second Life and how they can be applied to teaching. RUPP has no Internet connection either. I showed videos of social networking, Google docs, Blogs, Wikis and Second Life (all downloaded on my laptop). The In Plain English videos of Commons Craft are wonderful!
I believe that it is not because these students do not have the technology available that they cannot know what exists out there. Like one of their professors would say: "It gives them hope!!!".
Students were delighted. They liked being involved and the videos... They will never forget that there is a "Second Life"...
The material that was presented as well as the conclusions of the questionnaire are available at:
http://pacerupp2008.wikispaces.com/
Is Angkor Wat in Second Life? and when will RUPP be in Second Life?
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