I woke up very early last Saturday to follow a couple of sessions in jokaydia Unconference. First Jass Easterman told how she has been using SL with volunteer students. She had some very good points of how to build a lesson in SL. One aspect was students with disabilities and we heard that some students used Dragon Naturally Speaking within SL.Secondly there was a session about "Sustainability in and of Second Life". Leigh Blackall lead a discussion of renewable energy technologies, ecological footprint, environmental organizations and how to combine environmental issues in SL with RL (see an excellent video). It was nice to see that avatars are not just nerds, but at least try to think environmental aspects as well :)
The first session was lead only by chat discussion! That was kind of weird first, but actually it was quite pleasant. You had time to read the presentation and you could also save it and all the useful links afterwards. Whereas the second session, as the most of lessons I've seen in SL, used voice chat. That's also nice, but you must concentrate more intensively, fix first the voice level for each speaker and you don't usually record the session. Both cases have its' good sides.
It was interesting to take part in the Australian unconference where there were around 25 participants from Australia, North America and Europe. We'll see how popular the Finnish equivalent Konfabulaari 2008 will be!
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