Our Kiwanis club made a new friend through the Web, Thynka Little (AKA LuAnn Phillips.) Club member, Member Leigh Zeitz, a University of Northern Iowa instructional technology professor, introduced Second Life to his fellow Rough Risers Kiwanis Club members. This was an opportunity for our club to enjoy a program that was technically broadcast from Vermont, but was set in the virtual world of Second Life.Thynka Little took us on a tour of her island where she taught farmers about pesticide and various skills that they would want to learn in her extension courses that she taught through Second Life. She said that some of her farmer students were hesitent about learning in a virtual world at first but most of them found that it was a useful and instructional medium through which to work.
The best part was the thank you gift that we gave Thynka Little at the end. Traditionally, the Kiwanis Rough Risers gives their presenters a Rough Risers coffee mug or golf balls. This time, we gave our presenter a virtual Rough Risers coffee mug for her to use while drinking her virtual coffee on her virtual island. 😉
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