This was an interesting event to take part in. We created a short video showing some of our work in Second Life concentrating on the issue of how long it takes people to get used to a system before they can begin to get something out of it. The video was a group task, Virtually Linked - a London based media company creating a Second Life London, Lawal Mohammed - one of my MSc students, and me making the visuals and editing it all together. I rather stupidly decided to upgrade to Windows 7 just before begining the work so the final product was made in great haste. However, the whole process was done without the three of us meeting, everything was swapped via online repositories and the planning was all online too.
The conference as a whole is well worth looking at. http://k12onlineconference.org/ Some obscure Australian FE colleges are doing some realy fantastic work but there was perhaps far too much technology used to run the conference.
As presenters we had to load our videos to two online sites, then create entries in the Ning, create forums and put the embed video code in a whole variety of places. At best it was confusing and some presenters apparently needed a lot of help. I think this is a comon e-learning problem - we want one faciltiy form one system and another from a very different one. Then we attempt to 'seamlessly' link them!
I've experienced similar problems as a student on a course with Cornwall College. They used Second Life, Ning, MOODLE and a web site! Repeatedly students would say - "just tell me where to go to find out what to do."
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