Orientation for the course 401591 "Supervision Internship" in the IBMan programme of the Berlin School of Economics and Law, SS 2011.

1. Supervision Internship [401591]
Course Orientation – Week One
Marcus Birkenkrahe [Birkenkrahe Aya]
Bruce Spear [Beave Burkhardt]
Johannes Radig [Johannes Edelmann]

2. Agenda
 Welcome & Overview
 WHAT: Course Objectives & Content
 HOW: In-World & Moodle Teaching Tools
 WHO: Introductions
 Next steps
 Discussion
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3. Welcome & Overview
 3rd term of this 100% virtual supervision course
 Designed to support you wherever you are
 5 credit points / 4 SWS / 54 + 96 = 150 hrs course load
 Lushly supported by three teachers, (almost) 24/7
 Relies on your cooperation and spirit of adventure!
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4. Course Objectives & Content
 Evaluate of your own experiences in a peer group
 Learn to communicate professionally in the work place
 Present your learning in a group setting
 Feedback check and techniques
 Communication training & role plays
 Presenting your case and coaching others
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5. Teaching Tools - Spaces
The Virtual HWR has a size of 13 ha and is
divided in different spaces. These are for learning:
Orientation
Groupwork
Auditorium
Feedback
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6. Teaching Tools – Orientation
 Orientation: treasure cave, school balloon on-site; guided
tour to off-site locations offering interactive experiences
 To train your own avatar, you have to visit this place and
try things out (you can also contact Johannes for a tour)
Cave: movement
Balloon: notecard training & fun Fountain: camera
instructions & simple
control training & fun
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7. Teaching Tools – Groupwork
 Group work: tables; SL group for voice/chat; shared
media walls for collaboration (GDocs, Etherpad).
 We'll try to keep it
simple throughout.
Shared media Don't hesitate to
collaboration
ask questions. And
Group
tables
don't be alarmed:
after a few weeks,
Viewer: you'll feel really at
instructions
home in your
Media: YouTube avatar.
& Twitter wall
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8. Teaching Tools - Auditorium
 Auditorium: media wall, viewers for lectures; a stage for
role playing; a Google Calendar for in-world events.
• The in-world sessions
• will usually begin with
Shared online
a short lecture whose
Calendar text will be broadcast
in chat, too. Be on
time & save your chats.
• We will perform some role
Stage for
Role playing plays mid-term to set
the stage for co-coaching
exercises.
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9. Teaching Tools - Feedback
 Feedback offline and online via the Opinionator using
prepared and improvised questions & discussion topics
 We normally close the session with a short survey
where your avatars can vote with their feet.
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10. Teaching Tools – Moodle Forum
 Engage in conversations with your peers & the lecturers
 Answer weekly questions & offer 2 or more responses
 End-of-term editing of best posts & short learning review
 Printout your contributions by 15 July 2011
> more information: http://brucespear.com/sl/
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11. Introductions
Your friendly lecturers: Marcus Birkenkrahe, Bruce Spear
Your friendly tutor for all things technical: Johannes Radig
Please introduce yourself:
– What's your real name? (display your real name)
– Where do you do your internship? (place & firm)
– What're your expectations for this course?
– What are your questions at this point (if any)?
Put a version of your answer into your moodle profile
together with your photo, please. Update your avatar
profile before you leave. Get the T-Shirt.
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12. Next steps
 Get your avatar feet wait by returning here if needed
 Await our posting the first week's question on Moodle
 Vote on „This was an interesting orientation session“
Photo: student avatars vote
by moving around in the
'opinionator', a 3D virtual
Instant survey object
(HWR Virtual Islands).
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