SMEA goes Second Life

Nordplus SMEA-project / Somedi 2.0 - Social Media for Senior Citizens

SMEA group (Social Media Education for Adults) had a project meeting in Helsinki between 29th of Nov to 1st of Dec. Participants were practically introduced as Second Life users by morning training in Helsinki Adult Education Centre (AEC) on Monday the 30th. Mr. Juhana Mykrä had an honor as a travel guide in the virtual adventure in the physical class room, Helsinki AEC's Open Learning Centre Aino.

After couple of hours training participants got the basic skills on how to move avatar, how to fly, how to get friends, how to communicate, how to change environmental settings, how to create landmarks for teleporting, how to teleport from place to place, how to use in-world search to find places, events, users etc.

Previous SMEA Meeting was in Tallinn (read more about that meeting)

> Second Life Quickstart Quide (PDF-file 2013 kt)
> SMEA project site under Lemon Project

SMEA Meeting in Tallinn

Nordplus SMEA-project / Somedi 2.0 - Social Media for Senior Citizens

Presentations about social medias and Helsinki City Adult Education Centre's Somedi project in SMEA (Social Media for Adults) Meeting 2009 September, 28th. Meeting venue was the Finnish Institute in Tallinn.

SMEA project aims at increasing information and deepening understanding of the cultural and social change made by social media and community services which are available on the Internet. SMEA aims also at improving the skills of adult educators and journalists to professionally benefit from social media.

> What is Social Media? (PDF-file, 2400kt)
> Social Media in Adult Education: Case Somedi 2.0 -project (PDF-file, 920kt)