Foundation Studies in Second Life - SLENZ

The Skill Mastery Hyperdome is a step into the future, an environment in which students can learn, develop and practice interview skills that will help them progress on their career pathways and achieve their life goals. T...

The Skill Mastery Hyperdome is a step into the future, an environment in which students can learn, develop and practice interview skills that will help them progress on their career pathways and achieve their life goals. The Hyperdome was built for Foundation Studies (Bridging Education) as part of the Second Life Education New Zealand Project slenz.wordpress.com Foundation students who will use this build are preparing to enter academic and/or training courses as diverse as nursing, teaching, business, police, travel and tourism, IT, engineering, and social work. Foundation Studies provides the basic building blocks and the scaffolding to enable students to enter and succeed in their selected career pathway. Acitivites provided in this build are designed to enhance communication skills, specifically the skills needed in an interview situation. Rapungakore ("...you have come to the right place"), our clothing store, is part of the Hyperdome. Here students will select appropriate clothing for an interview. Irrespective of their ultimate career goal all students will need to develop interview skills and strategies. This environment allows students to experience virtual interviews, to take on the roles of both interviewer and interviewee, and to develop confidence in answering and asking questions in a professional manner. The opportunity to rehearse variations of the interview scenario will lead to further enlightenment through reflective evaluation and deliberation on