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Discusion Group Title: Remote Participants Making Use of Third Party Services
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The streaming video service was provided by a company called Veodia and the virtual reality environment was in Second Life service. The slides you viewed were probably hosted on the Slideshare service. You have therefore been making use of a variety of third party services.

Topics for discussion:

• Have you encountered any problems using these services?
• What would be the benefits if the streaming video, access to slides and virtal reality environment were provided in a managed environment (e.g. hoisted by a JISC Service)? What would be the disadvantages?
• Would you be willing to make use of these remotely-hosted services to participate in a future event? If so, what suggestions would you make to improve the experience?

• Second Life provides a social network, as do Facebook and MySpace. To what extend should institutional policies or advice regarding social networking services also cover Second Life? And is there an argument that, just as a JISC-funded study into student attitudes to Facebook was given a headline in the Guardian of "Get Out Of MySpace!", institutions should stay out of Second Life?

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