... simulation hosted within Second Life. He's also working in collaboration with the nursing school at nearby Centralia ... which reproduce life-threatening conditions in a safe ‘virtual' environment. I've written about Second Life before and it seems to me with the work of simulation pioneers like John Miller, the potential of Second Life as a simulator are being slowly unveiled. I contacted John Miller in Second Life (his avatar's name is JS Vavoom) and he let me ... out John Miller's nursing simulator but you don't have a Second Life account? No worries! John has made a video tour ...

... be buzzing about you too. That's what has occurred on Second Life (SL) in the 2007 calendar year . Maybe there's been some buzz about Second Life (SL) in distance education circles for awhile now but the massive increase in users is ... subject would be useful before continuing on with this blog post. I have been a casual SL user for the last couple of ... some interest in synchronous simulation technologies. However, if I were teaching a graduate-level chemistry course that ... ? Ten more years? Who knows. For now, I view it as 100% experimental - it is simply an intriguing social simulation ...

The Second Life wiki of the NMC campus Second Life, and virtual worlds in general, are high on the hype curve this ... it has a place for e-Learning. Second Life is an easy target for shoot-from-the-hip media articles, and it's proponents ... participants will share the experiences and lessons learned from the New Media Consortium's activities in Second Life, starting in ... Life education landowner (50+ sims). In this session, you will learn: * An inside look at Second Life culture and ... interaction and creativity in Second Life * How an organization can effectively conduct meetings and events in ...

... flipping virtual switches in the virtual world of Second Life. The University of Maryland simulated a highway emergency ... after the person watches them being manufactured in the virtual world of Second Life. (see Virtual Jeans=Real Jeans ... Calling a meeting to order...sort of. The other day, a blog reader sent me an email asking about Immersive ... content to facilitate the learning. Immersive Learning includes the concepts of games, online Simulations and Virtual ... with simulations/scenarios and 36% plan to do more with serious games. There is still going to be a steep ...

With much talk and hype about Second Life and the benefits that it can have for creating interactive learning environment, why might begin to wonder where the examples of using Second Life are. For an excellent use case of Second Life, I would refer readers to Dr. Karl Kapp's recent blogs over the summer about a class that he conducted entirely in Second Life (and also integrated some Web 2.0 technologies). Throughout the summer, he offered excellent tips and trials of conducting the class. For those who think that Dr. Kapp may be over-hyping a game (of for those who see games as a ...

Learning Gets a Second Life Presenter: Anders Gronstedt, Gronstedt Group Digital natives spend more time playing video ... (Cisco for example) Weekly meetings in Second Life. - Sound now available in second life!!!! Can express self through ... figure it out. - Have seen emergency responder training in 2nd life. Second Life and Training - 1200 educational ... helping instructors do this. - Second life has own scripting language - Most of this is one-time development. A ... where we all learn from everyone. (Web 2.0) - See in wikis, blogs and podcasts Podcasting on the go - there is ...

In the corporate learning conference organised by George Siemens, Steve Mahaley was second to give a presentation on using virtual worlds for education. Education was defined in this presentation as a corporate business strategy to optimize work. Steve gave some examples of education in virtual worlds (he used the Second Life environment). One of his ... . My own thoughts on using virtual worlds as a means of education: - great for getting experience with simulations ... mentioned that they could not blog or go to virtual environments from their office. Which meant that most of them were ...

Clark Aldrich's recent post on LCB - The Learning Circuits Blog: Second Life is not a teaching tool - has me wondering what he thinks a "teaching tool" is? Having said all of that, Second Life, as is, is not a teaching tool. It is ... from something: mostly, I worry that educational simulations will be lumped together with Second Life Not sure the point he's making. If someone scripts a simulation in Second Life, does that not count or something? No matter what Clark says - Second Life is a teaching tool. I personally believe that the next generation of Second Life that gets ...

Monday, 18 December 2006 Educators explore Second Life online In a special series on "Welcome to the future", CNN reports on educators using Second life. The story talked about The three-dimensional ... Nesson, who leads a class jointly offered by Harvard Law School and Harvard Extension School in the world of "Second Life." Frankly, I dont see the value of holding a regular class in Second life. A real good use of Second Life I know of ... taught a course in Department of Commerce where the entire course was run within Second Life and course participants ...

If you are still wondering what all the fuss is about with Second Life , and you're not the type of learner to simply get in and play around, then read this blog post and listen to the interview that is there as well. "Doctors will get a small dose of content, but they will then have to address a patient scenario related to hypertension and diabetes." Also, check out the 2L Educators Wiki for more information about other educational activities occuring "inworld". I ... very cool!  Perhaps in the Medical simulation some of the "small dose of content" could be delivered via ...

Corporation 585 7.99 Flashform Rapid eLearning Ski.. Rapid Intake 48 7.90 Second Life Linden Research, Inc. 19 7.87 Raptivity ... eLearning Technology Tony Karrers eLearning Blog on e ... Software Simulation Tools : eLearning Technology Software Simulation Software has definitely been changing since I originally posted this. Ive recently added some ... satisfaction among tools that fall into categories related to software simulation: screen capture, electronic performance ...

... taught in Second Life. For more information, see: Medical Modeling & Simulation A Typology of ... stenting: a new paradigm for procedural training Anne Meyer Medical Centre Blog about the Second Life medical course Top 10 Medical Sites in Second Life A video about the Heart Murmur Sim in Second Life A video about Virtual Social Worlds and the Future of Learning A video about using Second Life for training ... production can be lowered by using already existing virtual worlds such as Second Life, a virtual world with a ...

... a great discussion. (See The Real World, Second Life and Facebook/MySpace ...read the comments to see our points of ... discussed the book, the boomer/gamer knowledge gap and the blog book tour. Have a listen. Then on day two Tom King over at ... Matters . Also, check out his stop on the tour Blog Book Tour Stop: Gadgets, Games and Gizmos talks about how kids provide ... they will out "gadget, game and gizmo" you. The week ended with Phil Charron from Learning Simulations leaving two ... of it...brilliant.) His second tour stop is, simple enough, GGG4L-Blog Book Tour II . Also, an honorable mention ...

... quot;fu... From where do educational simulations used in acad... Might Second Life be the Common Interface to ... 28.9.07 Simulation Examples by Genre I have gathered some of the examples of sims and organized them into Genres (simulation learning models), that would otherwise be sprinked throughout this blog. The links to the examples ... quickly unless reinforced, either by real-life or a high fidelity simulation. While content that seeks to drive ... Games and Simulations How the most valuable content will be constructed and engaged, because you cant learn to ...

... sparked a great discussion. (See The Real World, Second Life and Facebook/MySpace ...read the comments to see our ... Second Week on day six, Enspire Learning's Corporate Blog featured the book and a brief discussion of the material ... Well the Blog Book Tour is finally over and what a great experience. Here is a recap of all the stops. If you are ... book's web site, Gadgets, Games and Gizmos to learn more. I want to thank all of the people who took time to blog about ... Schlenker . He and I discussed the book, the boomer/gamer knowledge gap and the blog book tour. Then on day two Tom ...

Second Life and ProtoSphere (how cool is my job?) The class is focused on designing effective instruction in a 3D ... reporting" here is a great posting by Clark Aldrich of why Second Life (metaverses in general) are not good learning platforms...read the comments as the discussion progresses in an interesting fashion. Top Ten Missing Features of Second Life as ... Roadmap Overview Article titled: Another Life: Virtual Worlds as Tools for Learning Article titled Defining and Understanding Virtual Worlds Games and Learning? Getting Serious Blog by ProtoSphere founder. Ron Burns Like Fish ...

Last Summer Second Life was all the rage in the popular media. In fact, one of the most linked (and found) pages on this blog are the Second Life Tutorials  ( more SL posts ). However, as much as SL gathered media attention, the bigger interest for most of us was the discipline of engineering simulation and data visualization. While conducting some research recently, I became aware of an excellent visualization seminar series from Duke University. Like most ... Learning Wiki . Please see these updated wiki sections: Software Engineering Learning Blogs and ...

Web 2.0 Tools Second Life and Learning Software Simulation eLearning (w/ links to Tools) Captivate File Size Tricks for Software Training via Simulations Do You WANT an LMS? Does a Learner WANT an LMS? How Do People Interact with Blogs? eLearning 1.0 vs. 2.0 - Help Needed Stephen Downes is Wrong? Is It Really Cool? Better Questions ... 2.0 / Add-ins & Mash-ups Clark Aldrich - "Second Life is not a teaching tool" Learning Trends Point To and ... 2.0? First Time Visitor Guide Top Ten Reasons To Blog and Top Ten Not to Blog Rapid eLearning Tools ...

Brilliant e-learning or rather Learning 2.0. Here is a quick tutorial on How to Build Tiny Prims in Second Life . I view ... Life. This can be used for many different training applications using the world of Second Life as a platform for creation ... for PA DEP . On the left click on Interactive Course Tutorial . Games and Simulations Here is a link to a number of casual games, simulation software and general learning games. It is on the Games and Simulations page of the web site ... "spice up" your e-learning. Take a few minutes and browse the content. Clark Aldrich's blog entry for the big ...

... times but we never seem to get together face-to-face. He has a posting titled Second Life in Bloomsburg, PA where he discusses the Second Life class done at Bloomsburg this summer and gets some great reactions from some of his readers ... blogosphere. Recently Cammy and I have been having some discussions about Second Life and...in some cases, we didn't always agree on the conclusion (friendly discussions mind you) so we arranged a tour of the MSIT Second Life island and we had a great time! It was a lot of virtual fun. You can read about her experience in Plodding Along in Second Life .

... of looking at data. This is how I led off my earlier post : "Last Summer Second Life was all the rage in the popular media. In fact, one of the most linked (and found) pages on this blog are the Second Life Tutorials  ( more ... engineering simulation and data visualization." Welcome New York Times Visitors. Here are some key ...

Build Tiny Prims in Second Life . I view this as e-learning since the person watching the video is getting instruction on how to build in the world of Second Life. This can be used for many different training applications using the world of Second Life as a platform for creation of the learning. Here is a link to a blog entry (another form of informal ... (collection of many training-related blogs) MSIT Second Life Wiki Industry Web Sites and ... Aldrichs blog entry for the big question has a great list of games and simulations that you need to check ...

... speed. We need to figure something out. Teaching a course in Second Life. Determining the best places to focus my ... students in the Second Life course will teach me things I never even thought about (as my students always do.) Gadgets ... The Learning Circuits Blog Question for December has been posted. The questions this month are: What will you ... about the ideas, trends and innovations shaping the field of learning and e-learning. I started my blog in September 2006. That was a great event for me. Again, belated thanks to Waleed . I met some great online folks through blogging ...

... science2.0 (3) SCoPE (5) scorm (1) second life ... photography-microscopy allow us to develop simulations and animations that imitate actions that are normally performed in ... use of these animations and simulations. The simulation can be seen here . For the diagnosis of tick-borne ... except for focusing. The use of the virtual microscope is explained in the simulation itself. No special knowledge for operation is required. We are proud of this one, the brains behind this simulation is Maxime Madder, a great ...

Software Simulation eLearning (w/ links to Tools) 1,724 2 11 Second Life and ... Second Life and Learning 837 4 11 Shift in eLearning from Pure ... Given the nomination , I'm not sure how much new traffic will come to check out this blog, but I know that it's always hard to come to a blog and get a sense of what the person talks about. This is the reason I created the First Time ... 1,820 9 24 Software Simulation eLearning (w/ links to Tools) 1,724 2 ...

... the use of 3D virtual worlds like Second Life, podcasting content, the use of Wikipedia in the classroom and games and simulations for the classroom. I really enjoyed the presentation and meeting wonderful people. In fact, I met a ... took this workshop for us to meet. David is doing some really innovative work with blogs in his classroom. I also met Matrin Rayala who writes a blog called andDesign. If you have a chance, check out his blog really great stuff on all ... class up to the "at large" blog community which I did last summer. Tear Down the Walls: Web 2.0 Extends Class If ...

Discussion Resources for Learning Professionals Software Simulation eLearning (w/ links to Tools) eLearning Blogs - Quick ... Update 2/6/2008 based on recent Top eLearning Posts It can be daunting to visit a blog for the first time. The ... my blog and find some of the more interesting past articles. Managing your RSS Feeds - If you are considering subscribing to this blog, you might want to read this. Blog Description This blog covers trends in eLearning and more ... $110M venture round to working on interesting eLearning and tools for companies like Lexus, HP, IBM, etc. Thus, the blog ...

This week we will be focusing on the use of Second Life as a platform for interaction through an online simulated ... experience To do 1. Download and install the Second Life client and post to your blog your Second Life user name. 2 ... . Write a post to your blog with ideas on how you might operate as a facilitator for a community communicating on Second Life ... you ready? Social Networking Platforms Our Second Life Meetings Wk 10: Looking for online community: Virtual ... Meeting with Grad Students in Second Life - a photo by Pathfinder Linden Pathfinder Linden spoke at a weekly meeting ...

RapidBuilder® (Software Simul.. Second Life ReadyGo Web Course Builder Desire2Learn Learning Environ.. Corel ... I don't know if I've seen this reported by the eLearningGuild , but their reports showed some interesting information about satisfaction levels reported by members on course authoring and rapid eLearning tool satisfaction levels. Unfortunately, my blog is not wide enough for these images, so click on the image to go to a page with the full size image. Courseware Authoring Tool Satisfaction - Rapid eLearning Tool Satisfaction - I'm only showing ...

... too distant future.) After lunch I went to “I’m Busy Enough…What Do I Need a Second Life For?” mostly because Angela White (who I met at the conference) was so enthusiastic about Second Life. I went in as a ... Levine from NMC presented the session and “demystified” Second Life for me. I’ve heard of it, but never ... agents. What I learned from her is that we should provide support tools first and think about formal training second. In ... - find the best solution to improve performance. Train less, support more. I could do a lengthy blog post on just ...