See my post today over at the Training Day blog . The post is titled Second Life: It's Everywhere. Please feel free to leave a comment on the blog explaining how you use technology to extend your classes. __ Recommended Games and Gadgets Recommended Books Content ...

... test their students can use Second Life in a number of ways. Blogs and Websites --Turn to these blogs for tips, services and tools when setting up a learning space in Second Life. Examples of Second Life in Education --Follow these real-life Second Life projects from Stanford, Harvard Law School and even a New York middle school to start your own studies or get students of all ages involved in Second Life. More Tips and Ideas-- From Campus: Second Life to designing ... and Tricks to Create a Learning Space in Second Life . Actually, it is really a listing of great SL resources and ...

Second Life and training here Kevin Shadix - Shady Learning Blog Kapp Notes: Think Virtual Worlds: Not Second ... This month's question came from a reader the June 2008 Big Question is: Second Life Training? More ... within Second Life? If you were to develop a training island in Second Life, what kind of environment and artifacts would ... should look like: Tony Karrer - Safety Training Design or you could also include your blog name with something like ... - Virtual Worldly Second Life et al Bill Brantley - Using Second Life for Online Classes 50 Tips ...

Second Life and training here Kevin Shadix - Shady Learning Blog Kapp Notes: Think Virtual Worlds: Not Second ... This month's question came from a reader the June 2008 Big Question is: Second Life Training? More ... within Second Life? If you were to develop a training island in Second Life, what kind of environment and artifacts would ... should look like: Tony Karrer - Safety Training Design or you could also include your blog name with something like ... - Virtual Worldly Second Life et al Bill Brantley - Using Second Life for Online Classes 50 Tips ...

Tony O'Driscoll explaining his "Seven Sensibilities of 3D Worlds" in Second Life class on MSIT Island . If one of your New Year's Resolutions is to learn more about 3D worlds, check out the workshop being done by Tony O'Driscoll who recently joint the ranks of academia. You can learn more about Tony's workshop on his blog at Save the Date: Feb 2 and 3 Workshop at Training . If you are planning on being there, I suggest you take the time to attend his workshop, it will be excellent and informative and give you an entirely new perspective on 3D learning. Here is a brief description ...

... 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 ... €œsecond life", but not necessarily in Second Life." The use of virtual worlds as learning platforms is hitting the â ... actual equipment. Several pharmaceutical firms use virtual worlds of one form or another for training and social ...

... versions of real life. For a complete review of the product check out the review by Jose C Gomez in his blog entry Google Lively Review on his blog josecgomez.com Rather than a platform for 3D training and adventure, the product ...

Linden Labs (the company behind Second Life.) For example an island is analogous to a server. Bart mentioned that many people are doing prototyping and product development in Second Life, people are doing education and training ... supporting Bart's presentation at his blog called Talk at Bloomsburg University . __ Recommended Games and ...

... figure it out. - Have seen emergency responder training in 2nd life. Second Life and Training - 1200 educational ... 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 ... helping instructors do this. - Second life has own scripting language - Most of this is one-time development. A ... cutbacks on travel and travel for training. - Plus the environmental costs of instructor-led training. - We have to ...

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 ... ...Instructional Designers will tend to gravitate toward a training problem just like game designers will tend to gravitate ...

... has a discussion on Second Life as a Teaching Tool as well. Also, Tim Wang's eLearning Blog has a great entry on the ... Basically Second Life is the Matrix , as in, "Wake Up Neo, the Matrix has you." You can learn a little more by checking out my previous entry on the subject, Get a "Second Life." Second Life is a virtual world in which people can ... and other items. The implications for training are that people will be able to act, interact and learn from each other in this virtual world. The world itself is not a training environment but training events and situations can ...

PM ,   subquark said... Id like to throw Second Life into the mix (or my ... not currently allow. Second Life can be leveraged by eLearning providers to be an inexpensive tool for creating video ... that in Second Life). Thanks for the post! :)   At 8/03/2008 10:41 ... eLearning Technology Tony Karrers eLearning Blog on e ... eLearning Tools - Wikis, Blogs and More : eLearning ...

... 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 higher ... taught in Second Life. For more information, see: Medical Modeling & Simulation A Typology ...

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Here are some links to some postings in my blog that provide additonal information about Second Life. Second Life Resourses The Office in Second Life...CNN in Second Life The Learning Webvolution. (article written with Tony O'Driscoll.) Second Life...Its Synchronous Discussion of some of the negative aspects of SL. Fair and Balanced Hope you found thess links helpful. __ Catalog of Recommended Books, Games and Gadgets Recommended Games and Gadgets Recommended Books Content ...

... at 01.15am: I'm Busy Enough ... What Do I Need a Second Life For? By Alan Levine. Session 704 at 02.45pm ... In preparation of the live blogging I have planned during the eLearning Guilds Annual Gathering , I list my schedule. If any of you are planning to blog on this conference, let me know your schedule, we could link to one another. The tag I use for this conference is AG08. Thursday 15 April: Session 103 at 10.45 am: The Secret of Delivering Outstanding Virtual Classroom Training by Frank Gartland. Session 206 at 01.00 ...

... quot;fu... From where do educational simulations used in acad... Might Second Life be the Common Interface to ... 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 ... / freshmen/ recruits ). Any high-turnover position should be trained, although not exclusively, using branching stories ... spreadsheets . Also called virtual role-play, interpersonal simulation, open-ended story, or story-based soft skills training ...

... 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 ... and Leadership> Training . In fact, the book made it as high as #35. And all in all, over 20 different blogs ... 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 ...

... outstanding. They, the second life folks, held a session recently on exactly that. So far it looks like the most active actual DOER amongst us training professionals is John Hartman aka Thought Plasma inwold. His blog under the same name is ... creative people are using SecondLife in amazing ways. Starwood Previews New Hotel Brand in Second Life . Or how about the New Media Center's SecondLife campus . Check out the SecondLife Creativity blog for more 2L goodness. I can only ... corporate training tool. So I was beyond excited to work see Mark Oehlert 's work while at the Masie Center on ...

Training Blogs Three-Dimensional Worlds Second Life ProtoSphere Active Worlds There Social Networking LinkedIn MySpace Facebook Social Bookmarking del.icio.us Article about Blogging in Corporations Blogging ... blog postings I've done related to the topic and other related links. These postings and links support the presentation and provide additional information on the topic of "Tools for Transferring Know How." Blog Posting Books to ... : Where in the World is Everybody Going? Gadgets, Games and Gizmos: Knowledge Transfer Teaching/Training Across ...

... 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 .

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Game Resources Wiki Glossary for Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning Recommended Books Training Blogs (collection of many training-related blogs) MSIT Second Life Wiki Industry Web Sites and ... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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Brilliant e-learning or rather Learning 2.0. Here is a quick tutorial on How to 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 learning) by my friend Mike Qaissaunee ... "spice up" your e-learning. Take a few minutes and browse the content. Clark Aldrich's blog entry for the big ...

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... 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 held by grad students who are using Second Life as part of their academic research. My discussion focused on the importance ...

... had the opportunity to present with my oldest son on the topic of Second Life . See Father and Son Second Life ... this is really related to the prediction above. Introduction of a highly popular "Second Life"-esque product focused ... ), was published which has led to great opportunities, conversations and discussions. I launched a blog book tour to ... ReCap of Blog Book Tour for Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning I found out that I am most like the Green Lantern ... 2008? Personally Try to keep up with writing books, book chapters, blog entries, articles, presentations, ...