This morning I am giving an opening address the the National Center for Telecommunications Technologies Information and Communications/Convergence Conference at the Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA on the topic of Second Life so I wanted to provide some resources: Second Life (the web site) Second Life Wiki (a wiki with "how to" information and other links.) Video on Educational uses of Second Life Video on Science Experiments in Second Life Funny Clip of "The Office" in Second Life Second Life...Its Synchronous Discussion of the synchronous uses of Second Life ...

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 ... -fledged conferences (with paid attendance); has created a business and development arm, and is currently the largest Second Life education landowner (50+ sims). In this session, you will learn: * An inside look at Second Life culture ...

... here is the MSIT Second Life Wiki which ontains the paper for the conference and a ton of useful resources. Here are some resources I mentioned concerning other Second Life presentations I've done. Here are the slides from an ASTD TechKnowledge Presentation . Here are a couple of books used for Second Life. Here are the links: Other resources: SL Portal LSL Wiki Here is a post to additional links: Second Life Resourses: Supporting NCTT Opening Address ... the 19th International Conference on Teaching and Learning . And I am receiving an Award for Innovative Excellence ...

Here are the slides for the ASTD TechKnowledge Presentation . It was an all day workshop and we spent most of the time in Second Life but you may find the slides helpful. For the ASTD Conference, we talked about a couple of books used for Second Life. Here are the links: Other resources: SL Portal LSL Wiki Here is a post to additional links: Second Life Resourses: Supporting NCTT Opening Address __ Catalog of Recommended Books, Games and Gadgets Recommended Games and Gadgets Recommended Books Content ...

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 examples was on having a teaming exercise in SL. He looked at possible benefits of virtual world education. Based on his ... http://sl.nmc.org/wiki/NMC-Campus:About http://electricsheepcompany.com/ http://metalab.blogspot.com/ ...

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 ...

... development deal with Second Life to bring their platform to the enterprise. This is yet one more piece of the puzzle ... Knoweldge Sharing Spaces. I won’t go over well trodden ground on how Blogs, Wikis and Social Media sites like ... second thought. Vector 3: The 212 degree point for for both Trend 1 and 2 is when the web enters the next dimension ... rather than second-hand products. No one will work for the i-web. Instead the i-web will work for them. Providing i-web ... -phone was cool, wait until the i-web consumes us (or our avatars). Here is the 2minute 30 second romp through ...

Welcome to the Connectivism and Connective Knowledge Online Course support wiki. Conference tags: CCK08 This page is ... " participants will use a variety of technologies. For example, participants will use blogs, Second Life, Page Flakes, attend UStream ... handled in a variety of formats: podcast, slidecast, Articulate presentation, video recording, Second Life presentation, or ... ) you can edit the contents of this wiki. - Stephen Activities: Mon: Recorded presentations and readings will ... Alerts). 2. Begin work on your second short paper . Additional Readings: The new dynamics of strategy: ...

... truly new or are a great application. I dont need to see a screenshot of Second Life or of Wikipedia again, but if theres a ... Better Conferences - Response Needed : eLearning Technology Im pretty sure its not just me... I believe we can build better conferences. And, I need you to help by ... suggestions for what youd like to see in future conferences (add comment). If you dont vote, then well assume you either will never go to a conference or think that every conference is just great as it is. I am talking to conference ...

... even when the group is accepting Scot Headley: Quaker Meeting in Second Life Second Life focused his ... This is another liveblogged post from the TCC 2008 conference. Presented by Scot Headley, Amy Dee, Sue Phillips ... created online community projects Used a wiki for the course –most content went through the wiki, not through ... experiences. Amy Dee: Wiki-Mania Used wiki for communication with a church small group People were used to checking email, not the wiki Missed most of her presentation due to a phone call Tricia Meyer ...

... about their work: http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Second_Life_Grad_Student_Colony Most people use the ... ://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Second_Life_Grad_Student_Colony A virtual world is a computer-based ... in Education resources wiki . The Arch - A community of Architects interested in the use of Second Life as a ... 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 ...

Second Life Future Trends More for younger generations More communities of practice Move from passive to ... This is another liveblogged post from the TCC 2008 conference, presented by Robert Fulkerth, Ageno School of Business, Golden Gate University, San Francisco, CA. Developed a course on social networking for business Will teach with blogs and a wiki Using the tools to teach the content–mostly avoiding the LMS Use online library ... websites Tools Used: Used Weblog.com to create the blog Google Sites for the wiki Myspace LinkedIn ...

... the use of 3D virtual worlds like Second Life, podcasting content, the use of Wikipedia in the classroom and games and ... Academy that discusses issues regarding teaching and learning and this year the conference was held at Bloomsburg University ... and the links are below. PB Wiki Wikispaces Here are a couple of posts about cross-generational ...

Second Life and Learning 837 4 11 Shift in eLearning from Pure Courseware towards Reference Hybrids 832 4 10 Free Online Conference - Corporate Learning ... Software Simulation eLearning (w/ links to Tools) 1,724 2 11 Second Life and ... eLearning Software 967 0 1 Better Conferences - Response Needed 959 38 ... Introduction to Wikis, Blogs, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking and RSS 702 5 ...

The article on page 4 includes one of the best descriptions of Second Life I’ve read: Second Life, created by Linden Lab, and based in San Francisco… uses a similar operating system to The Sims Online. Second Lifers can buy ... an audio channel. Second Life seems like a logical outcome of Wrightâ??s simulation gamesâ??and it isnâ??t technically ... Second Life’s early education efforts: Terry Beaubois of Montana State taught architecture in SL last Fall ... Lab (3) Mashups (3) MUVE Culture (12) Platforms (11) References (5) Second Life ...

... with some of the legends of Serious Games at the Second Life party and got a preview of some genius games recently ... inside Second Life with ways for companies to foster more collaborative learning methods. Says Intel Corp. learning ... will be remembered as the year of The Learning Triad:  blogs, wikis, and RSS.  Since starting the Corporate ... admired for years. Many new and simple feed readers became available for loading my RSS feeds , and open source wikis ... .  After meeting Mark Oehlert at Learning2005 we partnered up to present at the Serious Games conference ...

Congrats to Brent who managed to attend my session, participate in the back channel, and attend a session in Second Life at ... running through the chat log: How was this conference marketed? how can more hear about participating? There are over 1,000 attendees. All the marketing was done through viral means - blogs primarily. Of course, having the conference ... Bookmarking and Wikis and Blogs are a form of social networking I never said this, but several people pointed it out in the ... the value of blogs being building a network. The same thing can be true with social bookmarking, wikis, flickr, ...

... memory of 2006 comes from a comment made during a panel that I was moderating on eLearning 2.0. We had discussed Wikis, Blogs and were embarking on Second Life. Someone from the audience in all sincerity said: "This stuff is freaking me ... were they easy to use. It's all pure service. And this experience kept coming all during the year with Wikis, and more ... the use of RoboInfo or other similar programs for reference materials. Wikis are way better even if the end-users don't ... going to fall prey to alternatives be it do-it-yourself learning or start-ups . A purely virtual conference ( ...

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... link back to the tagger's BluePages profile IBM owns more than 50 islands in Second Life. Orientations, classes, and meetings are often held in Second Life. Barriers I then asked everyone to call out what they saw as their biggest ... Conference Breakout Sessions ). Provide the content. I've embedded all the content from the slides. Provide thoughts ... examples mentioned including Intuit using a Wiki-like system for customers to ask questions/get advice around taxes, using a ... participants. Question 1 - What are the most likely ways / places your organization might or does use Blogs, Wikis, ...

Second Life Lite A medium size Virtual Classroom / Meeting Tool will announce features in 2008 that are not 3D ... , PPT + Audio tools will do well with none winning huge shares of the marketplace. Wiki + SCORM + Add-ins will become more ... community and wiki capabilities. Unfortunately, these will be even worse than Sharepoint, the solution you already ... at eLearningGuild in the Fall, success of the virtual conference with George Siemens, discussion with Jay Cross and others about a conference for people with more experience, and discussion by Luis Suarez about a targeted virtual conference ...

... was moderating on eLearning 2.0. We had discussed Wikis, Blogs and were embarking on Second Life. Someone from the ... experience kept coming all during the year with Wikis, and more ( Incredibly Cool! Vision of Future of Application and ... materials. Wikis are way better even if the end-users don't edit. I had a very interesting disagreement with a client ... . Deciding if I should be speaking more or less at conferences? I love going to conferences when there's energy and I meet ... conferences have been interesting again, but I'm not sure if that trend will continue. In the meantime, I'm spending ...

... build buzzword collaborative conference create design education free game google iphone learning life media mobile MUVE network new online open project second Second Life second_life share social source sun techcrunch twitter virtual virtual_world web Web 2.0 Wii wiki wonderland ...

... learning Reduces isolation Forms the foundation of a learning community Audience - training in Second Life. Docs haven't used 2nd life. Have seen some work - Appalachian State built own program. Docs have some concerns about how to use it in eLearning. Big problem - people constructing replicas of on the ground classrooms. Doing same thing in 2nd life can do in real life (one guy talking - lectures). Want to see very different approach. Seeing way too many lectures ... College Preliminaries - it's a full house! Wasn't expecting that for pre-conference workshops. Curious to see how ...

50 islands in Second Life. Orientations, classes, and meetings are often held in Second Life. Barriers I then ... ... Great post, really well laid out. I particularly found IBMs use of Second Life interesting (and their ... introductory survey that I conduct (thanks to the suggestion via Conference Breakout Sessions ). Provide the content ... tools as part of learning solutions. There were about 7 examples mentioned including Intuit using a Wiki-like system for ... your organization might or does use Blogs, Wikis, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking or Collaboration Tools?

... in Plain English Howard Rheingold on Making Stuff in Second Life How to Behave on an Internet Forum [ edit ... Claudia LAmoreaux on Using Second Life Goes for School Clay Shirky on Organizing Knowledge on the Web Cmap Tools ... EduCommons Education 3.0 Education Arcade Education Podcast Network Education in Second Life Educational ... 4.1.4 More Articles 4.2 Key Blogs 4.3 Key Books 4.4 Key Conferences 4.5 Key Courses ... Net Generation Using Wikis in Education CC Learn , using Creative Commons licensing for education ...

... 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 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 ...

... a wiki with a mindmap. For example, you could put your info about technologies, conferences, etc. in a structured wiki ... showing public photos from UX Week 2007 . Make your own badge here . Me in Second Life gapingvoid ... any wiki that automatically generates a visual nav. Im happy with TWiki but would have to build the mind map manually ... plot different technologies, conferences, etc that I am tracking and then allow people to view that over the ...

Second Life Learning Videos (38) Personal Learning Tools and Technologies (38) Corporate Policies on Web 2.0 ... Twitter Mass Follow - Nevermind. Free Virtual Conference => Discussions We held our second annual Learn Trends ... - Meeting Tool + Second Life Lite A medium size Virtual Classroom / Meeting Tool will announce features in 2008 that are not ... (13) Social Conference Tools - Expect Poor Results (13) Instruction eLearning 2.0 and Quality (11) Social ... ) Online Conferences and In-Person Conferences (8) Searching for Expertise - LinkedIn Answers (8) ...

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