... from how to navigate in Second Life to simple scripting with building, teleporting and designing Second Life training ... knows Second Life very well. Participants pose for a picture. One audience member gave a great account of how he is using Second Life to reproduce a critical incident at a power plant. He explained how employees receive an email about ... Second Life just as they would drive or fly to the plant that had the failure. The group then meets with the company ... in the Second Life environment. Matt answering questions about Second Life in this hands-on session. So thanks ...

Yesterday, Tony O'Driscoll , Matthew Monahan and I gave an ASTD Webinar on the topic of Second Life. We talked about ... webinar called Simple vs Complex Spaces . Tom has written a great deal on Second Life and innovative learning content ... WebEx (not ideal but it worked) and about 15 or so people attending within Second Life. The two different platforms and not using Voice in Second Life made it a little unfair for the SL attendees, I am hoping they were listening via WebEx ... Administration's island in Second Life and experienced a full blown Tsunami (virtually). If you attended, please let me ...

Here is a very funny video put together by a grad student of mine about the tv show The Office and Second Life...The ... may or may not know...CNN now has an office in Second Life. You can read all about it in the article CNN enters the virtual world of Second Life As the article states; Just as CNN asks its real-life audience to submit I-Reports -- user ... -- the network is encouraging residents of Second Life to share their own "SL I-Reports" about events occurring within the virtual world. "The thing we most hope to gain by having a CNN presence in Second Life is to learn about virtual ...

So, last night I got to watch the CSI New York show which combined the television episode with some action in Second Life. Two of my favorite things so it was fun to see how the wove the two together. Although, I've never seen SL ... will soon be able to "star" in your own Second Life CSI. Check out the show's web site featuring Second Life adventures like Find Venus . As an added bonus: CBS and CISCO created great and simple tutorials for Second Life all done by avatars. Check out the CBS/CISCO Second Life Tutorials . __ Recommended Games and Gadgets Recommended ...

... my graduate assistant who has been helping me with many Second life tasks. Neither Tony or I could make it in person so we presented virtually. Which, of course, was a perfect use of Second Life. We provided a little tour with Brent Schlenker discussing the uses of Second Life for providing learning solutions. I also kicked off my Basics of Second ... experience to a great deal of experience (like so many classes). We opened the class with information about Second Life, we ... . Discussion in Second Life The thing I like about Second Life is that I learn so much every time I teach a ...

A few days ago, I presented a webinar titled " Second Life in Education " for NETWORKS which is is a National Science Foundation Resource Center that is focused on the advancement of semiconductor, automated manufacturing, and electronics education. NETWORKS has a Digital Repository that contains classroom ready resources that are current, relevant, and ... checking out our island and looking at all the educational benefits of a 3D world like Second Life. You can read a little more about the tour in TechSpectives:Second Life in Education blog entry. During the tour I "took some pictures" ...

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 ...

... and Tricks to Create a Learning Space in Second Life . Actually, it is really a listing of great SL resources and ideas ... 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 ...

... reading up on possible implications of second life at the wiki of Jo Kay and Sean FitzGerald. and found an interesting link at Tony Karrer which send me to a Harvard Law course which uses the Second Life environment.

Old Classroom Space In honor of the Second Life workshop I will be starting next week (still time to sign up, click here for more information ), we have given the MSIT Second Life classroom space a little make over. You can see some of the "before and after" screen shots. New Classroom Space from the Student's Perspective New Classroom Space from the Instructor's Perspective Old Classroom Space from Instructor's Perspective Once again, I am going to be discussing how Second Life can be used from a corporate perspective and how designers need to leverage ...

Morneau from Capella University who are providing a session on Second Life. So, I am taking some notes: The presentation will talk about history of virtual environments and a theoretical framework for Second Life in the classroom. They are defining Second Life as "A 3D virtual world created by its inhabitants." Things you can do: Shopping, having classes ... ." He discussed the companies in Second Life including: Dell, BMW, IBM, Toyota, Circuit Ciy and others. He mentioned ... version in 1997...still ongoing today. Scott then spent some time explaining many of the terms of Second Life ...

Second life is used for eLearning purposes... but does it work? What is the outcome? Well, at least I got myself a name, now all I need to do is adjust my avatar. To get started I enrolled myself in the Gender Square. This landmark was developed by a friend of mine Jewel.

Recently, I received a some really good questions related specifically to Second Life but primarily are about virtual ... many educators have related to the social networks and Second Life. 1) Kids use these "places" like Second Life ... : Students Actually Use the Internet for Education. 2) Currently, it seems that much of the Second Life work is more ... starting to publish some research articles and case studies about Second Life but it is still relatively new. Although, I ... and then study the results. One school doing a lot of "actual work" in the area of Second Life is Ohio State. Check ...

Here is an article brought to my attention by one of my students Jason Kojtek . The article, The Second Life Census provides a link to a spreadsheet showing some interesting SL numbers. For example, the number of non-repeat credit card ... interesting part of the article are the comments posted afterward. The vast majority blasting Second Life because it is not a "game" and there is nothing to do in Second Life except walk around. Interesting, I think a lot of early technologies are ... PDAs first came on the scene. I think we are on the verge of something but, perhaps, Second Life isn't the final ...

This semester as part of a larger class project where students are required to respond to an e-learning Request for Proposal (RFP), my students are going to need to create some spaces and areas in Second Life. To faciliate this process, I have created wiki (at the suggestion of Barton )to provide information and to answer student questions. The wiki is called MSIT Second Life and is designed to provide information to students. If you want to stop by and provide some assistance or help, feel free to do so. We are in the process of purchasing an island and setting up for the class ...

... 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 ...

... in Second Life. We also had Heather demo some Second Life stuff through application sharing within Breeze. It ...

Second Life and movies have had a history. In my post Second Life at the Movies , I discuss the possibility of a full-feature length movie being created in Second Life. Well it has finally happened as a documentary. Filmmaker Douglas ... Second Life interview that is then made into a documentary about your company. IBM's Vice President of IBM's Technical Strategy and Innovation, Irving Wladawsky-Berger sits for an interview in Second Life. Another feature that could ... orientation provides great promise and possibilities. It allows you to leverage Second Life or other virtual worlds ...

Here are some interesting videos showing how Second Life can be used to design and deliver health related training and actual client support within a virtual world. This one is focused on nursing education . This one demonstrates various views of how a virtual platform can help mental health and other patients . Here is a video that shows how a "branching story" type interaction is used to provide training to students in a medical setting . __ Catalog of Recommended Books, Games and Gadgets Recommended Games and Gadgets Recommended Books ...

In my listing of Alternatives to Second Life , many packages were missed. Here are two more. MPK20:Sun's Virtual Workplace "Wonderland" The MPK20 virtual world is also known as Wonderland. Sun employees can accomplish their real work, share documents, and meet with colleagues using natural voice communication. Plans for future updates include the ability to share applications in the virtual environment, and to link whiteboards in physical meeting rooms with the ... 'Second Life'. You can download the application and check it out. InXpo InXpo has a virtual ASP ...

The i-web Singularity Redux that at Virtual Worlds III this week the announcement was made that Second Life has worked out a deal with IBM to move Second Life behind the IBM corporate firewall. If this can be a standard business practice for Second Life (living behind corporate firewalls) it is a removal of a huge obstacle for entry into 3D worlds for many ... been interest in using Second Life for business. For most corporations, though, it's been too insecure, lacking the ... its own sections of the Second Life Grid behind a firewall, allowing the company's users to come and go between ...

Here is this Month's ASTD Big Question: Second Life Training? More specifically: In what situations, do you believe it makes sense to develop a learning experience that will be delivered within Second Life? If you were to develop a training island in Second Life, what kind of environment and artifacts would you consider essential for teaching ... first I want to say that we need to get away from thinking the only 3D learning envrionemnt is Second Life . Many other ... Second Life activity but also activity in other 3D worlds. Here are the Two Videos. The first one I created and ...

I certainly haven't got all the Second Life lingo yet, but I'll try to pose my question here anyway. I was looking at a virtual conference in Second Life coming up that had some health care topics involved. Thinking about this I thought neat, I could register and give it a try to see what was covered and how they even do a conference in SL . I then wondered though, if I wanted to create/send coworkers into SL for a virtual experience how would that be done. I realize it would take some time to get land and create my area (Sim? is that right?), but then what. Would you just tell ...

... interesting article 'Another Life' of both Jay and Tony in eLearn magazine. With an added bonus to the Second Life - Moodle ... is involved in education with developing countries, Second Life seems far off. On the other hand new technologies get ... of 'scouts' within the institute to try out the Second Life environment, make a network and brainstorm about ...

Thanks to SL Tips for pointing me in the direction of this interesting article in the Washington Post . Here is a story titled Congress Goes Virtual in Online World Hearing that explains how a sub-committee in congress got together to experience a virtual world. According to the article: The Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet wanted to know some basics. Could Second Life be used as a place to launder money? Are children safe in online worlds? Are there churches in there? Are you making any money? I think they are digging deeper than just the basics but it is a ...

... negatives. Can you explain the negatives of Second Life." Aah, I LOVE half empty people! (oops, I mean people who view the ... negatives of Second Life ...enjoy, I guess. There are definite "non-business friendly" areas which should be avoided ... experiences. Because Second Life started more or less as form of social networking and chat-based software, it allows ... space completely undressed. It also means that Second Life is populated with many virtual "red light" districts and ... with night clubs and cheap hotels. (See Sex in Second Life .NSFW) If you are careful in your selection of ...

If you were running a business and your clientele rose from 3 million to 11 million in just one year, then people would 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 fueling some new excitement. If anyone is clueless about SL, a quick read of the wikipedia article on the subject would be useful before continuing on with this blog post. I have been a casual SL user for the last couple ...

... discussing our article at IBM's location in Second Life. __ Recommended Games and Gadgets Recommended Books ... Here is a link to an article I wrote called Defining and Understanding Virtual Worlds for ASTD's Learning Circuits. And here is a good companion piece if you haven't read it already, check out Another Life: Virtual Worlds as Tools for Learning at eLearn Magazine . One of the authors of that article is Tony O'Driscoll who I am workign wth on an article about 3D synchronous learning environments for the E-Learning Guild . Tony has a great concept called "The ...

This weekend I attended an English as a Second Language (ESL) class. It was a surreal experience for two reasons. 1) I already speak English (unfortunately, the only language I do speak except for a little French which I continually butcher, oui) 2) the class was in Second Life (SL). The instructor, Kip, separated the attendees into two groups and then asked a series of questions in English using slides and then the participants answered with written English sentences. The instructor would correct the students (most of whom spoke German as a first language) by typing a correction or ...

Here is a video I created for my "Learning in 3D Class" which contrasts the world of 2D Synchronous tools with 3D Synchronous learning tools. I hope it illustrates some of the advantages of 3D environments and some of the things that can be done to faciliate learning within a 3D environment. The video is based on the work Tony O'Driscoll and I did for the e-learning guild's Synchronous Learning 360 Report . For a full discussion of 3D synchronous learning, you want to get your hands on that report, it contains a complete essay describing our view and explains how to create your ...