Every week or so I hear about a company looking to Second Life as a teaching environment. First, I have to say that Second Life is a great Web 2.0/massively multiplayer environment. I respect the ability of people to make money in Second Life. I respect the ability of people to "hang" in Second Life. I think it is great that companies are prototyping visual and structural designs in Second Life. I suggest everyone listen to the Business Week podcast . Having said all of that, Second Life, as is, is not a teaching tool. It is content free. It is closer to a virtual classroom tool, or even ...

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 ...

... this industry is being driven by engineers so the predictable pattern of functionality explosion and interface ...

During my recent conference in San Francisco (shown above), Gordon Snyder, Jr. the Executive Director and Principal Investigator of the National Center for Telecommunication Technologies (NCTT) gave a great presentation on MMORPGS and how they can be used in community colleges and training programs. He mentioned a number of uses of Second Life and ... Second Life or any other metaverse . The real power of the metaverse concept is when we use the platform to do things we ... through the human body Fly above a cityscape to see patterns or green space Become another gender or race ...

... 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 ...

... most valuable activities? - What do I need to do to achieve goal? Gamer 4.0 - Second Life - What activities give me ... outside of pong Gamer 2.0 - Space invaders - What are the patterns (aliens in middle or end) - Start of pattern ...

Virtual Environments - see Second Life and Learning eLearning Trend #3 - Open Source and Free Tools eLearning ... Second Life and Learning - Tony O'Driscoll Informal Learning and New Managers ... Brandon Hall Researchers Blogging - Implications? International eLearning Usage Pattern ...

... 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 ... practices in Iraq, and several others. I discussed the fact that there was a common Adoption Pattern that went from personal ... careful about overselling the amount of adoption. Adoption Patterns Clearly to increase the chances of successful adoption, you should use patterns that are more likely to succeed. WikiPatterns is a great place to go for ideas ...

Learning Second Life and Learning - Tony O'Driscoll Informal Learning and ... Usage Pattern Differences Get Together at Conferences - F2F Still ...

... socialnetworking , third+place , communication , web20 , twitter , second+life , network , connections ... Liveblogged during the keynote presentation by Larry Johnson, Chief Executive Officer, New Media Consortium ( NMC ). My comments in italics. Premise: Technology has not only mediated communication but that the very ways we communicate, including how we talk and think about communication, are changing. Patterns of writing now aren’t the same as ... a Third Place First place: Home Second Place: Work Third Place: where you unwind, hang out with ...

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 ... there was a common Adoption Pattern that went from personal adoption to work groups to organization. â?? Personal ... activity and other adoption models. Still, be careful about overselling the amount of adoption. Adoption Patterns Clearly to increase the chances of successful adoption, you should use patterns that are more likely to ...

... was moderating on eLearning 2.0. We had discussed Wikis, Blogs and were embarking on Second Life. Someone from the ... anything, I always start with a couple of quotes that keep me grounded: A consistent pattern in our response to ...

... difference in my life. My second story is about love and loss. I was lucky D I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz ... the Island of jokaydia in Second Life on 16 January 2008 Leigh will be making another attempt at getting this talk ... core, language is a social function (Wittgensteins box of beetles). - symbols - carriers of previous patterns of ... college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. Thats it. No big deal. Just three stories ... relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college. This was the start in my life ...