... 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 ...

... 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" ...

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 UPDATE: Here is the book that I recommended in my presentation. __ Recommended Games and Gadgets ...

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 ...

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 ...

... 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 ...

... environments within organizations. Also, you can check out a webinar where I co-presented with Steve Wexler and ...

... presentation or Upload your own. (tags: second life ) 2) Bart took some great notes on the presentation. You ... One of the things that I love about the Internet (Cue the violins) is the life that presentations and information after the live presentation is over and begins to fade from memory. Because we now have blogs, wikis, podcasting and Web 2.0 the presentations can add value long after the presenter has "left the building." This sharing of information and its longer shelf-life is exciting and reminds me of an old saying. If I have a penny and you have a penny and we ...

... 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 ... Today I am presenting on the topic of Designing Problem-Based Learning Environments in a 3D On Line Virtual World ...

... teamed up at several conferences as co-presenters (see ASTD TechKnowledge 2008, Lots of Fun and Second Life Training ... Preston providing instruction and answering questions in Second Life. So the second week of the summer ... explaining Second Life and he knows the ins and outs of the program extremely well. However, the class is having a little problem with the summer freshman who were supposed to contact my graduate students to start a Second Life project. A number ... Second Life environment. Currently we are exploring how to build small houses and shelters on our land.

This morning, I had a great time giving a presentation to a group over in the UK via a mash up of Skype and Second Life. I presented to the Eduverse Foundation Symposium . Of course I would have liked to have been there in person but ... consuming. So using the video of Skype on one computer and the world of Second Life on another, I gave a tour of MSIT ... : And here are some helpful links for those who attended the webinar and anyone else who may be interested. Second Life Session (list of links to blog entries I've done about Second Life and 3D Worlds) Learning Archetypes for 3D ...

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 ... his workshop. And as a Christmas Present: Use VIP Code TTZE6 to receive $150 off Registration! __ Recommended ...

... need: An instructor or facilitator who is present to guide the activity and set the parameters for interaction.

I'll be conducting a Second Life Workshop in conjunction with the folks from Training Magazine as an extension of my conference presentation on the topic. To learn more go to LOL's description of Second Life: Basic Design Workshop. If you want to sign up...Save $100-register with Discount Code tme27f online at: www.TrainingLiveAndOnline.com. __ Recommended Games and Gadgets Recommended Books Content ...

ID Stadium which is used for in-world presentations. Today I am presenting a webinar titled " Second Life in ... basics of Second Life and how it can be used in educational settings effectively. To help emphasize my point, here are ... Second Life created by students. Interactive science lab created by a team at Ohio State through NSF funding. To really get immersed in Second Life, attend this U2inSL Concert...not the real thing but close. Here are some links to other information and resources: Here is the video for the Second Life office ...

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 ...

Second Life has come under a lot of attack recently because "it's empty." One especially hard hitting article How Madison Avenue Is Wasting Millions on a Deserted Second Life complained that "there's the question of what people do when they get there. Once you put in several hours flailing around learning how to function in Second Life, there isn't much to do." Then the Yankee group made a statement that the average person in Second Life only spends 12 minutes a month in ... people getting into Second Life don't understand it. Second Life is a Synchronous tool which means, you need more ...

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 ... Bart Pursel of Virtual Learning Worlds and an alumni of our program presented on Virtual Worlds. He defined a Virtual World as a computer-based environment intended for users to inhabit and interact via avatars in a 3D represented ... supporting Bart's presentation at his blog called Talk at Bloomsburg University . __ Recommended Games and ...

... sunrises and sunsets. Instead, she watched them in Second Life while she enjoyed a cup of coffee or tea. The social impact ... worlds will continue to get more real, further blurring what we physically experience and what we create online). Second Life & Divorce presents a glimpse of how morals and ethics will be (re)considered online.

My work with games, gadgets and gizmos provides me with the perfect opportunity for connecting with my oldest son (now a teenager...it is everything they say it is) In fact, tomorrow he and I are co-presenting a workshop about Second Life at Bucknell University to a group of high school, middle school and elementary school teachers. My son is ... fund!) Here is a picture of his avatar from the teen grid...Dmc Dench. You can read more of his Second Life exploits ... little about the educational aspects of the tool.) We have co-presented twice before and he does a great job. This is ...

This week, we had Suzi Mazzenga as a guest speaker talking about her adventure as a male in Second Life. You can read about it in her article My Days as a Dude . She gave her presentation using text chat within the Second Life classroom we have set up on MSIT Island. The class then had a discussion about the places they visited last week and how those places could be used for education. Thanks to Marnie Welliver for taking over the faciliation of the class as I was otherwise engaged. __ Recommended Games and Gadgets Recommended Books Content ...

Second Life @One Research Pep Projects Contact   SECOND LIFE PROJECTS Second ... series of consultancy projects with Linden Lab the creators of Second Life . The purpose of my consultancy was to explore the educational and knowledge sharing applications of Second Life with regard to higher education. Introducing Your Real Life Students to Second Life Real Life Student Orientation Tutorial (youtube video) SL ... & MUSINGS A Few Podcasts & Other Things to Consider Education in Second Life: Explore ...

Learning Gets a Second Life Presenter: Anders Gronstedt, Gronstedt Group Digital natives spend more time playing video games (12.5 h/week) than watching TV (9.8 h/wk) They grow up playing very intricate games with VOiP - international ... (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.

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 ... => at this point virtual worlds exclude people from low resource areas . Again, like with the presentation of ...

Found via Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development A great introduction to using Second Life as a teaching ... that Second Life offers something interesting in terms of providing a natural "setting" for online sessions ... that Second Life has audio, there is a really interesting capability to have natural break-outs during online sessions ... Second Life are still a little too high for them to become truly mainstream, but would be great for a controlled ... effectively this kind of experience could be done in Second Life with the physical space recreated and having avatars ...

Earlier this week I had the opportunity to particpate with colleagues from IBM and Duke CE in a plenary session at the HRPS Conference Our session was entitled “ Second Life: What's the Business Case for HR in the Virtual World?” My buddy Steve Mahaley (Ace Carson in SL) did an awesome job of producing this plenary. And boy was it ever a production! We had two large screens. One was projecting SL the other was projecting charts. We had an elaborate ... off with a fun video (Rip, Remix, Reload rules in effect here) where the idea was to present SL as a frivolous place ...

... disadvantages of) the technology. With Second Life - both teachers and students have to get past the initial "playing ... with the medium will be useful. I've been toying with Second Life for a month now and, thus far, have figured out how ... Following Brent's lead in his post Corporate eLearning Development: SL inworld presentation: How People Learn , I ... using the camera controls, getting kicked out during the presentation) and did not pick up as much of the message as I should have. What I got from the presentation - "We should all work together." A solid sentiment since we are ...

... like second life so you can have easier break-out sessions. So, in a couple of years, we would expect to have virtual ... opportunities that can be created in Second Life such as a virtual visit to a NASA museum complete with videos, presentations, a rocket-ride around the solar system. That's a great, fun way to teach around these topics. But, it's not ...