... 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.

... 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 ...

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 ...

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 ... 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. A ... where we all learn from everyone. (Web 2.0) - See in wikis, blogs and podcasts Podcasting on the go - there is ...

... optimize work. Steve gave some examples of education in virtual worlds (he used the Second Life environment). One of his ... In the corporate learning conference organised by George Siemens, Steve Mahaley was second to give a presentation on ... with an educational environment. Several learning theorists were put onto display: Lev Vygotsky , John Dewey and ... and virtual environments certainly demand high end equipment for all participants to be able to attend virtual classes ... Karrer yesterday the fire walled environment in corporation was mentioned as a possible downside for corporation ...

... i at Manoa In Second Life: Professor Lilliehook “Change ahead requires vision now” Visions for change ... Merged technologies Open source software Internet subscription software Overview of Second Life Wants to ... Everyone has art ability–everyone can build Library of Congress has a Second Life New Media Consortium Getting ... Second Life & virtual worlds are a new movement, but SL isn’t the first world and won’t be the last ... ; but there is a learning curve Why Second Life Education No subject left behind! Many classroom ...

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 ...

... 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 ... Welcome to the Connectivism and Connective Knowledge Online Course support wiki. Conference tags: CCK08 This page is ... ) 15 Week 8: Power, control, validity, and authority in distributed environments (October 27-November 2 ... ) you can edit the contents of this wiki. - Stephen Activities: Mon: Recorded presentations and readings ...

... say exactly what its role will be in the world of emerging technologies. A quick initial reaction: it’s Second Life distributed.We should be able to experience it in our environments (such as blogs, wikis, or even LMS’). At ... can also run on your desktop. Tech Crunch Well, this sucks for Second Life Read Write Web Lively runs ... can interact with other users, very much like you would do in Second Life. You can also watch YouTube clips on virtual ... environment they chose. You can also express your own personality by customizing your avatar’s look, ...

... and preserve the old paradigm of education with new technical forms. Even in Second Life, a multi player 3D virtual ... The Social impact of Personal Learning Environments This may not be ... Personal Learning Environments 1. Personal Learning Environments â?? cause and effect Although the Personal Learning Environment (PLE) is a very new term, (van Harmalen (2006) argues the first recorded use of the term is November 4 ... Learning Environments approach both of which are based on an institution- or course-centred view of learning.

... to see what types of educational environments are being created within Second Life. We had a great guest speaker, one ... Second Life Wiki . There is a great discussion going on under the Discussions tab. __ Recommended Games and Gadgets ... The second "Learning in 3D" class had a few technical difficulties. Second Life was slow and not everyone could log in ... Up . He also lists a number of hints for conducting a class like this in Second Life. I then distributed some note cards to the MSIT group (after some difficulty) and the students then have a chance to go back into Second Life and see ...

I loved blogging about Heart Murmur Sim in Second life back in September by Jeremy Kemp.  While snooping around the SimTeach wiki I discovered some work being done on connecting SL to Moodle.  I found at the NMC Observer that Jeremy wastes no time...that this work has been given a name... SLoodle .  AWESOME!  I just realized that today was the first inworld event...rats! I missed it. Now that I have a little extra time on my hands, I will definitely ... seamless movement from one environment to the next is cool.  Seeing Moodle blocks represented in 3D space will blow ...

Second Life Future Trends More for younger generations More communities of practice Move from passive to ... teach with blogs and a wiki Using the tools to teach the content–mostly avoiding the LMS Use online library ... the lack of message control, but some hope that by creating a safe and pleasant environment internally that employees ... websites Tools Used: Used Weblog.com to create the blog Google Sites for the wiki Myspace LinkedIn ...

... 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 ... environment. It is recommended that you access are modern computer and you will need to install the Second Life client to ... 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: ...

... recognition - PacMan - some can play with eyes closed Gamer 3.0 - Myst - Exploring environments - where to first? - What are the most valuable activities? - What do I need to do to achieve goal? Gamer 4.0 - Second Life - What activities give me ... complicated. + can grow them up to match environment. Use different characters. - Leverage Gadgets + If you need SOPs ... information and policed (Wikis) - Orgs are worried about legal implications of information - But Wikis capture and audit ... orgs using tiered communities of practice. One level wiki, one level phone then wiki, one level vet information ...

Second Life and Learning 837 4 11 Shift in eLearning from Pure ... Software Simulation eLearning (w/ links to Tools) 1,724 2 11 Second Life and ... 21 Personal Learning Knowledge Work Environment 1,199 3 23 Course ... Introduction to Wikis, Blogs, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking and RSS 702 5 25 ... Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools - A Summary 1,147 2 28 Introduction to Wikis, ...

... 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 ... Firefox , and so many others. '06 was also the year of Games, Multi-User Virtual Environments (MUVEs), and the ...

... enterprises) will have a “second life,” but not neccessarily in Second Life.” Anyhow the story ... Blogs, Wikis, Social Tagging and Networking to increase the number of knowledge accidents within the firm. Also, we forego ... squads go seek out the truth about an issue or opportunity, Wikis capture the wisdom of crowds around a given topic or task ... environment where work just plain gets done. THE 3Di Web SINGULARITY Masup the Mashups and you end up with a totally new platform upon which people work, learn and play. A 3D environment that affords information age work like ...

... 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 ... wiki for it's main page worked out pretty well. And I'm sure it could be better. Social networks through my blog ...

Congrats to Brent who managed to attend my session, participate in the back channel, and attend a session in Second Life at ... 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, etc ... some strategies for documenting a thought string (i.e. blog to blog to wiki to person) and coming back to a particular node ... you put policies/procedures on WIKIs when I thought the nature of them is that anyone can edit? You wouldn't ...

... 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 ... 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, Social ... Web 2.0 Tools - A Summary and particularly my use of the course wiki as the basis for putting course notes, ...

... managers lead virtual teams successfully. These tools will be familiar to us all: instant messaging, VOIP, blogs, wikis, collaborative spaces, online spaces, live online events, personal employee spaces, expertise locators, tagging. Second Life ... online game environments facilitate leadership and speed up the process of developing leaders," and 49% of respondents ...

... 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 world ... others trying to focus on different niches such as k12 Education ( Edmodo ), corporate and other environments ( ...

... 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 ...

Learning Technologies Media Zoo Podcast Second Life Wikis ... -learning e-tivities Learning Technologies Media Zoo Podcast Second Life Wikis ... wildlifeâ?? on display in a safe environment based on a Four Quadrant Model (Salmon 2005) consisting of axes of New ...  Quadrant 4 scans the external environment and looks for â??weakerâ?? signals that might offer approaches to meeting studentsâ ... material to students; PROWE is a collaborative project with the Open University researching the use of Wikis and ...

... 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 ... Net Generation Using Wikis in Education CC Learn , using Creative Commons licensing for education Finding ... the 21st Century pages. Participatory Media Literacy : wiki-based curriculum combines texts that address the ...

... user virtual environments (MUVES) like Second Life (SL) can support "rigorous learning". Given the right kinds of ... Presenters note This is a slightly edited version of the presentation I gave on Second LIFE on Oct 2, 2006 ... . John Bransford from UW talk about his experience with research in Second Life SueMaeLA Escape: Will there be audio ... persistent virtual world "Second Life." John Bransford: Hello everyone. This is amazing. I want to start with a few ... amazing work on Second Life, and for helping set up this space Donnagh McDonnagh: /chew John Bransford: Third, ...

... 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 ... how you present yourself in online environment (as a real person online). - If students can't get a sense of you as ...

... out of the traditional classroom and into the hands of learners wherever they may be. You can find me in Second Life ... traditionally created by faculty. Then there is the personal learning environment or PLE. In a PLE learners take ... combination of tools and technologies - presentations, lectures, discussions, podcasts, blogs, wikis, video, audio, and any ... over their learning environments and when, where, why, and how they learn. So at face value it appears that LMSs and ... learning environments. Is there a middle ground where learners can take advantage of PLEs and institutions can still get ...

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 ... 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? Choose ... course wiki as the basis for putting course notes, having each team put up their work, etc. We discussed several ...