... 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 ...

... webinar called Simple vs Complex Spaces . Tom has written a great deal on Second Life and innovative learning content ... Yesterday, Tony O'Driscoll , Matthew Monahan and I gave an ASTD Webinar on the topic of Second Life. We talked about ... 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 ...

... virtual world. "The thing we most hope to gain by having a CNN presence in Second Life is to learn about virtual worlds ... Second Life an I-Report via IM or a Notecard. __ Recommended Games and Gadgets Recommended Books Content Guide ... 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 -- ...

... 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 Life workshop as part of the Live and Online Learning series. It was a great class. The students ranged from no ... . Discussion in Second Life The thing I like about Second Life is that I learn so much every time I teach a ...

... 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 ... Second Life. Second Life Tools for Teaching --Learn how to create your own prims, make use of virtual camera tools and ... distance learning educators, college professors and other teachers communicate with students through Second Life ...

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 ... . Here is my land for you to check out. __ Recommended Games and Gadgets Recommended Books Content ...

Tear Down the Walls Study Abroad...Virtually Summer 2008: Learning in 3D Class Second Life for Health Creating Learning Spaces in Second Life Problem-Based Learning in 3D Environment Second Life Webinar-Today The ... 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 ...

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 ...

... in Second Life. We also had Heather demo some Second Life stuff through application sharing within Breeze. It worked ... Tonight was the first "Learning in 3D Class" it was totally fun and totally chaotic. It reminded me a lot of the first e-learning classes that I taught, no one was really sure what to do, the software would crash from time-to-time and students and instructors where figuring out what needed to be done. So here are a few lessons learned: Avatar must be ... technology and I am sure the other classes will be more tame...maybe. __ Recommended Games and Gadgets Recommended ...

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 ...

IBM Opens New 3D Virtual Healthcare Island on Second Life __ Catalog of Recommended Books, Games and Gadgets ... 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 ...

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 ...

... butcher, oui) 2) the class was in Second Life (SL). The instructor, Kip, separated the attendees into two groups and ... This weekend I attended an English as a Second Language (ESL) class. It was a surreal experience for two reasons ... good rapport between the students and the instructor. Many of whom used that medium as their only method of learning ... certainly see the potential and the promise of learning in 3D for a language. For example, the instructor could move ... language. Special thanks to Deanna! __ Recommended Games and Gadgets Recommended Books Content ...

... understanding how to navigate and make sense of Second Life.(See Breaking the Second Life High Learning Curve ) Ok, so on ... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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 ... own interactive synchronous learning as well as providing a maturity matrix of the use of 3D synchronous learning ...

... 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 ... The Second Life wiki of the NMC campus Second Life, and virtual worlds in general, are high on the hype curve this ... interaction and creativity in Second Life * How an organization can effectively conduct meetings and events in ...

... as well. The game is called PowerUp . Players journey to planet Helios and deal with ecological problems. Once there the learners race to save the plant as they build solutions that are ecologically friendly. Playing the game, students work together in teams to investigate the 3D game environment and learn about the environmental disasters that threaten the game world and its inhabitants Players meet Expert Engineer characters and experience the great diversity of the field ... IBM has released a 3D game to teach engineering concepts to kids. It comes complete with lesson plans for ...

... 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 students are creating Second Life focused lesson plans which incorporate the Learning Archetypes and will soon ... Preston providing instruction and answering questions in Second Life. So the second week of the summer ... teamed up at several conferences as co-presenters (see ASTD TechKnowledge 2008, Lots of Fun and Second Life Training ... 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 ...

... was an exciting class, we first learned to create note cards and then learning about Learning Archetypes in Second Life which are picking up some momentum. We also learned some ideas about developing lessons within Second Life in terms of what needs to be created to make a successful educational experience in a 3D world. We then took a tour of Second Life with some spots that I have visited in the past. The students kept a note card of their travels. Then we met in the ... Recommended Books, Games and Gadgets Recommended Games and Gadgets Recommended Books Content ...

Once again I am teaching a class using virtual worlds, this class "Learning in 3D" will include the use of both ProtoSphere and Second Life. The quick six week class will cover just the basics of navigating in 3D worlds, building a small structure and learning about the different type of environments available. The first class had the usual Second Life ... my graduate class are teaching some summer undergraduate Freshmen how Second Life works. So my students are creating lesson plans to teach the Freshman how to operate Second Life and how to create a basic shelter in Second Life. It ...

Here is a great article about how learning about other cultures in a 3D world like Second Life can translate into the real world. The article is called Study abroad through Second Life Here are some quotes from the article: If you learn about a culture ... and your behavior changes in Second Life while you're interacting with another culture, when you ... visited a Second Life re-creation of Darfur and made an online pilgrimage to Mecca. Most notably, they met regularly with a ... another's culture. The US State Department has begun exploring Second Life as a means to introduce people to American ...

Here is a machinimia done as a class assignment. It is on the topic of guided tours (a very popular topic in the Learning in 3D class for the machinimia project.) Also, if you are interested in lesson plans for Second Life check out the class site wiki. __ Catalog of Recommended Books, Games and Gadgets Recommended Games and Gadgets Recommended Books Content ...

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 ... will be excellent and informative and give you an entirely new perspective on 3D learning. Here is a brief description of his workshop. And as a Christmas Present: Use VIP Code TTZE6 to receive $150 off Registration! __ Recommended Games ...

... content to facilitate the learning. Immersive Learning includes the concepts of games, online Simulations and Virtual ... with simulations/scenarios and 36% plan to do more with serious games. There is still going to be a steep learning ... €œsecond life", but not necessarily in Second Life." The use of virtual worlds as learning platforms is hitting the â ... flipping virtual switches in the virtual world of Second Life. The University of Maryland simulated a highway emergency ... after the person watches them being manufactured in the virtual world of Second Life. (see Virtual Jeans=Real ...

... basic navigation. Start with an orientation exercise. In Second Life (SL), make sure avatars are off of the Orientation ... Here are some thoughts I have about designing a 3D learning event...please add other thoughts...I am working on a paper about designing learning events for 3D worlds and welcome input from others concerning the proper design for these types of learning events. Prior to Class Make sure everyone can access the 3D world prior to the actual event...have ... world when class is not officially meeting. Provide opportunities for after class, informal, peer-to-peer learning ...

Today, I received a video posted on YouTube created by one of my students that explains a learning archetype from my Learning in 3D Class . This summer one of the options of the machinimia assignment was to create a video based on a learning archetype . More videos will be coming soon.Enjoy. __ Catalog of Recommended Books, Games and Gadgets Recommended Games and Gadgets Recommended Books Content ...

... video game. You know instantly if you are on target or wrong. Here is an article Swedes open embassy in Second Life of course it is about Sweden opening an Embassy in Second Life courtesy of Katie Rebilas. If you still don't think 3D worlds are important, you really need to look at what is going on. Even if Second Life does not become the learning ... to...video games. A lot is happening in terms of using games to teach about a serious, life-threatening disease, using a ... prepared, pick up Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning __ Recommended Games and Gadgets Recommended Books ...

... issue of APICS Magazine ... There is a Second Life factory called the Double Happiness Jeans factory. The factory ... Second Life and has no physical assets or inventory. The only place the factory exists is in a virtual, three-dimensional world known as Second Life. The virtual factory creates real-world products using Second Life to design and customize ... jeans enter the real world through a printing process. The data gathered in the Second Life software production process ... great blog posting from the Business Communicators of Second Life Blog : Virtual/RealWorld Custom ...