Yesterday, graduate student Matt Monahan and I presented at the Training 2008 conference. Our topic was "Learning in ... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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 ... . 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

... 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 ... . ADDITION 4) Here is another entry on the presentation along with a great video done by a summer student in my Learning ...

... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ...

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 ...

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 Worlds ... 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 ...

... need: An instructor or facilitator who is present to guide the activity and set the parameters for interaction. Other ... ) Teamwork is an essential element in the instructional process. Or one-on-one role-plays add to the learning of the student ... rare until more people learn to comfortably use the software of virtual worlds. __ Catalog of Recommended Books, ...

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 ... three books that are helpful for learning about Second Life. Second Life Resourses . Here are some additional Second ... 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 ...

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 ... works but its not productive or fun with one person. Second Life works best for learning when the following ...

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 ... 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 ... supporting Bart's presentation at his blog called Talk at Bloomsburg University . __ Recommended Games and ...

... 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 going ... need to involve the kids and gain insights from their perspective. I look forward to learning a lot tomorrow in the ...

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 ... favourite class = recess, he concluded that the best learning activities are those using all of our senses to interact with an educational environment. Several learning theorists were put onto display: Lev Vygotsky , John Dewey ...

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 ... ) - the coma without the inconvenience. Learning no longer top-down, expert knows all. (Web 1.0). - Emerging ...

Networking & Second Life: Uses for E-Learning " - North American Council for Online Learning (NACOL); NACOL Webinar ... 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) ...

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 ... answered questions about life, religion, history, etc. It was a fantastic learning experience where you learned ...

... 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 ... will forever reshape learning and business? Or are they this season's over-hyped fad? In the article he VWs have too much potential for learning professionals to ignore. But Virtual Worlds should not be used to automate existing learning ... learning in VWs. To avoid these pitfalls, let's explore how VWs work, how they are being used in learning, who the ...

Following Brent's lead in his post Corporate eLearning Development: SL inworld presentation: How People Learn , I ... teachers) - learning new classroom etiquette - figuring out how to structure the class to take advantage of (or minimize the 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 ... using the camera controls, getting kicked out during the presentation) and did not pick up as much of the message as ...

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 ...

... but there is a learning curve Why Second Life Education No subject left behind! Many classroom limitations ... golfers in the world Schools are not the only places to go for learning How Second Life Education Active ... ;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 ...

Presented by Cynthia M. Calongne, Colorado Technical University OK, I admit that I’m not really expecting to be able to apply anything in Second Life for my current job. However, Cynthia is a sweetie and a great presenter, and ... be more tolerant and accepting of change and problems. Dr. Dobbs Life 2.0: http://www.life20.net/ Second Life is a ... through each step with an example Edumuve : sites of interest to educators in Second Life She has “stuff ... Teaching in a Virtual World People: sense of presence Places: learning environment Content: course design ...

Here are some links to some postings in my blog that provide additonal information about Second Life. Second Life Resourses The Office in Second Life...CNN in Second Life The Learning Webvolution. (article written with Tony O'Driscoll.) Second Life...Its Synchronous Discussion of some of the negative aspects of SL. Fair and Balanced Hope you found thess links helpful. __ Catalog of Recommended Books, Games and Gadgets Recommended Games and Gadgets Recommended Books Content ...

The following invite is from the LIFE Center blog - An NSF Science of Learning Center : Dr. John Bransford, prominent education psychology researcher and editor of the book How People Learn, will be giving his first presentation in the popular virtual world of Second Life. Dr. Bransford is the director of The Learning in Informal and Formal Environments (LIFE) Center, a National Science Foundation (NSF) Science of Learning Center. He will present his latest thoughts on ... presentation will take place in Second Life at Palladium/120/120 on Monday, October 2 from noon to 1:30pm Pacific Time.

... ssential Solutions . Who provided an innovative solution of using Second Life to develop the instruction. E-ssential solutions present their Second Life Solution. They also included a large portion of on-the-job instruction. They group of three provided a good presentation with insightful information and ideas of how to use Second Life within the classroom. E-ssential Solutions presents their budget to the CAC member. The second team was named E ... As a culmination of our Corporate Track, students are required to answer an e-learning request for proposal ...