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    Content Is Infrastructure | Terra Incognita - A Penn State World Campus Blog
    Sunday, November 30, 2008
    ... opened2008 (1) second life (1) Archives November 2008 October 2008 September ... not learning objects were dead or alive. However, to declare content dead in favor of the coolness of community ... from which we all teach and learn - the internet, textbooks, library books, journal articles, etc. - were ’ ... best, we would be reduced entirely to purely oral methods of teaching and learning. It may seem childish to point out something so obvious, but content is a critical part of the infrastructure of education. Second, I want to suggest that ...
    		 Back to the Wild West
    Friday, November 28, 2008
    If you wanted to provide someone with an impression of the Wild West, you could show them an old John Wayne film, you could create a virtual frontier town in Second Life, or you could just introduce them to eBay. Over the past couple of years I have had cause to buy and sell some fairly high-ticket audio-visual items. First I bought a couple of ... ago I decided to sell my both my consumer camcorder and a pro Sony camcorder that I had acquired second hand. With the ... learning experience, I thought, and I was not caught out. I'd just re-list. It appears that my Nigerian friends have ...
    		 Usability in eLearning " eLearning Weekly
    Thursday, November 27, 2008
    Video in eLearning How do you build eLearning courses? So, really, who is using Second Life for eLearning ... eLearning Weekly Tips, Tricks, and Lessons Learned by B.J. Schone Home About ... Design , Development , InstructionalDesign , Learning , Tools , Training , Usability , UsabilityTesting ... systems that are more user-friendly. A-ha! So if we develop learning materials/solutions that aren’t usable, well ... support tools, learning 2.0 tools, and pretty much anything else that we introduce to our learners. We should at least ...
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  • Second Life Training Presentation
    ... 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 ...
    Kapp Notes - Thursday, February 7, 2008 - Comments
  • ASTD Second Life Webinar
    ... 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 ...
    Kapp Notes - Thursday, February 21, 2008 - Comments
  • The Office in Second Life...CNN in Second Life
    ... the network is encouraging residents of Second Life to share their own "SL I-Reports" about events occurring within the virtual world. "The thing we most hope to gain by having a CNN presence in Second Life is to learn about virtual worlds ... 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 -- ...
    Kapp Notes - Tuesday, November 13, 2007 - Comments
  • Much Happening in Second Life
    ... 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 ...
    Kapp Notes - Tuesday, November 6, 2007 - Comments
  • Creating Learning Spaces in Second Life
    ... 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 ...
    Kapp Notes - Wednesday, May 28, 2008 - Comments
  • Second Life Session
    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 ...
    Kapp Notes - Tuesday, July 29, 2008 - Comments
  • Questions about Second Life
    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 ...
    Kapp Notes - Thursday, September 25, 2008 - Comments
  • Gadgets, Games and Gizmos: Second Life Class Project
    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 assistance or help, feel free to do so. We are in the process of purchasing an island and setting up for the class ...
    Kapp Notes - Friday, March 9, 2007 - Comments
  • Total Chaos: First Second Life ID Class...Total Fun
    ... 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 off of orientation island before they can teleport (we had some stuck students) A good prerequisite would be for ...
    Kapp Notes - Monday, July 9, 2007 - Comments
  • Second Life Created Virtual Documentary
    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 ...
    Kapp Notes - Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - Comments
  • Big IBM/Second Life Announcement this Week!
    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 the ... its own sections of the Second Life Grid behind a firewall, allowing the company's users to come and go between ...
    Kapp Notes - Friday, April 4, 2008 - Comments
  • Think Virtual Worlds: Not Second Life
    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 ...
    Kapp Notes - Sunday, June 15, 2008 - Comments
  • Fair and Balanced
    ... 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 ...
    Kapp Notes - Friday, February 1, 2008 - Comments
  • Understanding Virtual Worlds Articles and Links
    ... 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 ...
    Kapp Notes - Friday, May 25, 2007 - Comments
  • Is Second Life 100% experimental?
    ... be buzzing about you too. That's what has occurred on Second Life (SL) in the 2007 calendar year . Maybe there's been some buzz about Second Life (SL) in distance education circles for awhile now but the massive increase in users is ... . 2. SL has a very steep learning curve. New users start off at Orientation Island. It can take almost 20 hours to ... the front end for students to learn a software tool? OUCH! If I were teaching a graduate-level distance course that ... tempted to run it on SL. The up-front investment of the steep learning curve might be worth it in this special case (i.e.
    eLearning Acupuncture - Saturday, February 23, 2008 - Comments
  • Comparing 2D and 3D Synchronous Learning
    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 ...
    Kapp Notes - Friday, July 20, 2007 - Comments
  • Gadgets, Games and Gizmos: ESL in SL
    This weekend I attended an English as a Second Language (ESL) class. It was a surreal experience for two reasons. 1) I already speak English (unfortunately, the only language I do speak except for a little French which I continually butcher, oui) 2) the class was in Second Life (SL). The instructor, Kip, separated the attendees into two groups and ... 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 ...
    Kapp Notes - Tuesday, February 13, 2007 - Comments
  • AG08 session I'm Busy Enough ... What Do I Need a Second Life For? by Alan Levine
    ... 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 ...
    Ignatia Webs - Wednesday, April 16, 2008 - Comments
  • Problem-Based Learning in 3D 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 ...
    Kapp Notes - Wednesday, April 16, 2008 - Comments
  • Summer 2008: Learning in 3D Class
    ... 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 ...
    Kapp Notes - Friday, July 18, 2008 - Comments
  • Summer 2008 Learning in 3D Class Three
    Here we are sitting around the conference room discussing our visits to far away places in the metaverse. This 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 ...
    Kapp Notes - Monday, July 21, 2008 - Comments
  • 2008 Summer SL Class Underway
    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 ...
    Kapp Notes - Tuesday, July 8, 2008 - Comments
  • Study Abroad...Virtually
    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 ...
    Kapp Notes - Monday, July 21, 2008 - Comments
  • Learning about 3D Worlds with Tony O' Driscoll
    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 will be excellent and informative and give you an entirely new perspective on 3D learning. Here is a brief description ...
    Kapp Notes - Sunday, December 23, 2007 - Comments
  • Second Life and Learning
    I just read through a great post by Rich Hoeg which talks about his learning around Second Life. A few of the things he points you to: Wikipedia article on Second Life Harvard Course that uses Second Life (prior post ) Overview of course and link to intro Second Life Video Lectures Course Wiki A Second Education - A blog dedicated to education in a Second Life Educational Opportunities of Second Life - Educause How Not to Teach in Second Life - An interview with the Second Life founder These are great resources and will likely open your eyes a bit. I ...
    eLearning Technology - Wednesday, November 8, 2006 - Comments
  • Designing a 3D Learning event
    ... 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 ...
    Kapp Notes - Wednesday, August 1, 2007 - Comments
  • Some Facts about Immersive Learning Worlds
    ... 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 Jeans ... Learning and wanted some information about what it meant and how it is being used. So, here are some interesting facts and figures about immersive learning environments. But first, let's define the term. Immersive Learning-An ...
    Kapp Notes - Tuesday, November 4, 2008 - Comments
  • Machinimia Guided Tour of a Guided Tour
    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 ...
    Kapp Notes - Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - Comments
  • Learning in 3D Student Learning Archetype Video
    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 ...
    Kapp Notes - Friday, August 8, 2008 - Comments
  • Virtual Jeans=Real Jeans
    ... 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 ...
    Kapp Notes - Wednesday, March 5, 2008 - Comments