... 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 ... and Tricks to Create a Learning Space in Second Life . Actually, it is really a listing of great SL resources and ideas ... distance learning educators, college professors and other teachers communicate with students through 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 ...

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 Seven ... discussing our article at IBM's location in Second Life. __ Recommended Games and Gadgets Recommended ...

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 ...

... 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 ... the front end for students to learn a software tool? OUCH! If I were teaching a graduate-level distance course that ... . 2. SL has a very steep learning curve. New users start off at Orientation Island. It can take almost 20 hours to ... 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.

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 ... that the next generation of Second Life will displace tools like WebEx for many online events. Once you add in ...

Exposition and State Fair in Second Life and conducted the training within that environment. Here is how it worked ... (principal investigator and a professor of psychiatry at UC-Davis) said his team also built quiz tools to assess how well people have grasped what they've learned. He said he believes the project was a success because they made the virtual ... Public Safety Officials Practice for Real-Life Threats _ Catalog of Recommended Books, Games and Gadgets ...

... that virtual worlds are first and foremost social spaces. Virtual worlds are synchronous tools which means you need more ... ) 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, ...

Language Tony Karrer - Second Life as a Learning Tool Virtual Worlds & Learning Taruna Goel - Catch my views on Second Life and training here Kevin Shadix - Shady Learning Blog Kapp Notes: Think Virtual Worlds: Not Second ... Tricks to Create a Learning Space in Second Life Mick Leyden - Can we possibly use Second Life? G-Cube - e-Learning and Second Life - How viable is it? Donald Clark - 10 reasons not to use Second Life in learning Peter Isackson ... This month's question came from a reader the June 2008 Big Question is: Second Life Training?

Language Tony Karrer - Second Life as a Learning Tool Virtual Worlds & Learning Taruna Goel - Catch my views on Second Life and training here Kevin Shadix - Shady Learning Blog Kapp Notes: Think Virtual Worlds: Not Second ... Tricks to Create a Learning Space in Second Life Mick Leyden - Can we possibly use Second Life? G-Cube - e-Learning and Second Life - How viable is it? Donald Clark - 10 reasons not to use Second Life in learning Peter Isackson ... This month's question came from a reader the June 2008 Big Question is: Second Life Training?

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 ... people getting into Second Life don't understand it. Second Life is a Synchronous tool which means, you need more than ... works but its not productive or fun with one person. Second Life works best for learning when the following ...

I have been getting some grief around the web for my post suggesting that SL is not a training tool. May I beg the community for some help? Please respond to this post with use cases, examples either real or theoretical, of people learning in Second Life.

Elena at Lively Learning posted some comments about Second Life for education in response to my liveblogging of the TCC Keynote Why do we need a Second Life? (Her original post is in Russian; the Google translation gave me enough ... , there seem to be lots of free online tools available. I’ve bookmarked a few Second Life resources previously. For just getting started using Second Life, these video tutorials are really helpful. I haven’t spent much ... ’ve mentioned about last year’s introduction to second life - is possible to find it somewhere? Second Life ...

Found via Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development A great introduction to using Second Life as a teaching / learning tool. Video embedded below - didn't show in my blog reader. A few thoughts ... 1. I've said for a while 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 ...

Here is a list of alternatives to Second Life. Forterra Systems Inc. The company offers private, secure virtual ... networking tools build right in. The flagship product, ProtoSphere is build from the ground up for learning. It contains SCORM ... , 3rd party system integrations, and tools to create and edit 3D content and scenarios. Icarus Studios The company offers tools and products for createing Massively Multiplayer Oline environments and virtual worlds. The flagship Icarus ... systems. This includes compatibility with industry standard tools such as 3ds Max, Collada, and other 3D ...

Every week or so I hear about a company looking to Second Life as a teaching environment. First, I have to say that Second Life is a great Web 2.0/massively multiplayer environment. I respect the ability of people to make money in Second Life. I respect the ability of people to "hang" in Second Life. I think it is great that companies are prototyping visual and structural designs in Second Life. I suggest everyone listen to the Business Week podcast . Having said all of that, Second Life, as is, is not a teaching tool. It is content free. It is closer to a virtual classroom tool, or even ...

In the corporate learning conference organised by George Siemens, Steve Mahaley was second to give a presentation on ... 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 and David Jonassen who based their theories on 'Learning by doing' and social interaction to enhance education. Steve ...

With much talk and hype about Second Life and the benefits that it can have for creating interactive learning environment, why might begin to wonder where the examples of using Second Life are. For an excellent use case of Second Life, I would refer readers to Dr. Karl Kapp's recent blogs over the summer about a class that he conducted entirely in Second Life (and also integrated some Web 2.0 technologies). Throughout the summer, he offered excellent tips and trials of ... fade), you should read his 15 August post . He accurately reflects that 3D metaverses are just tools (with their ...

Clark Aldrich's recent post on LCB - The Learning Circuits Blog: Second Life is not a teaching tool - has me wondering what he thinks a "teaching tool" is? Having said all of that, Second Life, as is, is not a teaching tool. It is ... says - Second Life is a teaching tool. I personally believe that the next generation of Second Life that gets around ... content, doesn't that become a teaching tool. How about the ability to fly around the solar system? Could you maybe learn ... from something: mostly, I worry that educational simulations will be lumped together with Second Life Not sure the ...

Basically Second Life is the Matrix , as in, "Wake Up Neo, the Matrix has you." You can learn a little more by checking out my previous entry on the subject, Get a "Second Life." Second Life is a virtual world in which people can ... has a discussion on Second Life as a Teaching Tool as well. Also, Tim Wang's eLearning Blog has a great entry on the ... and other items. The implications for training are that people will be able to act, interact and learn from each ... created in this environment. For example, you can fly around the solar system to learn about planets and their orbits.

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 ...

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 ...

... 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 ... for backchannel while in SL Learning environment should include communication tools content variety of course ... 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 ...

Yesterday I deliverd a one day workshop to 20 learning leaders at the beautiful Rancho Bernardo resort in San Diego. This was a great turnout given that this conference caters to high level decision makers in enterprise learning ... learning. Much of our afternoon discussion centered around how to overcome barriers to adoption, whether to leverage open ... . I am very encouraged that the dialogue amond learning leaders has progressed over the past year from “Should we ... has forever changed Business, can Learning be far Behind Market economies typically are characterized by ...

... been met but it does leverage creative component. Virtual reality as tool for simulation and scenarios is a historical ... games/virtual worlds for learning and half are role based. Gaming is huge…average age is in late 20s. Most ... are but one tool. Next stage for organizations will be about resolving social elements of work as we are no longer ... patience to learn. People don’t want technology they want magic. In the words of Jean Luc Picard…JUST ...

... and Second Life - which move significantly up the list Jing - (ascreen capture/screencasting tool) which is ... The Top 100 Tools for Learning Spring 2008 list has now been finalised from the contributions of 155 learning ... : Top 100 Tools for Learning Spring 2008 I've also categorised the Top 100 tools by type of tool - and you can ... tools up and down the list as well as an analysis of the state of e-learning.   Here are some summary points ... tools to manage one's personal learning, productivity and performance is still as important as last year. But the ...

Corporate eLearning eLearning Design Authoring Tools Rapid e-Learning Tools eLearning (e-Learning) e-Learning Software Blended e-Learning e-Learning Tools Open Source eLearning e-Learning ROI and Metrics ... complete RAD SCORM e-learning development tool from the business focussed Open Source Open Elms project. I think ... works written in the tool itself. This is definitely e-learning and not e-reading. http://www.openelms.org/lms/ecourses/e ... said... Thanks, good information on rapid e-learning tools Who ever controls ...

The Stingy Scholar How to learn for free on the web. Tuesday, January 17, 2006 Nuvvos Learning Tools Looking to put your class on-line? Like Moodle , but want ... (21) psychology (1) research (15) science (44) second life (1) sports (7) textbooks (8) theology + anthropology (7) tools (1) travel (8 ... or a chance to make a few extra bucks, Nuvvo is providing the tools. Looking forward to seeing how people use ...

... agents. What I learned from her is that we should provide support tools first and think about formal training second. In ... too distant future.) After lunch I went to “I’m Busy Enough…What Do I Need a Second Life For?” mostly because Angela White (who I met at the conference) was so enthusiastic about Second Life. I went in as a skeptic and left intrigued. It does have applications in the learning space, but probably not in my organization. Alan Levine from NMC presented the session and “demystified” Second Life for me. I’ve heard of it, but ...