... from how to navigate in Second Life to simple scripting with building, teleporting and designing Second Life training ... Yesterday, graduate student Matt Monahan and I presented at the Training 2008 conference. Our topic was "Learning in ... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

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? Just as there are considerable differences in blended learning and virtual classroom training, what are some of the ... first I want to say that we need to get away from thinking the only 3D learning envrionemnt is Second Life . Many ...

... 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 the class to a restaurant and have the students order a meal or go to a train station and have them buy a ticket or ...

Second Life and training here Kevin Shadix - Shady Learning Blog Kapp Notes: Think Virtual Worlds: Not Second ... This month's question came from a reader the June 2008 Big Question is: Second Life Training? More ... within Second Life? If you were to develop a training island in Second Life, what kind of environment and artifacts would ... 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 ...

Second Life and training here Kevin Shadix - Shady Learning Blog Kapp Notes: Think Virtual Worlds: Not Second ... This month's question came from a reader the June 2008 Big Question is: Second Life Training? More ... within Second Life? If you were to develop a training island in Second Life, what kind of environment and artifacts would ... 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 ...

... 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 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 platform of choice for 3D interactions, there will be an on-line 3D component to training programs in the very near future ... to...video games. A lot is happening in terms of using games to teach about a serious, life-threatening disease, using ...

Public health officials from the California Department of Health Services have created a massive online virtual training program. Researchers from the University of California-Davis Health System re-created a 3-D model of the California Exposition and State Fair in Second Life and conducted the training within that environment. Here is how it worked ... 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 world. Bart gave a list of different 3D worlds and provided a great comparison between a Internet Service Provider and 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 ...

Here is a list of alternatives to Second Life. Forterra Systems Inc. The company offers private, secure virtual ... The company offers creates collaborative interactive learning solutions for Federal Systems, Healthcare and Corporate Training markets. The applications offered facilitate highly interactive, self-paced learning and instructor-led, distributed team training. The flagship product is the Virtual Heroes Advanced Learning Technology (A.L.T.) platform. Major ... projects, facilitate meetings, conduct corporate training or establish a virtual office. Unisfair The ...

Learning Gets a Second Life Presenter: Anders Gronstedt, Gronstedt Group Digital natives spend more time playing video ... figure it out. - Have seen emergency responder training in 2nd life. Second Life and Training - 1200 educational ... (Cisco for example) Weekly meetings in Second Life. - Sound now available in second life!!!! Can express self through ... helping instructors do this. - Second life has own scripting language - Most of this is one-time development. A ... cutbacks on travel and travel for training. - Plus the environmental costs of instructor-led training. - We have to ...

I participated in the Train for Success weekly session today for the first time. Anders Grondstedt was traveling, but Eilif did a great job giving the attendees a quick review/update of the Virtual Worlds Conference held recently. You can get directly to the Secondlife location from his SLURL here . Read more about virtual worlds and learning in 2 of the elearning guild reports - Immersive Learning Simulations , Synchronous Learning . DevLearn - The eLearning Development Conference & Expo Co-located with the Adobe Learning Summit November 5-9, 2007 San Jose, ...

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 ... learning challenge". It is human nature to gravitate toward the familiar. Unfortunately, Instructional Designers can ...

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 consider this” to “How do we do this.” By the time Training 09 rolls around I predict we’ll ...

... let's do the learning in a 3-D virtual environment! Enter Second life. Tim and his staff have created a virtual gas station in Second Life. One where the asphalt can be removed and the major aspects of the underground layout can be observed directly. In Second life, with your avatar, you walk right beside the underground tanks. One is displayed in cross ... other examples of companies using Second Life for training purposes, feel free to share them with us by clicking the ... 3-dimensional virtual world: Second Life! With about 150 staff members and 65 trucks in its fleet, Crompco ...

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 ... and other items. The implications for training are that people will be able to act, interact and learn from each other in this virtual world. The world itself is not a training environment but training events and situations can be ... has a discussion on Second Life as a Teaching Tool as well. Also, Tim Wang's eLearning Blog has a great entry on ...

... username in Second Life? It makes formal meetings and training sessions really difficult because everybody has to ... the newness of Second Life, but I wonder, do audiences eventually learn to sit still? Or does the environment provide too ... Is it a fad? Was it a fad? I finally made my way into Second Life this week. I know, I’m a (really) late adopter, but at least I finally made it in. I went in with a group of peers, and we were evaluating Second Life’s ... Within the first few minutes of our event, we found out that several users could not get in to Second Life; they ...

... trailer/advertisement for the Virtual World community build around it. Training is the one place where promise has ... getting into this work. Scenario based role playing is a key area where Virtual Worlds have significant advantage. Training ... games/virtual worlds for learning and half are role based. Gaming is huge…average age is in late 20s. Most ... training there are also Meetings, Bloody Meetings. We can effectively use VWs for this. But we need to be careful ... year. We will see more of the collaborative benefits of Virtual Worlds due to fuel prices. So first focus on TRAINING ...

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 ...

... conference was (and will be over the next two days) available through NDU's islands in Second Life. I'm looking forward ... Learning ". He gives a brief overview of virtual worlds (a.k.a. metaverses ), and then discusses advantages and ... to go 'learn' without guidance, goals, or objectives will not lead to effective learning." Then, Monday morning, the latest version of Training & Simulation Journal arrived. The cover story was called " Gathering of ...

... finance, develop, deploy and demonstrate value for 3D learning. According to Gartner, by 2011, 80% of internet users will have a “second life” (not necessarily in Second Life). Research also indicates the most useful commercial applications of 3Di are: Education and Training, Simulation and Virtual Collaboration. Don't' get left behind ... two years of research into a “roll up your sleeves” 3D Internet Boot-Camp as part of the Training 2008 ... of 3D learning within your organization. Explore: How Virtual Social Worlds and Online Role Playing Games ...

Raph Koster, at the last Game Developers Conference ( 1 , 2 ), shocked a few people when after showing pictures of Club Penguin and Second Life - he juxtaposed those with images of Darfur and Haiti. His point was to ask why game developers are doing what they do - and if they were perhaps squandering the potential of this powerful medium in which they ... . These two pieces just have me wondering - is the learning/training industry asking itself this question? Is theer ... training and page-turners - then how do we answer the inevitable follow-on: how do we do something more meaningful and ...

25, 2008 in San Antonio, Texas. Once again, I will be presenting with Matthew Monahan (see Second Life Training ... Kapp and Matthew Monahan This informative full-day workshop examines the 3D world of Second Life from the perspective of a learner in Second Life. You should have some familiarity with Second Life and have visited the application once or ... Life and experience building, manipulating objects and learning within the 3D space. The emphasis will be on applying ... Training Takes on Virtual Feel at Hilton . Explains how the Hilton Garden Inn hotel is creating a virtual learning ...

... which I find interesting. It gives me a sense of the tools they talk about. Cammy Bean - Learning Visions Technorati (3) Twitter (3) Second Life (2) Facebook (1) RSS (1) Slideshare (1) Mel Aclaro - Business ... eLearning Learning was launched about a week ago. There has been quite a response and some great feedback. It made it to the delicious popular pages for eLearning and e-Learning . If you look at the other entries such as Jane Hart's recent top tools and Stephen Downes on The Future of Learning, that's quite good company. Several of my ...