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 ...

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

... 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

... 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 ... for correspondences and messages (like a wiki). Make sure learners have an avatar prior to class. Encourage ...

... 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 ... longer shelf-life is exciting and reminds me of an old saying. If I have a penny and you have a penny and we exchange ... . ADDITION 4) Here is another entry on the presentation along with a great video done by a summer student in my Learning ...

... three books that are helpful for learning about Second Life. Second Life Resourses . Here are some additional Second Life resources and information. Also check out the Second Life Education Wiki. __ Catalog of Recommended Books, Games ... ID Stadium which is used for in-world presentations. Today I am presenting a webinar titled " Second Life in ... 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 ...

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 ...

A good number of hours today are going toward my preparation for my upcoming class called "Learning in 3D." Today I focus on preparing the MSIT Second Life wiki for the class. It guides learners through the first few lessons for the first class and provides them with some resources. I also spent a lot of time this morning trying to set up a travel itinerary for new avatars to get a feel of the Second Life universe and what can be accomplished from an educational perspective. Feel free to check out the wiki and add any resources or other items that would be helpful. I currently ...

Learning Gets a Second Life Presenter: Anders Gronstedt, Gronstedt Group Digital natives spend more time playing video ... where we all learn from everyone. (Web 2.0) - See in wikis, blogs and podcasts Podcasting on the go - there is still ... (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.

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 ... Life has a number of resources. Karl Kapp’s MSIT Second Life wiki has lots of resources. You could also ... ’ve mentioned about last year’s introduction to second life - is possible to find it somewhere? Second Life is ... , there seem to be lots of free online tools available. I’ve bookmarked a few Second Life resources ...

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 ...

... development deal with Second Life to bring their platform to the enterprise. This is yet one more piece of the puzzle ... : Flatland 2D Learning applications integrate with Knowledge sharing repositories. The outcome here is that truly NETWORKed ... Knoweldge Sharing Spaces. I won’t go over well trodden ground on how Blogs, Wikis and Social Media sites like ... second thought. Vector 3: The 212 degree point for for both Trend 1 and 2 is when the web enters the next dimension ... seeing convergence here. Vector 4: Last , but by no means least we see how Synchronous 2D learning platforms will ...

PM ,   subquark said... Id like to throw Second Life into the mix (or my ... not currently allow. Second Life can be leveraged by eLearning providers to be an inexpensive tool for creating video ... that in Second Life). Thanks for the post! :)   At 8/03/2008 10:41 ... InfoWorld Folds Print Magazine Disruptive Changes in Learning Second Life and Learning - Tony O'Driscoll Informal Learning and New Managers - ...

... participants will use a variety of technologies. For example, participants will use blogs, Second Life, Page Flakes, attend UStream ... handled in a variety of formats: podcast, slidecast, Articulate presentation, video recording, Second Life presentation, or ... Welcome to the Connectivism and Connective Knowledge Online Course support wiki. Conference tags: CCK08 This page is ... : Properties of Networks (September 22-28) 11 Week 4: History of networked learning (September 29-October 5 ... Delivered in partnership with: Extended Education and Learning Technologies Centre, University of Manitoba ...

The second "Learning in 3D" class had a few technical difficulties. Second Life was slow and not everyone could log in ... Second Life Wiki . There is a great discussion going on under the Discussions tab. __ Recommended Games and Gadgets ... to see what types of educational environments are being created within Second Life. We had a great guest speaker, one ... Up . He also lists a number of hints for conducting a class like this in Second Life. I then distributed some note cards to the MSIT group (after some difficulty) and the students then have a chance to go back into Second Life and see ...

... 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 ...

... enterprises) will have a “second life,” but not neccessarily in Second Life.” Anyhow the story towards the i-web singularity goes something like this: SYNCHRONOUS LEARNING GOES BECOMES IMMERSIVE: The integration between traditional synchronous learning systems such as WebEX, Centra, Adobe Connect, Citrix and 3D Avatar-Mediated ... -Learning Guild Online Forums, I had to give this some attention this past week. Here is my latest back-of-napkin-turned-into ... -learning guild site. CORPORATE SOCIAL NETWORKING GOES INTERACTIVE I continue to marvel at the speed of the 3D space.

... tools: Wendy Moodle (45) Captivate (40) LMS (33) Tracy LMS (23) Second Life (6) Twitter (6 ... I'm happy to announce the launch of eLearning Learning . This is the beginning of a community portal where the ... Learning is a jump off point. The content comes from other places. Right now these are mostly posts from bloggers, but you will soon see other kinds of content appearing. The bottom line is that eLearning Learning is trying to help find and ... the way the label widget works!" Kevin Jones - Engaged Learning "I like your widget a lot. Kind of a linear ...

... even when the group is accepting Scot Headley: Quaker Meeting in Second Life Second Life focused his ... created online community projects Used a wiki for the course –most content went through the wiki, not through ... experiences. Amy Dee: Wiki-Mania Used wiki for communication with a church small group People were used to checking email, not the wiki Missed most of her presentation due to a phone call Tricia Meyer Moodle– ... to adults but not each other No evidence of learning from others’ posts Technical problems ...

... 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 professionals from education, workplace learning and continuing professional development.,  You can view the list here: Top 100 Tools for Learning Spring 2008 I've also categorised the Top 100 tools by type of tool - and you can view that list here: Learning Toolbox 2008 I'm now working on the free Summary PDF, and that should be ...

... link back to the tagger's BluePages profile IBM owns more than 50 islands in Second Life. Orientations, classes, and meetings are often held in Second Life. Barriers I then asked everyone to call out what they saw as their biggest ... just as easily have been called Web 2.0 Applications in Learning. It was designed to be a small to medium size group ... audience for examples of where they were currently using these tools as part of learning solutions. There were about 7 examples mentioned including Intuit using a Wiki-like system for customers to ask questions/get advice around taxes, using ...

... e-Clippings (Learning As Art ... showing public photos from UX Week 2007 . Make your own badge here . Me in Second Life gapingvoid ... anthropology mobile learning e-learning things you should read stat counter ... Shirky, Andrew Keen and the Luddites » August 10, 2007 Learning Styles and ...

Lots of new training videos, linking Google Lively to Second Life and embed live web pages into Powerpoint presentations ... -ws-sidebar { width: 100px; } Pauls E-Learning Resources ... ! W elcome to my E-learning resources website, my name is Paul Andrews and I am a Learning Technologist . On this site you will find my favourite links to free ... 4 teachers has been added to the main Twitter page. This is a Wiki listing teachers using Twitter grouped by ...

Last Summer Second Life was all the rage in the popular media. In fact, one of the most linked (and found) pages on this blog are the Second Life Tutorials  ( more SL posts ). However, as much as SL gathered media attention, the bigger interest for most of us was the discipline of engineering simulation and data visualization. While conducting some ... Learning Wiki . Please see these updated wiki sections: Software Engineering Learning Blogs and Pods ... Tutorials  - learn by doing! Many Eyes Innovation Podcast - Science and Technology Podcasts ...

... few of the lessons I have learned. Mostly about the power of the network and Web 2.0 tools. First, I learned how far a digital asset can travel if people find it has value.One of my student's YouTube videos Educational Uses of Second Life ... information.As learning professionals we need to find out what nuggets interest learners...not what courses to design. Second, I ... learning when I taught a class this summer using blogs, wikis, YouTube and other tools that required the students to create ... The ASTD Big question this month is What did you learn about learning in 2007? I learn so much all the time ...

... tools as part of learning solutions. There were about 7 examples mentioned including Intuit using a Wiki-like system for ... 50 islands in Second Life. Orientations, classes, and meetings are often held in Second Life. Barriers I then ... ... Great post, really well laid out. I particularly found IBMs use of Second Life interesting (and their ... -Learning Trends eLearning 2.0 LMS Web 2.0 Enterprise 2.0 Personal Learning Informal Learning Corporate eLearning eLearning Design Authoring Tools Rapid e-Learning Tools eLearning (e-Learning) e-Learning ...

... e-Clippings (Learning As Art ... showing public photos from UX Week 2007 . Make your own badge here . Me in Second Life gapingvoid ... anthropology mobile learning e-learning things you should read stat counter ... Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online » October 25, 2006 Six Word Learning ...