... at data. This is how I led off my earlier post: "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 ...

... tanker truck onto the virtual premises to simulate filling of the underground tanks.Are you in Second Life? Do you ... 3-dimensional virtual world: Second Life! With about 150 staff members and 65 trucks in its fleet, Crompco services gas ... 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 ...

... tanker truck onto the virtual premises to simulate filling of the underground tanks.Are you in Second Life? Do you ... 3-dimensional virtual world: Second Life! With about 150 staff members and 65 trucks in its fleet, Crompco services gas ... 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 ...

... component. Virtual reality as tool for simulation and scenarios is a historical artifact here. Can do deterministic (simulations) and non-deterministic (social interaction) scenarios. Vastpark, Wonderland etc allow the technically savvy ...

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 research recently, I became aware of an excellent visualization seminar series from Duke University. Like most research ... one link led to another ... which led to another, etc. Thus, here are the fruits of my labor with brief descriptions ...

... and 30,000 people Others also doing this as well (Cisco for example)Weekly meetings in Second Life.- Sound now available in second life!!!!Can express self through avatar. Self-expression a real strength.- More potent than video ... helping instructors do this.- Second life has own scripting language- Most of this is one-time development. A consultant ... Learning Gets a Second LifePresenter: Anders Gronstedt, Gronstedt GroupDigital natives spend more time playing video ... doing research. Most still trying to figure it out.- Have seen emergency responder training in 2nd life.Second Life ...

... markets.Education is a big enterprise behaving like a cottage industry.Example - World of Warcraft, Second Life ... in these worlds. eg. 2nd life - over 100 terabytes of date created by the "residents" (5x the Library of Congress)If ... - Physica engines- Pre-existing simulations- Event scripting the hardest part - game level design and assignments. Sadly ...

Gamer 4.0 - Second Life- What activities give me most return?- Can I trust this person?- What can we create together?- More ... part of performance support.Remember - right tool for right type of teaching.- Simulations + Save zone to practice. A ... video and virtual simulation. + Problem after develop branching simulation - either know or none. Maybe have a real ... into the simulation. + Can also embed video. Remember video does not equal interactive. + Video best when people ... behavior.Summary- Casual games- Leverage gadgets- Build community- Reconfigure training program- Simulations / Virtual ...

... the foundation of a learning communityAudience - training in Second Life. Docs havenâ¬"t used 2nd life. Have seen some ... - people constructing replicas of on the ground classrooms. Doing same thing in 2nd life can do in real life (one guy talking ... the one session I attended a year ago - has there been no change?)Have seen some simulation activitiesPeople really ... - Research assignments - seek out and present additional resources- Group work on case studies- Simulations- Blogs- ...

SLCC Second Life Community Convention *Supernova *SXSW Interactive *Virtual Worlds. Produced by Chris Sherman. ... OK...here is a HUGE list of conferences, primarily developed with a focus on games, simulations etc. I am in the ... ://www.socialgamingsummit.com 2008 Training & Simulation Industry Symposium (TSIS)Jun 18-19, 2008 Orlando, FL Flash in ... land management (Germany). *ISAGA International Simulation and Gaming Association annual conference. *Learning Futures ... and simulation community (business, industry, academic, governmental). *NAB World's largest electronic media ...

Here is a USA Today article on artificial intelligence in Second Life. Based on a project I'm currently involved in, this has proven to be a bit challenging (and limiting), but as the article points out, Second Life offers some great advantages for advancing AI:Inexpensive platform for testingFocusing on the code/algorithms/etc. without figuring out the roboticsLots of user inputAbility to accomplish virtual (put realistic) ...

... available through NDU's islands in Second Life. I'm looking forward to a couple of days of seeing how much growth there has ... ; Simulation Journal arrived. The cover story was called "Gathering of Avatars: Harnessing the potential of virtual worlds".

... intellectually.Exaggerate the consequences of NOT having the knowledge.Second Life v. Simulation- Second Life - no explicit Goals- Simulation - must have explicit goal. + Make sure that they can't do it by chance. Have to be able to get to it through ... effective - template, storyboard out. Use captivate1) Difference between simulation, scenario, game (see ILS report)- Simulation - model of a system. (relationships).- Scenario - 2nd step - to a goal state. (Microsoft, very prescriptive)- Game ... save.What makes compelling simulation- Effective learning principles: feedback, novelty, context- Compelling simulation ...

... oriented education.- Class sessions now common in Second Life. Linden Lab now has resources for educators (SimTeach) + Now a Second Life best practices in Education conference (May 2007)- Computer supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL ... , like me). Kingdom of Hearts - like immersive learning simulation. Requires so many more people (over 200) to develop ... - how do you expect them to learn it as a team?Vision taking shape- World of Warcraft - Immersive Learning Simulation ...

... simulation hosted within Second Life. Heâ¬"s also working in collaboration with the nursing school at nearby Centralia ... which reproduce life-threatening conditions in a safe â¬Üvirtualâ¬" environment. I've written about Second Life before and it seems to me with the work of simulation pioneers like John Miller, the potential of Second Life as a simulator are being slowly unveiled. I contacted John Miller in Second Life (his avatar's name is JS Vavoom) and he let me view the ... Miller's nursing simulator but you don't have a Second Life account? No worries! John has made a video tour of ...

If you were running a business and your clientele rose from 3 million to 11 million in just one year, then people would be buzzing about you too. Thatâ¬"s what has occurred on Second Life (SL) in the 2007 calendar year.Maybe thereâ¬"s been some buzz about Second Life (SL) in distance education circles for awhile now but the massive increase in users is ... simulation technologies. However, if I were teaching a graduate-level chemistry course that required synchronous student ... now, I view it as 100% experimental - it is simply an intriguing social simulation environment. Are you in SL? What ...

8220;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! Attend this ...

Immediate, Important Shift 847 7 3 Second Life and Learning 837 4 11 Shift in eLearning from ... 237 5 12 Learning and Networking with a Blog (Deleted Scenes) 106 1 12 Software Simulation eLearning (w/ links to Tools) 1,724 2 11 Second Life and Learning 837 4 11 Shift in ... 9 24 Software Simulation eLearning (w/ links to Tools) 1,724 2 11 Personal Learning for ... Tool Satisfaction 667