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 were ... two pieces just have me wondering - is the learning/training industry asking itself this question? Is theer any expectation that it should do so? If we do ask the question and the answer is something other than compliance training and ...

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 were ... two pieces just have me wondering - is the learning/training industry asking itself this question? Is theer any expectation that it should do so? If we do ask the question and the answer is something other than compliance training and ...

I certainly haven't got all the Second Life lingo yet, but I'll try to pose my question here anyway. I was looking at a virtual conference in Second Life coming up that had some health care topics involved. Thinking about this I thought neat, I could register and give it a try to see what was covered and how they even do a conference in SL.I then wondered though, if I wanted to create/send coworkers into SL for a virtual experience how would that be done. I realize it would take some time to get land and create my area (Sim? is that right?), but then what. Would you just tell your ...

I certainly haven't got all the Second Life lingo yet, but I'll try to pose my question here anyway. I was looking at a virtual conference in Second Life coming up that had some health care topics involved. Thinking about this I thought neat, I could register and give it a try to see what was covered and how they even do a conference in SL.I then wondered though, if I wanted to create/send coworkers into SL for a virtual experience how would that be done. I realize it would take some time to get land and create my area (Sim? is that right?), but then what. Would you just tell your ...

Kudos to Tim and his staff for taking the leap to Second Life in order to meet their specific training needs. A local ... using Second Life for training purposes, feel free to share them with us by clicking the comments button below. ... 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 ...

Kudos to Tim and his staff for taking the leap to Second Life in order to meet their specific training needs. A local ... using Second Life for training purposes, feel free to share them with us by clicking the comments button below. ... 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 ...

Virtual World community build around it. Training is the one place where promise has been met but it does leverage creative ... role playing is a key area where Virtual Worlds have significant advantage. Training is always the first application he ... ;”Read it, digest it and leave it out for your boss to see.” Beyond training there are also Meetings, Bloody ... benefits of Virtual Worlds due to fuel prices. So first focus on TRAINING, then INTERNAL COLLABORATION. But beware ...

Second Life as a Learning Tool can be fantastic if you set up an environment like Plymoth Plantation - a recreation of Plymouth where actors playing the part of Native Americans and Colonists told stories and answered questions about life ... sponsor putting this together? This is good timing given the LCB Big Question is: Second Life Training.

... 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 ... doing research. Most still trying to figure it out.- Have seen emergency responder training in 2nd life.Second Life and ... 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 ...

... markets.Education is a big enterprise behaving like a cottage industry.Example - World of Warcraft, Second Life ... hear).Joint Knowledge Online Capability (JKO) - Ability to deliver joint training across the branches during real world ... forces- Coordinate overall military training efforts.Reserve and Active + International components- Time, cultural, language constraintsHost 2 of 3 capabilities- Part of training transformation initiative- Train as operate.- JKO portal for ... need (e.g. disaster response).Operational aspects- Training vital to regional commanders and combatants- Depending on ...

Gamer 4.0 - Second Life- What activities give me most return?- Can I trust this person?- What can we create together?- More ... virtual apprenticeship. + Ideal way to do training - mentorship. Problem - doesn't scale. + Try to codify through ... less training.(Obtuse software keeps me employed)Need to transfer the knowledge into the systems that we use.- Can the ... 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 ...

This month's question came from a reader the June 2008 Big Question is: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 ... views on Second Life and training hereKevin Shadix - Shady Learning BlogKapp Notes: Think Virtual Worlds: Not Second ... Second Life for Online Classes50 Tips and Tricks to Create a Learning Space in Second LifeMick Leyden - Can we possibly ...

This month's question came from a reader the June 2008 Big Question is: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 ... views on Second Life and training hereKevin Shadix - Shady Learning BlogKapp Notes: Think Virtual Worlds: Not Second ... Second Life for Online Classes50 Tips and Tricks to Create a Learning Space in Second LifeMick Leyden - Can we possibly ...

50 Tips and Tricks to Create a Learning Space in Second Life | College Degrees Resources and tools for using Second Life for education and training tags: secondlife, education Sensory Integration | Brain Rules | Several people have mentioned John Medina’s book Brain Rules. A lot of this sounds common sense, but check the footnotes on slides 2 & 3 for his rule “Sensory Integration: Stimulate more of the senses.” He has a nice chart about how much more we remember for passive/active learning with multiple senses stimulated. He cites Dale’s cone of experience, ...

SLCC Second Life Community Convention *Supernova *SXSW Interactive *Virtual Worlds. Produced by Chris Sherman. ... 28-29, 2008Rob Bowen, Chief TCM Gaming, NSC, Futures Division Medical Technology, Training and Treatment (MT3)Jun 1-3 ... ://www.socialgamingsummit.com 2008 Training & Simulation Industry Symposium (TSIS)Jun 18-19, 2008 Orlando, FL Flash ...

8221; to “How do we do this.” By the time Training 09 rolls around I predict we’ll have more than 50 people in the 3Di workshop. Lorri Freifeld (Executive Editor of Training Magazine) asked me to write a short piece on ... no longer moves in one direction from top to bottom or from teacher to learner. Instead, information has a social life ... productivity-focused training strategies and technologies is akin to attempting to play tennis with a golf club. The ...

... and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. SLEDevents Calendar of events for educators in Second Life tags ... of a model for creating incompetence–i.e., what NOT to do tags: orgculture, training Information Don't ...