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http://www.educatorscoop.org/index.php?module=documents&JAS_DocumentManager_op=categories&category=2
SaLamander Project http://www.eduisland.net/salamanderwiki/index.php?title=Literature_review(more generally on gaming and distance education)
Planning to teach in Second Life
When it comes to policies, how many policies can mirror what your institution already has in place for appropriate computer use, email use, copyright, other aspects of distance learning, etc.? What adaptations need to be made to existing policies so they will apply to the Second Life environmnet?
]]> Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:32:35 +0000 mod http://ilene.pbwiki.com/FrontPage email.hidden@example.com (Ilene Frank) Ilene Frank edited FrontPage Search for “Second Life”; “Second Life” education
Places to get stuff!
Fabulously Free (all sorts of places to get free things on SL - not necessarily for education) http://fabfree.wordpress.com/
Where to get a good smile - for free!:http://slurl.com/secondlife/DollyRock/128/128/0 or search dollyrock
Suggestions on where to shop for "professional clothes": Search that phrase in the SLED discussion list archives.
]]> Mon, 03 Dec 2007 07:32:17 +0000 mod http://ilene.pbwiki.com/FrontPage email.hidden@example.com (Ilene Frank) Ilene Frank edited FrontPage Digital story-telling class from Case Western Reserve. Students created works that were exhibited to the wider educational community over a few days.
November 29 posting on SLED Student Digital Story Exhibition on Second Life)
Jen Doolittle (SL name): Transcriptabouther course "The Human Animal" for art students. (Scroll down for the transcript)
https://lists.secondlife.com/pipermail/educators/2006-April/000672.html
Finding a place to teach in Second Life
-Where will the activities take place? Do you need a specific place to meet your class for each session or is this unnecessary? If you need to purchase land in Second Life, which administrators will you need to convince?
]]> Sat, 01 Dec 2007 10:36:35 +0000 mod http://ilene.pbwiki.com/FrontPage email.hidden@example.com (Ilene Frank) Ilene Frank edited FrontPage -Think about assessment on more than one level:You will need arubric for activities forthe students. Think about assessment of the course: What questions will youwant to ask about the course in relation to Second Life? Will you compare grades in your section with grades in sections that do not use Second Life? Will you ask about student satisfaction?
Some ideas extracted from those already teaching in Second Life:
Ensure that the students have access to appropriate computer equipment. This is crucial!
Are there any students with disabilities who would need access to the same kind of help that they might get in any other lab situation or in a face-to-face classroom situation?
If a lab will be used for training, make sure that Second Life will run on the computers in question. Be prepared to solve problems presented by firewalls, etc. Software may need updating over the course of a semester. (The software for Second Life can be run off a flash drive – but if the computers used don’t have an]]> Sat, 01 Dec 2007 10:32:43 +0000 mod http://ilene.pbwiki.com/FrontPage email.hidden@example.com (Ilene Frank) Ilene Frank edited FrontPage Published Research Papers
http://www.educatorscoop.org/index.php?module=documents&JAS_DocumentManager_op=categories&category=1
and SyllabiSyllabi
http://www.educatorscoop.org/index.php?module=documents&JAS_DocumentManager_op=categories&category=2
Planning to teach in Second Life
When it comes to policies, how many policies can mirror what your institution already has in place for appropriate computer use, email use, copyright, other aspects of distance learning, etc.? What adaptations need to be made to existing policies so they will apply to the Second Life environmnet?
-Does your administration have concerns about students visiting areas in Second Life outside of your classroom space? Do you have concerns?
students?
-Can Can the institution policies mirror codes of conduct already in place for your]]> Sat, 01 Dec 2007 09:54:22 +0000 mod http://ilene.pbwiki.com/FrontPage email.hidden@example.com (Ilene Frank) Ilene Frank edited FrontPage Play these Second Life movies on any inworld screen.
http://slguide.com
SLBoutique: SLBoutique to become ShopShop OnRez July 23, 2007
http://slboutique.com (Formerly SLBoutique)
http://shop.onrez.com/
Professor and Teacher Make-over Kit (Free); Presentation Boards (Free) ; A muddy boot (Free): Students can put in notecards about the "muddiest point" about a class session.
SL Exchange http://www.slexchange.com
Examples of transcripts and other means to archive information from Second Life:
Teachers Buzz Session. New Media Consortium
http://sl.nmc.org/wiki/Teachers_Buzz_Session
Archives include transcripts of sessions, Flickr photos, etc.
TIPS
-Some users are putting Second Life on a flash drive and running it from there. Users must still keep up with current downloads. However using this strategy might save comput]]> Sat, 01 Dec 2007 09:41:17 +0000 mod http://ilene.pbwiki.com/FrontPage email.hidden@example.com (Ilene Frank) Ilene Frank edited FrontPage Drew Smith. Smith from the Tampa Library, University of South Florida.
Why teach in Second Life?
A April 24, 2007 press release from Gartner suggests that 80% of Internet users will be on some sort of virtual world in the next few years. "Internet users (and Fortune 500 enterprises) will have a "second life", but not necessarily in Second Life, according to Gartner, Inc….”
(http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=503861).
Worlds of Warcraft has over 9 million users as of May 2007. Games capture users attention and keep them engaged. Can we provide the same sort of environment]]> Sat, 01 Dec 2007 09:35:29 +0000 mod http://ilene.pbwiki.com/FrontPage no.email.given@example.com (Anonymous) Anonymous edited FrontPage Freitas, Sara de. (2006) "Learning in Immersive Worlds: A Review of Game BasedLearning." Prepared for the JISC e-learning program.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/elearning_innovation/gaming%20report_v3.3.pdf
Stoerger, Sharon (2007) It's Not Whether You Win or Lose, but How You Play the Game: The Role of Virtual Worlds in Education.
Annotated Bibliography
http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~sstoerge/virtualworlds.htm
Additional documents:
Livingstone, Daniel, (Ed.); Kemp, Jeremy, (Ed.) (2006).
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General Information/Getting Started
Tutorials on using Second Lifeon YouTube: http://www.youtube.comSearch "Second Life" tutorial
Beth Ritter-Guth (Desideria Stockton on Second Life) is working on anOpenSLedware wiki.
This should develop into an excellent site to fnd out more about the nuts and bolts of teaching in SL.
]]> Thu, 09 Aug 2007 07:33:13 +0000 mod http://ilene.pbwiki.com/FrontPage no.email.given@example.com (Anonymous) Anonymous edited FrontPage Penn State Virtual Worlds. SLEtiquette at Penn State
http://ets.tlt.psu.edu/virtualworlds/node/203
IBM Guidelines for Virtual Worlds
http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_projects.nsf/pages/virtualworlds.IBMVirtualWorldGuidelines.html
Examples of syllabi for courses taught in Second Life
Ed Lamoureux. Bradley University. Field Research Methods on Second Life
]]> Sat, 28 Jul 2007 14:20:50 +0000 mod http://ilene.pbwiki.com/FrontPage no.email.given@example.com (Anonymous) Anonymous edited FrontPage Getting Started in Second Life. NMC. (New Media Consortium)http://www.nmc.org/campuswiki/index.php/Getting_StartedWelcome!
This is an attemptto develop a list of things to consider aboutusing Second Life for educational purposes. The resources/links, etc. come from all the wonderful, creative educators on SLED (Second Life Educators Discussion list), blogs, librarians on the Alliance Library Google Group, etc. Helpus organize this! Send suggestions to ilene.frank at gmail . Other authors of this wiki include Joe Floyd and Drew Smith.
Why teach in Second Life?
]]> Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:53:03 +0000 mod http://ilene.pbwiki.com/FrontPage no.email.given@example.com (Anonymous) Anonymous edited FrontPage Welcome!Getting Started in Second Life. NMC. (New Media Consortium)http://www.nmc.org/campuswiki/index.php/Getting_StartedWelcome!
This is an attemptto develop a list of things to consider aboutusing Second Life for educational purposes. The resources/links, etc. come from all the wonderful, creative educators on SLED (Second Life Educators Discussion list), blogs, librarians on the Alliance Library Google Group, etc. Helpus organize this! Send suggestions to ilene.frank at gmail . Other authors of this wiki include Joe Floyd and Drew Smith.
Why teach in Second Life?
Nicely organized list of resources about Second Life - mostly "how to's"
http://pacificrimx.wordpress.com/learning/
General information about Second Life Information/Getting Started
Beth Ritter-Guth (Desideria Stockton on Second Life) is working ]]> Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:49:00 +0000 mod http://ilene.pbwiki.com/FrontPage no.email.given@example.com (Anonymous) Anonymous edited FrontPage Second Life Boutique http://slboutique.comNote: As ofJuly 23, SLBoutique becomesShop OnRez
SLXchange.com (Second Life Exchange) http://www.slexchange.com
Other resources:
InfoIsland.org (Second Life library activities) http:// infoisland.org
Second L!fe L!brary: The SL Library 2.0 Website (includes calendar of events)
http://infoisland.org/drupal/
Second Life: Education http://secondlife.com/education/
SLED (Educators discussion list) https://lists.secondlife.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/educators
Simteach wiki – Second Life: http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
101 Uses for Second Life in the College Classroom (Dr. Megan Conklin) http://facstaff.elon.edu/mconklin/pubs/glshandout.pdf
Getting Started in Second Life. NMC. (New Media Consortium) http://www.nmc.org/campuswiki/index.php/Getting_Started
Unofficial Complete Fools Guide to Second Life: http://www.sldrama.com/index.php?page=2
Introducing Your RL Students to SL: http://www.cxknowledge.com/Int]]> Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:50:18 +0000 mod http://ilene.pbwiki.com/FrontPage no.email.given@example.com (Anonymous) Anonymous edited FrontPage Volume 3: Virtual Worlds: http://bellevuecollege.edu/informatics/VWTAFinal.pdf
An excellent introduction and overview education and Second Life from Spring 2007.
Educators Coop
Published Research Papers
http://www.educatorscoop.org/index.php?module=documents&JAS_DocumentManager_op=categories&category=1
and Syllabi
http://www.educatorscoop.org/index.php?module=documents&JAS_DocumentManager_op=categories&category=2
Planning to teach in Second Life
When it comes to policies, how many policies can mirror what your institution already has in place for appropriate computer use, email use, copyright, other aspects of distance learning, etc.? What adaptations need to be made to existing policies so they will apply to the Second Life environmnet?
]]> Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:51:22 +0000 mod http://ilene.pbwiki.com/FrontPage no.email.given@example.com (Anonymous) Anonymous edited FrontPage http://virtualworlds.nmc.org/2007/04/01/leases/
"Edunation I has land parcels available for rent, not many left. They can be used for both personal and educational use & he's only renting to educators. No clubs or anything like that allowed.. and each one allows 500 prims. Landlord very nice to deal with. Can rent month to month or more, up to 1 year. Could be good for anyone who doesn't already have an institutional presence and wants to set something up." Group Notice sent to Angel Learning Group. July 16, 2007.
Educators Coop
Leasing parcels for $80 for a year for residental use by educators with some restrictions. For examplethey include a fairly elaboratepolicy on land use
Examples of tools available to educators in Second Life:
ICT Library:
]]> Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:48:47 +0000 mod http://ilene.pbwiki.com/FrontPage no.email.given@example.com (Anonymous) Anonymous edited FrontPage Play these Second Life movies on any inworld screen.
http://slguide.com
SLBoutique:SLBoutique: SLBoutique to become Shop OnRez July 23, 2007
http://slboutique.com
Professor and Teacher Make-over Kit (Free); Presentation Boards (Free) ; A muddy boot (Free): Students can put in notecards about the "muddiest point" about a class session.
Suggestions for where to get a good smile - for free!:http://slurl.com/secondlife/DollyRock/128/128/0 or search dollyrock
Suggestions on where to shop for "professional clothes": Search that phrase in the SLED discussion list archives.
Boutique http://slboutique.com http://slboutique.comNote: As ofJuly 23, SLBoutique becomesShop OnRez
SLXchange.com (Second Life Exchange) http://www.slexchange.com
Have a Question about Education and Secon]]> Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:00:12 +0000 mod http://ilene.pbwiki.com/FrontPage no.email.given@example.com (Anonymous) Anonymous edited FrontPage -Can the institution make rules about where students can go and what they can do? Can student accounts on Second Life be restricted in the same way that campus email and other tech uses might be restricted?
-What will you do about warning students about Second Life's odder situations? Some things might offend some students.
a special topics "special topics" class or special section of a class in an environment like Second Life that may prove a hardship for students with certain kinds of disabilities?Are there provisions you can make for students with disabilities?
-Intellectual property: Who owns the work of the students created in Second Life? What do students need to know about copyright, etc. to function in the Second Life environment?
Lab terms Terms of service, Service or conditions set by you and/or your institut]]> Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:54:42 +0000 mod http://ilene.pbwiki.com/FrontPage no.email.given@example.com (Anonymous) Anonymous edited FrontPage New Media Consortium. Campus Code of Conduct.
http://sl.nmc.org/wiki/Campus_Code
Penn State Virtual Worlds. SLEtiquette at Penn State
http://ets.tlt.psu.edu/virtualworlds/node/203
Examples of syllabi for courses taught in Second Life
Ed Lamoureux. Bradley University. Field Research Methods on Second Life
TIPS
-Some users are putting Second Life on a flash drive and running it from there. Users must still keep up with current downloads. However using this strategy might save computer lab administrators some responsibility and make you as a faculty member more self-sufficient.
15:35.
http://ets.tlt.psu.edu/virtualworlds/node?page=9 http://ets.tlt.psu.edu/virtualworlds/node?page=9
-When it comes toscheduling sessions in Second Life, Wednesday is a good day to skip! That’s the usual day for regular maintenance.
Second Life: General Information
]]> Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:48:09 +0000 mod http://ilene.pbwiki.com/FrontPage no.email.given@example.com (Anonymous) Anonymous edited FrontPage Proceedings of the Second Life Education Workshop, Part of the Second Life Community Convention (1st, San Francisco, California, August 18-20, 2006). "...14 papers from presentations and posters from the Second Life Education Workshop at the Second Life Community Convention, presented at the Fort Mason Centre in San Francisco, California in August 2006." ERIC document: ED493670.
http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/1b/ef/03.pdf
Life Science Informatics Trends Analysis for Community College Program Builders -
Volume 3: Virtual Worlds: http://bellevuecollege.edu/informatics/VWTAFinal.pdf
An excellent introduction and overview education and Second Life from Spring 2007.
Planning to teach in Second Life
copyright, etc.? other aspects of distance learning, etc.? What adaptations need to be made]]> Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:46:14 +0000 mod