Pay to Play: Funding Virtual World Education Desideria Stockton CEO Literature Alive! In Second Life [email_address]

Step 1: Imagine the End Do you need land? Do you need money for textures? Do you need money for builders? Do you need to purchase objects/scripts? Do you need to pay staff? Do you need release time?

Do you need land?

Do you need money for textures?

Do you need money for builders?

Do you need to purchase objects/scripts?

Do you need to pay staff?

Do you need release time?

Step 2: In-Kind Donations, Land Do you know anyone who will donate land? Colleges, Businesses, Friends Long Term, Short Term What rights do you have on the land? Can you build/script on the land? Can you ban griefers? Can you set media? What are the terms of the donation? Faculty development exchanges, marketing Can you donate tier?

Do you know anyone who will donate land?

Colleges, Businesses, Friends

Long Term, Short Term

What rights do you have on the land?

Can you build/script on the land?

Can you ban griefers?

Can you set media?

What are the terms of the donation?

Faculty development exchanges, marketing

Can you donate tier?

Literature Alive! Example Donor: Finger Lakes Community College Marcius Dowding, Crash Tibault Semester-to-Semester Lending Rights: Full Rights to Land, Deeded to LA! Terms: Tours, Advertising, Public Thanks, Copies Projects: Progressive Era Classroom, Contemporary Fiction Classroom, Spoon River Anthology, Walden

Donor: Finger Lakes Community College

Marcius Dowding, Crash Tibault

Semester-to-Semester Lending

Rights:

Full Rights to Land, Deeded to LA!

Terms:

Tours, Advertising, Public Thanks, Copies

Projects:

Progressive Era Classroom, Contemporary Fiction Classroom, Spoon River Anthology, Walden

Step 2: In-Kind Donations, Tools Designers (Literature Alive!) Eloise Pasteur Hiro Sheridan, Max Chatnoir Dudeny Ge Open Sledware Project (onRez) Freebies ICT Library ISTE NMC The School Store

Designers (Literature Alive!)

Eloise Pasteur

Hiro Sheridan, Max Chatnoir

Dudeny Ge

Open Sledware Project (onRez)

Freebies

ICT Library

ISTE

NMC

The School Store

Step 2: In-Kind Donations, Staff Volunteers New Designers/Scripters/Builders Sneblen Dagger, Parrot Ferrer Former Students Daliah Carter, Neveah Blessed Collaborators Other Educators Former and Current Students ISTE, NMC, Edu Coop

Volunteers

New Designers/Scripters/Builders

Sneblen Dagger, Parrot Ferrer

Former Students

Daliah Carter, Neveah Blessed

Collaborators

Other Educators

Former and Current Students

ISTE, NMC, Edu Coop

Step 3: Finding Cold Hard Cash Linden Grants (small) The Foundation for Rich Content Contact: Persephone Phoenix The V3 Group Contact: Liam Kanno Real World Grants National Science Foundation American Chemical Society MacArthur Foundation National Institute of Health

Linden Grants (small)

The Foundation for Rich Content

Contact: Persephone Phoenix

The V3 Group

Contact: Liam Kanno

Real World Grants

National Science Foundation

American Chemical Society

MacArthur Foundation

National Institute of Health

Step 3: Preparing for Rejection National Endowment for the Humanities Consider the Reviewers SL is not “innovative” Consider the Politics Media and SL Community Colleges V 4 Year Schools Ivy League/Big 10 V Others Consider the Deliverables Funding for all? Funding for some? Apply, Apply, Apply (make some noise!)

National Endowment for the Humanities

Consider the Reviewers

SL is not “innovative”

Consider the Politics

Media and SL

Community Colleges V 4 Year Schools

Ivy League/Big 10 V Others

Consider the Deliverables

Funding for all? Funding for some?

Apply, Apply, Apply (make some noise!)