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    1. Get a (Second) Life: Using Second Life to Enhance Academic Content Beth Ritter-Guth Lehigh Carbon Community College
    2. What is Second Life?
      • Second Life (SL) is a Multi-User Virtual Environment
      • SL is not a game
      • Residents (Total) 8,511,329
      • Active Residents (30 Day Activity) 1,688,125
      • US dollars spent on August 2: $1,213,819
    3. Academic Community
      • 250+ Colleges and Universities
        • Harvard
        • Oxford
        • Princeton
        • Stanford
        • Penn State
        • Indiana University of PA
        • Drexel University
        • Lehigh Carbon Community College
    4. RL Businesses in SL
      • IBM
      • Nissan
      • Xerox
      • Caldwell Banker
      • Sun Microsystems
      • The V3 Group
    5. Why Second Life?
      • Preparing for the Global Workforce
        • Cost effective meetings
        • Cost effective trainings
        • Collaborative communities
        • Shared resources
        • Marketing
        • Joint research/dissemination
    6. Risks
      • Adult content
      • Real people = real situations
      • Griefing
      • Grid crashes/lag
    7. Shaping a Virtual Environment
      • People will pick good content
      • Prepare students for “international travel”
      • Teach students anti-griefing tools
      • Accept lag/know the physics
    8. Literature Alive! In Second Life
      • Open Educational Resources (OER/CC)
      • Immersive literature
      • Camelot
      • Beowulf
      • Virtual Canterbury Tales
      • Edgar Allan Poe’s House of Usher
      • Kate Chopin Classroom
    9. The Lady of Shallot
      • Alfred, Lord Tennyson
      • OBJECT (Prim)
      • SCRIPTED
        • Alice Script
        • Notecards
    10. Camelot
    11. Dante’s Inferno
    12. Added Value
      • Literature
      • Composition
      • Chemistry
      • Physics
      • Math
      • Biology & Genetics
      • Computer Science
      • Professional Development
    13. Questions? [email_address]

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