NTFS Symposium 2008 SecondLife

Slide 1: Second Life ® Jane Chandler (RL) / Lane Erde (SL) Jonathan Crellin (RL) / Jack Salyut (SL) Emma Duke-Williams (RL) / Emmadw Rickenbacker (SL) School of Computing & The ExPERT Centre University of Portsmouth http://secondlife.com

Slide 2: What is Second Life? • A virtual world • Rich, graphical, 3-D environment • Real people represented by avatars • Chat, IM and voice communication • Content is user created • Audio and video streaming • Links out to the web and the beginnings of running the web inside SL

Slide 3: How do I use it? • Create an account (which can be a free account or a premium account at around US$10 a month) • Check the pc hardware requirements • Check the firewall requirements • Download the client to your pc or a memory stick • Start using it

Slide 4: Photos from Linden Labs

Slide 6: Uses of SL • Business • Holding meetings • Social / Entertainment • Simulations • Education Reuters in Second Life http://www.secondlifevideo.com/item

Slide 7: How Widely do Universities and Colleges use Second Life? • SimTeach: Institutions and Organizations in SL lists 133 (May 2008) http://simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Institutions_and_Organizations_i • John Kirriemuir’s “Snapshots of Second Life use in UK HE and FE” http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/studies/slsnapshots 80 Campus or Staff Presence 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 Jul-07 Sep-07 Mar-08

Slide 8: Educational Uses of SL • Content Creation: art, software, • Simulations: places, events, buildings • Classes: lectures, tutorials, ‘treasure hunts’ • Libraries and Museums • Risky/expensive experiences: running a business, investigating other cultures • Other: meetings, socialising

Slide 9: Socialising • Nightclubs – DJs and musicians • Games eg Tringo • Bars • Plays • “Tourist attractions” • Interest groups

Slide 12: Photo from danceinthesky via Flickr

Slide 13: Photo from danceinthesky via Flickr Photo from Linden Labs

Slide 14: Photo from danceinthesky via Flickr Photo from Linden Labs

Slide 15: Ben and Jerry’s

Slide 16: Content Creation • Fashion • Buildings • Vehicles • Furniture • Scripts • Art works: photos, pictures, sculpture, installations, sound • IP rests with the creator in SL Photo from Linden Labs

Slide 17: The Java Shop in Godric's Hollow By grayceeshepherd

Slide 18: The Java Shop in Godric's Hollow By grayceeshepherd

Slide 19: The Java Shop in Godric's Hollow By grayceeshepherd Linden Gallery of Resident Art

Slide 20: Simulating Reality • Places e.g Morocco • Buildings e.g. Sistine Chapel • People e.g. schizophreniza • Events e.g tsunamis, Canterbury Tales • Training e.g. disaster response • Other e.g. solar system

Slide 24: Classes • Discussions • Lectures • Simulations • Exhibitions • Explorations

Slide 30: SL and the internet • Streaming video • Streaming music • Upload powerpoint slides • Link out to the web • Display RSS feeds in world • Display websites in world (but not yet interact with them)

Slide 31: Links to other platforms • Moodle has Sloodle http://www.sloodle.org/ • Blackboard is working with Ball State University • Facebook

Slide 32: Some Statistics 30,000,000 Hours in World US$ exchanged for L$ 25,000,000 Population (Feb'06 143k) 20,000,000 15,000,000 10,000,000 5,000,000 0 Feb '06 Jan '07 April '07 July '07 Oct '07 Jan '08

Slide 34: • Silversprite’s Slideshow of UK HE & FE in SL® http://www.flickr.com/photos/silversprite/sets/72157603982005324/show/ http://www.silversprite.com

Slide 35: Video Clips • Education in Second Life: Explore the Possibilities http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v =TMGR9q43dag&feature=related • Educational Uses of Second Life http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOFU9oUF2HA&feature=rel • Introduction to Second Life http://www.secondlifevideo.com/item/T3LKQP54MX4MRY8W • Watch the World(s) http://youtube.com/watch?v=LxVDVggLqsA • CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opinion http:// blogs.law.harvard.edu/cyberone/ • How to make a gift box... happy holidays! - SL TuTORial http://youtube.com/watch?v=876wwYv6Tf0

Slide 36: Books • Creating Your World: The Official Guide to Advanced Content Creation for Second Life by Aimee Weber, Kimberly RuferBach & Richard Platel (2007) John Wiley & Sons ISBN-13: 978-0470171141 • I, Avatar: The Culture and Consequences of Having a Second Life by Mark Stephen Meadows (2008) New Riders ISBN-13: 978-0321533395 • 101 Uses for Second Life in the College Classroom by Megan S. Conklin: http:// facstaff.elon.edu/mconklin/pubs/glshandout.pdf

Slide 37: Websites – Getting Going • http://secondlife.com/ • Joining SL: http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=ddpfmbxr_683gt5h2&hl=en • Joining via NMC: http://sl.nmc.org/join/ • Enterprise 3.D Living and Working in Virtual Worlds http://www.slideshare.net/rooreynolds/enterprise-3d-living-and-w

Slide 38: Education Websites • Edumuve.com: http://edumuve.com/tour/ • Eduserv Foundation: http:// www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/sl.aspx • RezEd: The Hub for Learning and Virtual Worlds http:// www.rezed.org/ • The SaLamander Project: http:// www.eduisland.net/salamanderwiki/index.php?title =Main_Page • SimTeach: Information and Community for Educators using M.U.V.E.'s: http://www.simteach.com/ • Second Life in Education: http://sleducation.wikispaces.com/educationaluses • NMC in Second Life ®http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9VZKTT6gZ8

Slide 39: Blogs • Wagner James Au’s New World Notes http://nwn.blogs.com/ • Metanomics http://metanomics.net/ • NMC Campus Observer http://sl.nmc.org/ • Second Life Research http://secondliferesearch.blogspot.com/ • Intellagirl’s Ubernoggin http://www.ubernoggin.com/ • SLED Blog http://www.sl-educationblog.org/ • NMC Campus Observer: http://sl.nmc.org/ • Second Life Business Brief http://slbrief.com/ • IBM’s Roo Reynold’s and Ian Hughes’s eightbar http:// eightbar.co.uk/

Slide 40: Mailing Lists • SLED – SL Educators https://lists.secondlife.com/cgi-bin/mailman/list • Slrl – Second Life Research http://list.academ-x.com/listinfo.cgi/slrl-academ