Second Life: Education in a Virtual World (slidecast)

Second Life: Education in a Virtual World Bernadette Daly Swanson Danielle Kane University of California Davis University of California Santa Cruz Academic Library 2.0 Library Association University of California Berkeley November 2, 2007

Mica & HVX: Taking on a Second Life Video http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v =faeXGPB5coA

Rise of Gaming
MMORPG
Massively-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game
MMO
Massively Multiplayer Online game
MUVE
Online, Multi-User Virtual Environments, sometimes called virtual worlds
http://www.opencroquet.org/index.php/Main_Page http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/index.xml http://secondlife.com/ http://www.activeworlds.com/

What is Second Life
Chat / IM / Voice
Import / Export
Video / Snapshots
3-D graphics
Rich Build Tools
Streaming Audio
Creativity
Collaboration
Ownership
Community
Expressive
Lag
Distracting
Griefing / Harassment
No Preconceived Objective
Experiment
Economy
Slang
Social Environment
User Generated / Owned Content
Social Networking

Why should educators and librarians pay attention to virtual worlds?
Question from http://seanfitz.wikispaces.com/virtualworldsenetworks07 Academy of Second Learning: ASL Eson 32, 162, 351

New Media Consortium (NMC)
An international not-for-profit consortium of nearly 250 learning-focused organizations dedicated to the exploration and use of new media and new technologies.
Serves as a catalyst for the development of new applications of technology to support learning and creative expression.
Sponsors programs and activities designed to stimulate innovation, encourage collaboration, and recognize excellence among its member institutions.

Virtual World Education
2007 Horizon Report:
http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2007_Horizon_Report.pdf
Time-to-adoption: 2 to 3 years
Why: Offers effective learning spaces
Second Life Offers:
Shared experiences
A feeling of presence
Visual component
Visual and social cues
Closer to face-to-face conversation
Real-time collaboration
Immersion
Engagement
NOAA: Science on a Sphere NOAA Virtual Island in SciLands Meteora 175, 155, 26

NMC: The Horizon Project
How well do lessons learned in a virtual world translate into real-world applications?
Do immersive learning experiences engage learners? In what ways?
Why are virtual worlds so compelling to some and not to others? What are the essential factors that make one person willing to spend hours exploring these spaces and others much less so?
Book Island 128, 128, 35 The Horizon Project Call to Scholarship. The New Media Consortium 2007. http://www.nmc.org/pdf/Horizon-Project-Call-to-Scholarship.pdf

New Media Consortium White Paper Social Networking, the "Third Place," and the Evolution of Communication
White Paper just released in a variety of formats
Part of NMC's New Scholarship Initiative
Paper released in advance of conference to spark discussion,
discourse, and critical thinking on the topic
NMC Symposium on the Evolution of Communication: Dec. 4-5, 2007
www.nmc.org/pdf/Evolution-of-Communication.pdf
New Media Consortium

NMC Survey of Educators in Second Life
33% were 36-45 years of age
52% are female
58% have experienced other virtual environments
but 73% have not participated in any massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games.
What is your prediction for the future of Second Life?
26% achieve some great applications but will not go mainstream
24% future of the web
12% offers great potential but won’t be around in five years.
2% mostly hype and will implode any day now
36% had other comments both positive and negative

So, what are librarians & educators doing in Second Life…

Participants UCLA Library San Diego State University UCI Anteater Island UCB ALA California State University – Pomona Nature Publishing Group Stanford Indiana University SDSU MIT UCI Columbia University The Bay School of San Francisco UCSB Chapman University Drexel University IEEE Harvard University UCLA New York University The Art Institute of California-San Diego Pennsylvania State University New Media Consortium UCD Ball State University Pepperdine University UCSC University of Colorado

University of California Libraries
UC Irvine
Anteater Island - experimental distance learning initiative
UC Los Angeles
Exhibit's extensive digital collections
Provide Web links to an array of its existing services
Esther Grassian taught a graduate course in Information Studies
UC Davis
Librarian supervision of Service Learning Projects with SJSU MLIS Program LIB 246 (hybrid course in Second Life & Real Life)
UC Santa Cruz
Currently in the planning phase of a Second Life project

UCLA Libraries

SLED Second Life Educators Second Life Education Workshop Aug. 2007
“ In the year since the first SLCC Education Workshop, we’ve witnessed the growth of an international community, the evolution of an extensive Second Life ecosystem that includes blogs, wikis, mashups, and the development of model projects and practices that are shaping new policies for the integration of Web 2.0 and the 3D Web in education.”

Second Life Educators (SLED) listserv has close to 3900 members
161 colleges and universities active in Second Life
The Second Life K12 community—SLEDT—has 475 members
Claudia L'Amoreaux / Claudia Linden & John Lester / Pathfinder Linden
Linden Lab, August 2007
http://metaversedl.org/slcc07.htm
http://www.simteach.com/wiki/
SLED mailing list:
https://lists.secondlife.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/educators

Games for the Web
Field Research in Second Life
CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opinion
Virtual World Librarianship in Second Life
Social presence
eCommerce
eBusiness
Machinima
Organic chemistry
Health
Computer Science
Scripted Robots
Historical Re-creations
Multimedia and Games Design
Virtual Tourism
Social Science
Anthropology
Real Estate
Product Design
Architecture Design
Urban Planning
What are they Teaching Globe Theater: Renaissance Island 189, 44, 26

University of California Faculty
UC Berkeley
CITRIS: Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society
Archaeologist Ruth Tringham is having undergraduate students work as research apprentices
UC Santa Barbara
ReCVEB: Research Center for Virtual Environments and Behavior
Transcriptions Project: Rita Raley and Alan Liu, created its own experimental classroom space.
UC Los Angeles
Dario Nardi and Francis Stean in Human Complex Systems. Dario is using it in an undergraduate courses
UC Davis
The Virtual Hallucinations project is a continuation of the work of Dr. Peter Yellowlees and group
Dr. Peter Yellowlees Bioterrorism Research Project
UC Riverside
eLab City, Sloan Center for Internet Retailing (working laboratory environment for studying virtual consumption.
UC Irvine
The Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences

UC Irvine Anteater Island Experimental distance learning initiative The primary purpose of the island will be to support UCI courses wishing to use it as a platform for computer design projects and to use it as an innovative learning environment.

Peter Yellowlees, MD (UC Davis) Bioterrorism Research Project: disaster recovery - work flow - training
Two private islands in Second Life
collaborating with the Department of Health on a Bioterrorism research project for disaster recovery purposes.
uses a 3D version of a field station (based on a local building) where patients would receive inoculations and health assistance after being exposed to a bio-terrorism outbreak.
medical students are currently using the facility
Planning, work flow and training

What is your prediction for the future of virtual worlds in education?
The Botanical Gardens 193, 59, 38

A few of the International Conferences moderated & streamed live into Second Life with participation from Second Life attendees
Educause/ELI (Atlanta) & Educause 2007 (Seattle)
MiT5 (MIT: Media in Transition), Boston
UNESCO eLearning Conference, Barcelona
CILIP, UK : Umbrella 2007 (discussion panels in Second Life)
Second Life Community Conference 2007 (SLCC), Chicago
Held Entirely in Second Life:
Second Life Best Practices in Education 2007 – 1300 attendees with workshops/presentations over a 24 hours, held on several sims
Beyond Broadcast 2007
New Media Consortium (NMC), Symposium on Creativity
Dr. Dobb’s LIFE 2.0
New Media Consortium

What sort of experience do you or your library have with Second Life or other virtual worlds?
ALA Arts InfoIsland 41, 173, 22

Second Life World Map: view of Info Archipelago Library Islands, Caledon Victoria City & Partner Islands

Statistics Second Life Library / Info Archipelago & Caledon
Libraries with a Second Life Presence in the Info Archipelago: 50+ libraries
Volunteers (with & without institutional presence): 700+ librarians
Google Group: Alliancesecondlife list: 600+
“ By 2011 , 80 percent of Internet users will be in virtual worlds”.
Raskino, Mark, et.al. The IT Revolution Needs You: The Gartner Symposium Emerging Trends Keynote. Gartner Research Group: Barcelona. 2007. Peters, Tom. A Report on the First Year of Operation of the Alliance Second Life Library 2.0 Project also known as the Alliance Information Archipelago. 2007 http://www.alliancelibrarysystem.com/pdf/07sllreport.pdf

Volunteer Participation Map created using Google Maps http://maps.google.com/ 58 Respondents

Should we be thinking about training & developing skills for virtual worlds? New Media Consortium Orientation Island

Libraries & Virtual Worlds Lori Bell, Director of Innovation Alliance Library System "Gartner Research Group predicts 80 percent of Internet users will be in a virtual world by 2011. This is the next phase of the Internet and libraries need to be where users are. We are investigating and offering library services to people who might not otherwise come to the library and we have an international community of librarians and educators working together to provide high quality services." Lorelei Junot in Second Life

JJ Drinkwater Director of the Caledon Library JJ Drinkwater. Image used with permission 10/23/07 © All rights reserved. First, the institutions stated mission: put content out there, teach people, solidify the cultural matrix, whatever. Second, help grow the world. The reason I want to give away not just materials (books, reference collections, whatever) but tools, is to help make more of Second Life. Every time we give away an object, or a script, that someone can play with, can modify, and make into a better tool for their own research or study, or into a different tool altogether, we help seed knowledge and understanding into our world. We're at a point in our world's history where intellectual generosity counts many times more than it will later, when this (or some MUVE) is fully realized.” “ I firmly believe that a library in Second Life has a duty to hew as closely to the tenets of Open Source as it can. This world is just in its incunabular stage. The purpose of an institution like a library or a school here is twofold.

On Virtual Worlds… “ Every library doesn’t need to have a separate library in a virtual world like Second Life so it offers and ideal way to test collaborative service models. Working in 3-D and in real-time is a way to get a fresh perspective on traditional library services and on seeing how to present resources. Some librarians are extending normal services into SL, for example, a map/gis librarian has begun offering GIS consulting at regularly scheduled times on info island. I’m interested in bringing government information resources and services into second Life…the collaborative opportunities are a good fit for this kind of online resource.” Hyacinth Cortes “ I see Second Life as a cost-effective way to collaborate on ideas and projects. And once we've designed something in Second Life, it's easier to communicate our vision and make it a reality.” Lyra Weston

Collaborating Poster Session & Machinima (video) for ACRL 2007, Baltimore Three librarians from Illinois, North Carolina, California collaborated in Second Life to develop the posters and machinima (video) for ACRL poster session. For this presentation, Mica and I collaborated in Second Life and via email. We uploaded files to slideshare.net (we have never met in person)

What am I doing? Teen Second Life & Main Grid
Providing support and instruction on machinima at the Machinima Institute
Working with Kelly Czarnecki (PLCMC) & teens in the Teen Grid
Machinima Weekend: free software, online editing sites, teens & adults co-taught
Created multiple youtube/ jumpcut accounts for students to test services
On the main grid, working a weekly reference shift on International InfoIsland
Volunteered with Peggy Sheehy’s Suffern Middle School team to create a video on the Ramapo Islands for NECC 2007 (now has 800 students)
Instructor for the machinima portion of University of Illinois Urbana Champagne’s Virtual Worlds Librarianship program offered in SL
NASA has a Presence on Eye4YouAlliance Island & in Main Grid

Real Time 3D Video Instruction Stream QuickTime Video into Second Life Machinima Institute Moving from ALA Arts InfoIsland to Eduisland

What is Machinima ? Machine + cinema = Machinima
“ Machinima is filmmaking within a real-time, 3D virtual environment, often using 3D video-game technologies.”
Marino, Paul. 3D Game-Based Filmmaking: The Art of Machinima. Scottsdale: Paraglyph Press Inc. 2004, p.1.
In other words, it is capturing video in a video game or a game-like space such as a virtual world using the built-in recording features or third party software.

Why should we be interested in machinima production?
Useful, cool and fun
familiar to gamers of all ages (many games have built-in video capture)
popular media & has been around since the early mid-90s
to learn new skills & move into new environments
to engage youth & adults on group movie projects
to create content that can edited, shared & mashed up on popular video hosting sites and streamed into Second Life
to use in library programming, instruction, marketing and outreach

Machinima / New Media Books Kelland, Matt, Dave Morris, and Dave Lloyd. Machinima. Boston, MA: Thomson / Course Technology. 2005. Marino, Paul. 3D game-based filmmaking : the art of machinima. Scottsdale, Ariz: Paraglyph Press. 2004. Hancock, Hugh, Ingram, Johnnie. Machinima For Dummies. Indianapolis, IN: Wiley Publishing Inc. 2007 Henry Jenkins, Convergence Culture: Where old and new media collide. New York: New York University Press, 2006.

Library Related Projects Using Rich Visual backdrop of Second Life:
Community Service Projects for San Jose State University’s MLIS Program LIB 246 (hybrid course in Second Life & Real Life)
Creation of a bibliography on Machinima seeking sources in both Second Life and Real Life, to be published in Second Life & on the web.
Supporting video shared on YouTube (audio mixed on YouTube’s new TestTube service).

Visualizing Information Literacy: depicting the ACRL IL Standards using Second Life:
Melissa Browne (UC Davis), Yemila Sanches (SJSU) & Bernadette Daly Swanson (UC Davis)
Using animations and Second Life camera tool to create interesting imagery for marketing campaign to appeal to undergraduate audience at UC Davis - images, instructions & documentation uploaded to Flickr.com (available Nov. 2007)

Caledon Library
Branch of the Alexandrian Free Library
Serves the intellectual and cultural life of Caledon
Dedicated to immersive learning about the 19th century imagination
Sponsors events of interest to the residents:
celebrations, story sessions, lectures, etc
Increasing popularity
The library collects:
Primarily Victorian source material
Research materials concerning the world of the 19th century
Secondary materials for studying Caledon’s important genres.
http://thelibrarymilitant.net/blog/about-the-library-militant.html

What am I Doing?
Displays
Prinney: Cartoons satirizing the Prince of Wales (Group effort by several Caledon Librarians)
Notes of Love: excerpts from love letters of British Victorian poets, novelists, and playwrights (Feb 2008)
Google Custom Search Engines
Aetheric Search Gizmo http://google.com/coop/cse?cx=015330499799466611175%3Aaf0xg9rscyg
Planning on the creation of several others
Collections
Needlework & Airships
Harry Potter Celebration – 4 locations, included music, dancing, and trivia costume contest
Turing Weyland Image used with permission 10/23/07 © All rights reserved.

Possible Questions
How can we add value to our current services with
a presence in a virtual world?
Question from http://seanfitz.wikispaces.com/virtualworldsenetworks07

New Media: Cross Platform (TV, Web, Virtual World, etc.)

Web 2.0: Selected Mashups
SLoodle: moodle meets Second Life - open source
Daniel Livingstone &Jeremy Kemp: learning tools & structures for educators exploring 3D multi-user virtual environments
Connect Facebook Users to your SL Presence :
Second Life link beta (see if your friends are in SL)
Gridmarker.com:
store, share, view other people’s locations from the web
Life2Life: integrating Amazon’s remote shopping cart system in SL
Flickr in Second Life: bring your Flickr images into SL
Del.icio.us & Second Life
Slurl Maker & Second Life: bounce into SL from the web

Intellectual Property It’s all yours… it is built into the code “ Second Life has taken the Creative Commons license a step further… Creators in Second Life can mark their content with the license they want. If it is marked with a CC license, someone can take a picture of it without express permission. If it is not marked with a license, then if you try to take a picture of it, the object will be invisible.” “ If a right is violated, it gets remedied through the law.” Lessing, Lawrence. Code: Version 2.0. New York: Basic Books. 2006 CC Atribution-ShareAlike Machinima: Filmmakers are migrating to Second Life as it is one of few games or game-like spaces where machinima can be created and used/sold commercially. Few games offer this freedom.

Summary of Top Two Things
General
Unlimited bandwidth.
Seamless transition from SL to RL search & discovery
personal electronics that could "sense" the presence of a virtual visitor and convey this information to its owner so that the two may interact by VoIP or SMS
Real Life
Would like my AV to be able to work RL (real-time) reference.
Stream Second Life into Real Life
Dedicated computer for Second Life with a projector and large screen
Second Life
Monitor or marquee or video screen that could display RSS feeds.
Full web functionality INSIDE SL
Stream Real Life into Second Life
Seamless Digital content (ebooks, ejournals, etc.) available in SL on a text reader
Scan something directly into a file in SL and creating a searchable archive
New organizational scheme for information that can be retrieved in-world
spell check
A "walk through" manipulatable catalog/database interface
Historical or geographical sims that the library could move around in based on discussion topics
Unicode for anything textual
Seamless built-in translation/interpretation capabilities for anything textual or audible.
Receive text or the audio in the language you set

On Virtual Worlds…
“ In a library notably absent of huge ranges of books and rows of computers we can create new services or rethink what it means to be a library. What I have noticed is that the librarian becomes even more important and visible to the residents of SL, in RL librarians might be approached last when students are desperate. In SL if you have a librarian tag be prepared to be stopped at anytime.”
“ I can test out my ideas without the worry of making mistakes… brainstorm with librarians from around the world with an opportunity to rethink media and services in 3D and traditional environments. We need to be thinking of multi-platform strategies & participating alongside library users on group and open media projects." HVX Silverstar HVX Silverstar

What’s our point!
Explore collaborative service models
Use SL as a mode of networking by attending conferences and talks
SL projects don’t need to be large, start small
Think of added value, what can your library contribute in terms of unique resources
Explore Second Life:
What would you need to know to move to another MUVE
Envision instruction in 5+ years and a MUVE is more integrated in instruction, how would you support those students and faculty.
Get an account, create an avatar and explore the educational and library spaces

Land for Projects or Students? educators | librarians | researchers | non-profit
Campus: Second Life (Linden Labs)
Apply for free temporary space on Adult or Teen grids
Spring 2008 semester - space limited http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Campus:Second_Life
Private Islands or Mainland Plots (Linden Labs)
http://secondlife.com/community/land-islands.php
50% discount for verified real world educators and schools/academic institutions or 501(c)3 non-profit http://secondlifegrid.net/programs/education
3 New Islands, Suffern Middle School, Teen Second Life

Land for Projects or Students? educators | librarians | researchers | non-profit
Info Archipelago (Alliance Library System & Partners)
Move your own island to the Info Archipelago OR
Lease small or large parcels: $100-400 year (lots)
http://alliancelibraries.info/secondlife.htm http://groups.google.com/group/alliancesecondlife
NMC “Sparkling Innovative Learning & Creativity” http://sl.nmc.org/
New Media Consortium (NMC)
Leasing small or large parcels: $100-400 year (lots) - $5540 (sim)
http://www.nmc.org/pr/virtual-worlds-lease-available
http://virtualworlds.nmc.org/docs/NMC_announces_EDU_communities_in_SL.pdf
Info International and Info Island

Resources
Peters, Tom. A Report on the First Year of Operation of the Alliance Second Life Library 2.0 Project also known as the Alliance Information Archipelago. 2007
http://www.alliancelibrarysystem.com/pdf/07sllreport.pdf
The Horizon Project Call to Scholarship. The New Media Consortium 2007. http://www.nmc.org/pdf/Horizon-Project-Call-to-Scholarship.pdf
The Horizon Report 2007. The New Media Consortium 2007. http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2007_Horizon_Report.pdf
Simteach - http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Second_Life_Education_Wiki
Social Networking, the “Third Place,” and the Evolution of Communication. The New Media Consortium 2007. http://www.nmc.org/pdf/Evolution-of-Communication.pdf
Spring 2007 Survey Educators in Second Life. The New Media Consortium 2007.
http://www.nmc.org/news/nmc/sl-educator-survey
Raskino, Mark, et al. The IT Revolution Needs You: The Gartner Symposium
Emerging Trends Keynote. Gartner Research Group: Barcelona. 2007.

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