Getting Started in
Second Life
Meghan Deana
Global Kids

WHAT IS GLOBAL KIDS?
Global Kids' mission is to transform urban youth
into successful students and global and
community leaders by engaging them in socially
dynamic, content-rich learning experiences.

WHAT IS THE ONLINE
LEADERSHIP PROGRAM?
Works with young people:
Digital Media Initiative
Playing 4 Keeps
Virtual Video Project
Virtual Worlds - Second Life
Mixed Reality Events
Blog: http://Holymeatballs.org

Global Kids in
Teen Second Life
2006 - GK joins TSL
Since then, programs have included:
Machinima
Global Kids Interns
Science in Second Life
D.I.D.I. Initiative

Enough about me...
Who are YOU?

Why Virtual Worlds?
A growing body of scholarship suggests
potential benefits of these forms of
participatory culture, including opportunities
for peer-to-peer learning, a changed
attitude toward intellectual property, the
diversification of cultural expression, the
development of skills valued in the modern
workplace, and a more empowered conception
of citizenship. - Henry Jenkins

What the media says:
ABC News video here...

Youth are excited and
engaged!

Are you ready?
Second Life Toolbox - on RezEd.org
Don’t go it alone! Build and join communities
Existing Second Life groups
SLED mailing list
RezEd.org

Best Practices for working
in Teen Second Life
What happens in the teen
grid stays in the teen grid.
Create multiple places of
meaning.

More Best Practices
Best practices for bringing a youth
development model into Teen Second Life
Best practices using Second Life for real
world education
Best practices for bringing content into
Second Life
and more all the time on RezEd.org

WARNING!!

Working in Second Life
can be...

Firewall issues...

Computer blues...

When it comes together...

Second Life Toolbox
on RezEd.org
Thank you!
Time for Q&A!