Laura Solomon / Lebachai Vesta Library Services Manager Ohio Public Library Information Network(OPLIN) [email_address] http://www.librarygeekwoes.com Getting a Second Life: An Introduction to the Metaverse for Libraries PART I

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Part I What is Second Life? What does it take to run? The AVL Project **BREAK**

What is Second Life?

What does it take to run?

The AVL Project

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Part II Things to think about Good and bad reasons to go inworld **BREAK**

Things to think about

Good and bad reasons to go inworld

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Part III SL etiquette lesson Hands-on portion of the class Back to RL

SL etiquette lesson

Hands-on portion of the class

Back to RL

What is Second Life ? A 3D online digital world imagined, created and owned by its residents

Virtual world, real dollars

What Second Life isn’t game

What can you do in Second Life?

http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v =b72CvvMuD6Q

Webkinz it’s not

Any big names in Second Life? Toyota Sun Microsystems CNN Reuters CNET NPR Adidas Reebok H&R Block Wired NASA Kraft Dell SirsiDynix Countless colleges & universities Many, many more…

Toyota

Sun Microsystems

CNN

Reuters

CNET

NPR

Adidas

Reebok

H&R Block

Wired

NASA

Kraft

Dell

SirsiDynix

Countless colleges & universities

Many, many more…

Anyone we know? Political candidates Big musical names Cleveland’s {red} an orchestra

Political candidates

Big musical names

Cleveland’s {red} an orchestra

Ann Meyers Medical Center

First Unitarian Church of SL

Temple Beit Israel

American Library Association

Ohio University

Case Western Reserve Library

Appearances can be deceiving

Time for a video! Educational Uses of Second Life

Educational Uses of Second Life

SimTeach wiki http:// simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title = Institutions_and_Organizations_in_SL#LIBRARIES

http:// simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title = Institutions_and_Organizations_in_SL#LIBRARIES

http://jvwresearch.org/

What does it take to run? Broadband connections 800MHz Pentium III or Athlon, or better processor 512M memory (1G recommended) Video/graphics card: nVidia GeForce 2, GeForce 4mx, or better OR ATI Radeon 8500, 9250, or better

Broadband connections

800MHz Pentium III or Athlon, or better processor

512M memory (1G recommended)

Video/graphics card:

nVidia GeForce 2, GeForce 4mx, or better

OR

ATI Radeon 8500, 9250, or better

Notes SL is like many pieces of software; not designed for public computing environments Constant (mandatory!) updates

SL is like many pieces of software; not designed for public computing environments

Constant (mandatory!) updates