Busy Second Life

Slide 1: I'm Busy Enough... What Do I Need a Second Life For? Alan Levine New Media Consortium

Slide 2: Sans handout http://sl.nmc.org/wiki/Busy_Second_Life eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008

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Slide 7: http://vworld.fas.org/ eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008

Slide 8: http://metaversed.com/25-apr-2007/gartner-2011-80-internet-users-will-have-second-life eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008

Slide 9: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/10/21/more-us-warcraft-pla.html eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008

Slide 10: Levine’s Law Start with the #@+^ demo!

Slide 11: Jacob Hall, NMC Campus in Second Life eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008

Slide 12: http://valleywag.com/373678/are-second-life-users-on-drugs eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008

Slide 13: Add “get a first life” image http://www.getafirstlife.com/ eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008

Slide 14: FoDS eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008

Slide 15: Field of Dreams Syndrome eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008

Slide 16: Congress? http://tinyurl.com/2j95hb eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008

Slide 17: "Actually, maybe Congress should get an online life. In Second Life, participants create fake personas and spend endless hours interacting in a fantasy world with few tangible results to show for it -- kind of like, well, Congress." eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/01/AR2008040102372.html

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Slide 19: Those People & Time QuickTimeﾪ and a H.264 decompressor are needed to see this picture. Henry Jenkins, SXSW 2008 eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008

Slide 20: The Skeptics eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008

Slide 21: The Gamer There’s The Graphics SUCK! to do. nothing eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008

Slide 22: The Fearful Too weird! I got chased by a giant penis eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008

Slide 23: The Boss How do I make money? eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008

Slide 24: The Traditionalist I can do that in a discussion board eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008

Slide 25: http://www.nmc.org/ eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008

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Slide 27: NMC Campus Launches Jan 2006 QuickTimeﾪ and a H.264 decompressor are needed to see this picture. http://sl.nmc.org/2006/06/12/seriously-engaging-movie/ eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008

Slide 28: http://sl.nmc.org/2006/07/04/third-time-charm/ eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008

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Slide 30: http://virtualworlds.nmc.org/ eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008

Slide 31: Social Spaces eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008

Slide 32: Visceral Behind every avatar is a real person

Slide 33: Let’s Go in… eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008 NMC Create SL Account http://sl.nmc.org/join

Slide 34: Although I'm Busy... What Might I do with a Second Life? http://sl.nmc.org/