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    This is a shot of the UIS Second Life Island..this is my avatar, Vidorah Messmer. I envy her because she never has a bad hair day…

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    1. Second Life: A Collaboration UIS-CSU-IDPH Presented by Deb Antoine-Vidorah Messmer Veronica Halloway-No Morane Julian Scheinbuks-Jules Gigamon
    2. The Collaboration
    3. History of the Collaboration
      • Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) Developed online BASUAH training
        • Target Audience
      • UIS experiments with Second Life
      • Chicago State University
        • Encourage students in Biology of Sexually Transmitted Diseases for non-majors to become BASUAH Ambassadors
        • Experiment with teaching in Second Life
    4. University of Illinois at Springfield 4700 students 21 bachelor degrees 25 minors 20 master degrees 1 doctoral degree 14 fully online degree programs E-tuition 30% growth 91% retention in online programs
    5. Chicago State University
      • 7,000 students
      • 37 bachelor degrees
      • 22 graduate degrees
      • 1 doctoral degree
      • Largest Minority Population in Illinois
      • 80% African American
      • 0.6% Asian American or Pacific Islander
      • 6.7% Hispanic American
      • 0.1% Native American
      • 9.9% Caucasian
      • 70% women, 30% men
    6. Illinois Department of Public Health
      • BASUAH Initiative
        • Nationally, AIDS is the leading cause of death among African American women age 25-34 and the second leading cause of death of African American men age 35-44
        • Of the total reported HIV cases among females in Illinois, 70 percent were African-American.
        • Among the total male population with HIV in Illinois, 47 percent were African American.
    7. Illinois Department of Public Health
      • BASUAH Task
        • Reach our target audience – college age students 25 – 35
        • educate them about HIV/AIDS and the importance of testing
        • .convince them to become peer-educators (there peers are more likely to listen to them)
        • Offer them free training that they can take on their own time.
        • Offer them a venue to practice/use what they have learnt.
    8. Illinois Department of Public Health
      • BASUAH Solution
        • Opportunity to collaborate
        • UIS-OTEL had expertise in developing e-learning - familiar with state government
        • Offered a venue for Ambassadors to practice/use what they have learnt.
    9. Development of the BASUAH Education Center
      • In 2007 the University of Illinois Springfield’s Office of Technology-Enhanced Learning began developing the BASUAH Education Center with the IDPH.
    10. Benefits of the Collaboration
      • Engagement and Retention of BASUAH Ambassadors
          • State-wide networking
          • National networking
          • Global networking
      • Experiment with teaching and learning in Second Life
    11. Resources
      • Articles
      • Learning in the Zone: A social constructivist framework for distance education in a 3D virtual world
        • http://www.editlib.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Reader.ViewAbstract&paper_id=22045&from=NEWDL
      • Three-dimensional virtual worlds and distance learning: two case studies of Active Worlds as a medium for distance education
        • http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-8535.2005.00477.x
      • Design-based Research Strategies for Developing a Scientific Inquiry Curriculum in a Multi-User Virtual Environment
        • http://muve.gse.harvard.edu/rivercityproject/documents/nelson_edtech_nov2.pdf
      • Recommended Reading:
        • Second Life for Dummies
      • Video Tutorials for Second Life
        • http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Video_Tutorials

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