Second Life for Education

3D Virtual Worlds for Education

MUD Interface

AVATAR (MUD)

WOW http:// www.worldofwarcraft.com /

There.com http:// www.there.com /

Forterra http:// www.forterrainc.com

Active Worlds www.activeworlds.com

Croquet Anyone? http://www.opencroquet.org/

Perplex City (ARG) http://www.welovepuzzles.com/

Second Life Today

But What is Second Life?

What Does It Bring to the Table for Learning?

Information/Awareness American Cancer Society mixed-reality event, Relay for Life, raised $40,000 in SL alone

Information/Awareness American Cancer Society Relay for Life

Immersive Environments

Data Visualization Read more about the weather map

Simple Simulations

Building Tools

Collaborative Spaces Collaborative architecture video on YouTube

Social Interaction

What Educators Are Already Doing

Aarhus Business College: Aarhus , Denmark

Arcada University of Technology: Helsingfors , Finland

The Art Institute of California-San Diego San Diego, CA

The Art Institute of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh , PA

Audiocourses Music Production School: London, United Kingdom

Australian Film TV and Radio School: Sydney, Australia

Ball State University: Muncie, IN

The Bay School of San Francisco: San Francisco, CA

Beach College: Santa Barbara, CA

Bentley College - Department of Natural and Applied Sciences: Waltham, MA

Bradley University, Peoria, IL

Bromley College of Further and Higher Education

California State University - Pomona: Pomona, CA

Central Missouri State University: Warrensburg, Missouri

Central Piedmont Community College - Futures Institute: Charlotte, NC

Colorado Mountain College: Glendwood Springs, CO

Columbia University: New York, NY

Dyersburg State Community College: Dyersburg, TN

Elon University: Elon , NC

Finger Lakes Community College: Canandaigua, NY

Fullerton College: Fullerton, CA

Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture University of Houston: Houston, TX

Harvard University: Cambridge, Mass .

Idaho State University: Pocatello, Idaho .

Illinois State University: Normal, IL

Indiana University: Bloomington, IN

Insead

Institut Ingemedia : Toulon, France

Johnson & Wales University: Providence, RI & 5 Western States

Kalamazoo Valley Community College: Kalamazoo, MI

Leeds College of Art and Design: West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Leeds Metropolitan University: West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Lehigh Carbon Community College: Schnecksville, PA

Loyalist College: Belleville, ON, Canada

Mayville State University: Mayville, ND

Minneapolis College of Art and Design: Minneapolis, MN

Minnesota State Colleges and Universities

Montana State University: Bozeman, Montana

Nanyang Polytechnic: Singapore

Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology: Nelson, New Zealand

New York University - McGhee Division: New York, NY

Newcastle University Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Northern Illinois University: DeKalb, IL

Ohio State University: Columbus, OH

Oklahoma City University: Oklahoma City, OK The Open University: Milton Keynes, UK Oregon State University: Corvallis, OR Otis College of Art and Design Los Angeles, CA Pellissippi State Technical Community College: Knoxville, TN Pennsylvania State University: (Various towns), PA Pepperdine Universtiy: Malibu, CA Platt (Media Arts) College San Diego : San Diego, CA San Diego State University: San Diego, Calif. San Francisco State University: San Francisco, CA Savannah College of Art & Design: Savannah, GA; Atlanta, GA; Lacoste , France Seton Hall University: South Orange, NJ Sheffield Hallam University: Sheffield, UK / Sogang University: Seoul, Korea Stanford University: Palo Alto, CA SUNY Empire State College: Saratoga Springs, NY Temple University: Philadelphia, PA Texas State University: San Marcos, Texas The Bay School of San Francisco: San Francisco, CA Thomas Jefferson University: Philadelphia, PA Trinity University: San Antonio, Texas Center for Distance Education, UAF Fairbanks, Alaska University of Bedfordshire Luton & Bedford, UK University of California Berkeley University of Cincinnati: Cincinnati, OH University of Colorado at Denver Medical Center: Denver, CO University of Connecticut: Hartford, CT University of Derby: Derby, UK University of Edinburgh: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK University of Florida: Gainesville, FL University of Massachusetts: North Dartmouth, MA University of Minnesota, School of Physics and Astronomy: Minneapolis, MN University of Missouri - Kansas City: Kansas City, Missouri University of Nevada, Reno: Reno, NV University of Paisley: Paisley, Scotland, UK University of Southern California: Los Angeles, CA University of Southern Denmark ( Syddansk Universitet ) University of Surrey: Guildford, UK University of Sydney: Sydney, Australia http:// www.utk.edu University of Texas at Dallas: Richardson, Texas University of Texas Medical Branch: Galveston, Texas University of Wales, Newport: Newport, Wales, UK

Discussions/Conferences

NOAA (Meteroa Island)

International Spaceflight Museum

NMC Campus

Life Sciences Building

Middletown

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CyberOne

Ketchikan Dry Dock

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