CTU Presentation on Research in Second LIfe

Research and CTU in Second Life Copyright Cynthia M. Calongne, 2008. Permission is granted for this material to be shared under a Creative Commons Attribution - Share Alike 3.0 United States. You are free to copy, distribute, display, perform, remix and make derivative works. Attribute the work to Cynthia M. Calongne and distribute it with a similar or compatible license. Cynthia Calongne Colorado Technical University DCS-EIS April 18, 2008

Research in a Virtual World

Integrates

People -- that sense of presence

Avatars, movement and communication

Places

Settings that provide a context for exploration

Content

Science, culture, behavior, innovation, branding

Accomplishments

simulations, studies, experimental designs, business

Virtual World Explosion

By the end of 2011

80% of the world’s active Internet users will be in a virtual world (Gartner, 2007)

Over 330 million active Internet home users in March 2007 -- Nielsen ratings

Education

Over 400 universities and 4500 educators in SL

Congressional hearings held in April 2008

Concerns on teen use, terrorism, security

How we Teach and Learn in SL

Self image

Mentor, collaborate

Social networks

Class projects

Roleplay

Learning games

Blended reality

Exploration

Build

Create an avatar - you!

Office hours, facilitation

Share ideas, hold meetings

Applied learning

Immersive learning

Interactivities

Real & virtual meetings

Visit, tour, study

Create and customize

If 80% of the world’s Internet users will be in a virtual world by 2011 (Gartner, 2007) -- Are you ready?

Virtual World Learning Spaces

An environment for learning includes

Communication tools for sharing ideas

Content that maps to the the course objectives

A variety of course delivery methods

Nanotechnology Lab in Second Life An asynchronous learning environment

Science Comes to Life The National Physics Laboratory presents the advances in Nanotechnology Interactive Nano Labs

Middle School Students at Ramapo Roleplay and conflict in an immersive literature class Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, portrayed by Suffern Middle School students

MBA 770 Class at Wright State Shu’s students prepare for a collaboration exercise in Second Life

Virtual Hallucinations University of Queensboro University of Calif, Davis Survey Instrument in SL Voices and Perception

Content at Virtual Hallucinations Words leap out at you, simulating an experience

Interactive Learning Spaces Dr. Dobb’s Life 2.0 visit http://life20.net Acheron LV426 CTU class work space

Modeling the Problem

Crooked House You never run out of house as it rolls over while you walk

Cooperation Theory We sit above, seeing the maze and the demonstration viewers

SL Research

VITAL Lab -- Software Engineering Process Game and more

http://vital.cs.ohiou.edu/vitalwiki/index.php/Second_Life_Development

Eric McLuhan on animation and the Egyptian silhouette

Conferences and Symposiums

Eric McLuhan in SL

Robotics at CTU Student, instructor and Big Robot on Campus group robots

MacArthur Foundation in SL Philip Linden, CEO of Linden Lab Meets with the MacArthur Foundation

Real and Virtual Meetings NMC Symposium, Lyr Lobo queries the MacArthur Foundation

Meetings around the Campfire

Thomson NETg in SL Using a video stream with Thomson NETg’s online course content

8th Graders Learn to Design

Colorado Tech Island

CTU Boardwalk in SL

CTU Class - 1st Day in SL

Robotics Class Projects R obots by CTU doctoral students and Lyr Lobo on Acheron LV426

If You Build It, They Will Come

The interaction between people and content

Students, faculty, instructional designers

Support for active and passive learners

Support for a variety of learning styles

How do you learn?

Discussion

Exploration

Discovery

Creation

Otis College Art Projects

Instructor-designed classrooms use creative and innovative environments Experimental Design Classrooms

CS 820 at CTU -- doctoral students study how to design their prototypes

A self-guided tutorial for building a 20-minute project

Preparing for CTU student presentations and usability tests using empirical methods

Student projects and class content on display at Acheron LV426

CS 820 from Fall 2007 conducts usability evaluations using empircal testing

Virtual Meetings, Interactive Content (top two images, left to right) The House of Seven Gables session (bottom image) Jared Bendis on Digital Tattoos NMC Fall Symposium in SL 2008

Getting Ready to Teach

Readiness checklist

Avatar -- yourself!

Appearance

Communication

User interface

Using the tool

Motor skills

Camera controls

Content

Activities, simulations

Lyr Lobo in Second Life

Sense of Presence

Appearance

1st self or ideal self?

Movement

SL user interface

Animation override (AO) custom device

Communication

Voice, text, gestures

Hair, skin, shape and clothes

Moving your avatar

Arrow keys or View menu and Movement

Poses and animations

Looking at the class

Camera controls

Arrows or View menu

How Will Your Avatar Look?

Looking at Objects and People

Camera orientation

Hold down your alt key and left mouse click on a person or an object to focus on it

Your display will follow the person or the object’s movement

Use your scroll wheel to zoom in and out

Use the Escape key twice (Esc) to return to your view

Controlling What You See

Camera controls

To move around a person or object

Let’s look at your face!

Press and hold down

ctrl + alt + left button

All 3 at the same time

And on a Mac?

Move your hand down, around and up while pressing these keys to move your camera around the object

Navigation Controls Can also use the arrow keys Camera Controls Handy for Capturing Video

Communicating in Second Life with 1-2000+ avatars Left to right Teleport Group notice 2nd row Voice chat - Sound waves overhead Instant message Group messages

Movement at the TCC Reception Dance animation menu displays after clicking the floor; control menus on screen

Social Networking in Second Life A screenshot of the TCC Reception in Second Life from a dual monitor system; notice Twitter in the back channel Attendees at conferences report events as they happen via Twitter, integrating Web 2.0 tools with virtual world interaction

Content and Virtual Spaces

Research studies scientific, cultural, social, political, educational and business issues

Virtual world classes support

Immersive, interactive, imaginative settings

Asynchronous and synchronous support

3D graphics, sounds, gestures and interaction

Immersive literature, immersive history, scientific discovery, contextual settings, applied math, creativity and social networks

Activity-based learning

SL Research Links

Research in Second Life presentation

http://www. slideshare .net/ lyrlobo / research -in-second-life

Artificial Intelligence in SL

http://web.bvu.edu/faculty/schweller/

TCC Preconference Wiki -- SL from a Flash drive tips

http://tccpre-conference.pbwiki.com/

Libsecondlife -- programming tools

http://www.libsecondlife.org/wiki/Main_Page

LSL Wiki -- programming tools

http://www.lslwiki.net/lslwiki/wakka.php?wakka=HomePage

Edumuve

http://edumuve.com/tour/ and http://edumuve.com/blended/

SL Research Links 2

Second Life http://secondlife.com/ http://secondlifegrid.net/

National Public Radio’s Science Friday in SL

http://www.sciencefriday.com/

NMC Campus Observer

http://sl.nmc.org/

NOAA’s Traffic Analysis

http://mayarealities.com/

Best Practices in SL

http://www.slcn.tv/bpe-lyr-lobo

Annotated Bibliograophy of SL Educational Resources

http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~mpepper/slbib

SL Research Links 3

Second Life as a Virtual Learning Environment

http://www.dokimos.org/secondlife/education/index.html

An Educational Tour of Second Life

http://www. slideshare .net/ lyrlobo /an-educational-tour-of-second-life

A View from Second Life’s Trenches: Are you a Pioneer or a Settler?

http://sl.nmc.org/2007/06/09/pioneer-or-settler/

Leveraging the Affordances, Minimizing the Barriers of Virtual Worlds

http://sl.nmc.org/2007/06/09/edu-panel/

LearnScope in Second Life

http://www. slideshare .net/ lyrlobo / learnscope -in-second-life

SL Research Links 4

Using Second Life

www. educause . edu / ir /library/ powerpoint /SAC07025A. pps

Beyond Course Management Tools: Second Life

www. educause . edu / ir /library/ powerpoint /SAC07014. pps

Virtual worlds in Online Education: Are You Ready to Teach in Second Life?

http://www.telecoop.org/conference/materials/CalogneTeachinginSecondLife.ppt

What Can We Learn from World of Warcraft & Second Life?

http://archive.nmc.org/events/2006fallregional/materials/calongne.ppt

SL Podcast by Bayne, Walker and Calongne

http://connect.educause.edu/blog/gbayne/podcastusingsecondli/44967?time=1188754831

SL Research Links 5

Who’s on Second? Educational Podcasts

http://www.rabble.ca/rpn/podcast.php?id=wos

Second Life Development -- VITAL Lab

http://vital.cs.ohiou.edu/vitalwiki/index.php/Second_Life_Development

Suffern Middle School in Second Life

http://rampoislands.blogspot.com/2007_02_01_archive.html

Second Life Library 2.0

http://www.infoisland.org/drupal/ and http://www.myspace.com/73899784

Second Life Education Wiki

http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Second_Life_Education_Wiki

SL Research Links 6

Secondary Worlds

http://secondaryworlds.com/

Reuters -- Doors to open on Google Virtual world(s)?

http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2007/10/24/doors-to-open-on-google-virtual-worlds/

SL and Google Earth are Transforming the Idea of Architectural Collaboration

http://archrecord.construction.com/features/digital/archives/0701dignews-2.asp

Timeline - History of Second Life Wiki

http://secondlife.wikia.com/index.php/Second_Life_Through_The_Ages

UberNoggin: Big Brains - Big Ideas

http://www.ubernoggin.com/

SL Research Links 7 News

Reuters in Second life

http://secondlife.reuters.com/

The SL Newspaper

http://www.sl-newspaper.com/

Second Life Herald

http://www.secondlifeherald.com/

Metaverse Messenger

http://metaversemessenger.com/index.html

SLNN

http://www.slnn.com/index.php

SL Research Links 8

New Worlds Notes

http://nwn.blogs.com/

SL A Virtual Universe for Real Engineering

http://www.designnews.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA6490691

Just Virtual

http://www.justvirtual.com/index.php/category/second-life/

Seifert Surface - Math in Second Life

http://www.segerman.org/2ndlife.html

Research and CTU in Second Life Are you ready? Lyr Lobo in Second Life Ryl Redgrave on the Teen Grid at Ramapo [email_address] For more information, contact