Imaginative Classes in Second Life

Digital Learning Environments: Context Sensitive and Imaginative Classes in Second Life TCC Worldwide Online Conference 2009 April 14, 2009 Licensed under a Creative Commons Share Alike with Attribution License Cynthia Calongne Institute for Advanced Studies Colorado Technical University

How would you describe your Second Life (SL) experience? A. Using SL in your classes - educator B. Instructional designer in SL - creating content C. SL user, not building content - expert shopper D. New to Second Life E. Not using Second Life (yet)

Getting Started
Create a class environment
Meeting spaces
Second Life skills
Educational content
Class discussions
Public and student spaces
Class activity spaces
Student designs
Sandbox activities - contests, speed builds, game designs
Go to the library
Educator tools
Social networks
Go shopping
Pick up tools and freebies
Field trips
Visit the SciLands
Visit the tutorials
Use the tour HUD or a notecard with landmarks

Virtual world classrooms - open spaces and imaginative

First day in Second Life

Teen grid classes Ramapo reflection questions Part of an identity exercise

Second Life skills In your Inventory, the Library & Clothing folders hold new outfits Highlight, copy and paste the items into a new folder in the My Inventory folder

Class meetings in a gazebo - great for meetings Easy to use for classes - not ideal for content creation - the invisible walls block access to objects via the build menu

Free floating seating arrangements make it easy to build content Students create spheres, elevate them, and discuss their projects and concepts

Field trips Take a trip to the library Visit Info island, HealthInfo island and other library sites

Create your own or visit Second Life libraries

Visit the NMC, tour Second Life and share your ideas with others

Shopping for free items at the NMC Educator Freebie Center Use these items for class activities

Field Trips Visit the SciLands Science sites include the International Space Museum, NOAA, Science Fridays, Genome island and more!

Simulation of the Space Shuttle by Jimbo Perhaps

Nanotechnology lab -studying polymers

Activities
Collaboration - 1st day
Pass a ball - rez a sphere, enlarge it, set it to physical & so anyone can move it
Form a circle & pass the ball
Human barometer activity
Design .jpgs (i.e., True/False)
Upload the textures, rez a box, flatten, enlarge, texture, angle
Students take a stand on it
Roleplay
Select a case study or story, assign roles, & identify the learning objectives
Costumes and props
Project creation
Students create a design
Students use SL objects to integrate into a project
Illustrate a concept

First MBA class at Wright State University

Human barometer activity students take a stand From GlobalKids Students take a stand and discuss their opinions. As they change their minds, they move to another sign.

Middle school students roleplay the Steinbeck book Of Mice and Men

Creativity and exercises in learning to build custom content for class projects Relaxed meeting spaces

Creativity session Students learn to build, name and link these primitive shapes as they create their draft projects

Two projects: Autism and a military training interface

Newspapers for myopic users, voting machine, fridge for wheelchair users

Students create and test their user interface design projects. Identifying how to support users and their behavior.

CTU student projects on display for Wright State University

Lumiere Noir’s Ivory Tower of Primitives at Ramapo

Texture tutorial in Second Life

Class discussions in Second Life

Creativity and Group Work
Hold a conference
Student demonstrations, papers, activities
Invite educator groups
Run interactive sessions
Student-driven design
Plan an event - a play, a faire
Create content - setting
Schedule event, invite guests
Run the event - roleplay
Lessons learned
Economy
Assign parcels to students
Students create businesses and sell products
Analyze profit/loss
Group work
Plan & design (a game)
Reuse or create content
Student mentors
Integrate and use

Class meetings and seasonal fun Want a copy of this table and chairs for your classes? Send an instant message to Lyr Lobo in Second Life Ask for the Holiday gifts 2008

Work on Second Life skills Cultural Decisions Right click an avatar to Add a Friend or Use the Give a Card feature

To set up a custom voice or text conference Give a Calling Card Control click names in your Calling Cards folder Right click these names to start your custom conference

Be flexible and evaluate after trying a new activity

SL Research Links 1
Second Life
http://secondlife.com/ and http://secondlifegrid.net/
Virtual Worlds Comparison Chart
http://www.virtualenvironments.info/virtual-worlds-comparison-chart
Second Life Education Support Faire 2009 statistics
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Education_Support_Faire#Second_Life_Education_Support_Faire_2009_-_Statistics
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Education_Support_Faire
Cynthia Calongne’s Classes in Second Life
http://ctusoftware.blogspot.com
Research in Second Life presentation
http://www.slideshare.net/lyrlobo/research-in-second-life
Artificial Intelligence in SL
http://web.bvu.edu/faculty/schweller/

SL Research Links 2
National Public Radio’s Science Friday in SL
http://www.sciencefriday.com/
Virtual Worlds Management
http://www.virtualworldsmanagement.com/2009/youth-01-26-2009.html
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
Edumuve
http://edumuve.com/tour/ and http://edumuve.com/blended/

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
NMC Campus Observer
http://sl.nmc.org/

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
TCC Preconference Wiki -- SL from a Flash drive tips
http://tccpre-conference.pbwiki.com/

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
LSL Wiki -- programming tools
http://www.lslwiki.net/lslwiki/wakka.php?wakka=HomePage

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
Eric McLuhan in Second Life - Playing Media Ecology
http://slcn.tv/media-ecology-eric-mcluhan

Digital Learning Environments: Context Sensitive and Imaginative Classes in Second Life Cynthia Calongne Lyr Lobo in SL [email_address] http://edumuve.com http://ctusoftware.blogspot.com http://www.slideshare.net/lyrlobo

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