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