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Agenda Trivia Questions Statistics and Terminology Research Education CTU Classes Second Life Research Links

Trivia Questions

Statistics and Terminology

Research

Education

CTU Classes

Second Life Research Links

Trivia 1 - Game and Television On which program was Svarga recently featured?

Svarga Svarga, a primitive life simulation created by Laukosargas Svarog, a Lionhead game studio developer who also worked on the game Black & White with Peter Molyneux

Trivia 1 Answer

Gartner By 2011 80% of the world’s active Internet users will be in a virtual world Also Fortune 500 enterprises, re: Reuters Over 330 million active Internet home users in March 2007 -- Nielsen ratings Business Issues Security Branding and staffing a virtual world presence

By 2011

80% of the world’s active Internet users will be in a virtual world

Also Fortune 500 enterprises, re: Reuters

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

Business Issues

Security

Branding and staffing a virtual world presence

Terminology in Second Life Avatar representation of self Island simulator or region Object linked set of prims Prim, primitive a shape you build RL - Real Life Rez to render a 3D object drag from inventory or Build menu to the ground Sim simulator or region SL - Second Life

Avatar

representation of self

Island

simulator or region

Object

linked set of prims

Prim, primitive

a shape you build

RL - Real Life

Rez

to render a 3D object

drag from inventory or Build menu to the ground

Sim

simulator or region

SL - Second Life

Avatars and Roleplay

October 2007 Prior to CSI: NY on 10/24/07 Over 2 X the size of San Francisco Over 10,419,158 accounts in Second Life Over 51,000 simultaneous logins Every day - > 120,000 people log into SL August average user - 23.6 hours per week March 2007 - over US $15 million per month 10/26/07 $1.1 million spent in 24 hrs

Prior to CSI: NY on 10/24/07

Over 2 X the size of San Francisco

Over 10,419,158 accounts in Second Life

Over 51,000 simultaneous logins

Every day - > 120,000 people log into SL

August average user - 23.6 hours per week

March 2007 - over US $15 million per month

10/26/07 $1.1 million spent in 24 hrs

Hot Research Topics Software interoperability Research and Web 2.0 integration Robots and AI Education Integration between virtual worlds Math, science and Google search Behaviors Teaching and learning in a virtual world

Software interoperability

Research and Web 2.0 integration

Robots and AI

Education

Integration between virtual worlds

Math, science and Google search

Behaviors

Teaching and learning in a virtual world

Virtual World Interoperability

Dr Dobbs - Researchers Discuss Interoperability

Research Virtual Hallucinations U of CA at Davis U of Queensboro Schizophrenia Survey instrument Seifert Surface Knot and fractal theory Crooked House Seifert Surface - Math in SL http://www.segerman.org/2ndlife.html Dr. John Bransford Center for Learning in Informal and Formal Environments (LIFE) Cooperation to navigate a maze -- we sit above, gazing at media screens with slides appear Avatars sit above the maze looking at slides

Virtual Hallucinations

U of CA at Davis

U of Queensboro

Schizophrenia

Survey instrument

Seifert Surface

Knot and fractal theory

Crooked House

Seifert Surface - Math in SL

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

Dr. John Bransford

Center for Learning in Informal and Formal Environments (LIFE)

Cooperation to navigate a maze -- we sit above, gazing at media screens with slides appear

Avatars sit above the maze looking at slides

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

Seifert Surface’s Research

Trivia 2 Math What is a Tesseract? Which popular science fiction author wrote about it? Hint: A dozen authors wrote about it, but this one is no stranger to it...

What is a Tesseract?

Which popular science fiction author wrote about it?

Hint: A dozen authors wrote about it, but this one is no stranger to it...

Modeling the Problem

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

Trivia 2 Answers What is a Tesseract? Which popular science fiction author wrote about it? A dozen wrote about it! Look at examples! A 4-dimensional hypercube Robert Heinlein in “And He Built a Crooked House” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract

What is a Tesseract?

Which popular science fiction author wrote about it? A dozen wrote about it!

Look at examples!

A 4-dimensional hypercube

Robert Heinlein in “And He Built a Crooked House”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract

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

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

CTU Exhibits - August 2007

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

Acheron LV426 Experimental Design Space by Lyr Lobo

Trivia 3 -- The Movies What science fiction movie features Acheron LV426? Who lived at Joyous Garde? Hint: there were four movies in the series. Hint: John Cleese played him in the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail

What science fiction movie features Acheron LV426?

Who lived at Joyous Garde?

Hint: there were four movies in the series.

Hint: John Cleese played him in the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail

1st NMC Teachers Buzz

Education in Second Life Thompson NETg Teen Tutorials from the Ivory Tower of Primitives - Lumiere Noir Ramapo - 400 8th graders Of Mice and Men CTU Classes CS 672 Systems Engineering Methods CS 641 Software Requirements Engineering CS 382 Software Design CS 835 Robotics

Thompson NETg

Teen Tutorials

from the Ivory Tower of Primitives - Lumiere Noir

Ramapo - 400 8th graders

Of Mice and Men

CTU Classes

CS 672 Systems Engineering Methods

CS 641 Software Requirements Engineering

CS 382 Software Design

CS 835 Robotics

Thomson NETg in SL Presenting video stream with Thomson NETg online course content

8th Graders Learn to Design

Teens and Immersive Literature Of Mice and Men in the courtroom

Colorado Tech Island

CTU Boardwalk in SL

CTU Classroom and Workspace Dementasia - CTU experimental design space by Lyr Lobo

CTU Class - 1st Day in SL

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

Virtual Office Hours

Communication in Second Life Left to right Teleport Group Notice 2nd row Voice Chat (*) Instant Message URLs embedded

Star - Basketball - Water Park The student designed, textured, linked and scripted her star project the first two hours in SL Havok physics challenged basketball project; phantom water park

Evolution - CS 672 to CS 641 Evolution of a Merry Go Round - a study in state machines

CS 641 Projects Evolution of a Ferris wheel -- on right, has a rotation problem

CS 641 - Portable Duck Shoot Score & ducks reset with push button control; Colorado Tech island

CS 641 Eliciting Requirements DART Dementasia Aerial Rapid Transit

CS 641 Requirements Projects Student designed monorail system with menu and stations

The Effects of Roleplay in Class The monorail evolved into a rollercoaster and went underwater after the customer requirements changed during roleplay.

Monorail Goes Underwater then Becomes a Rollercoaster Physics is enabled at the end, sending the car and riders rolling & plunging into the water. Scott Radel specified an attraction called The Thing in the Water

Learning Communities Bridging two CTU classes together with the monorail

Team Project by 12 Students The game maze sits 300 meters above Lyr Lobo’s Dementasia

A Capture the Flag PVP Maze Game I survived the Maze Game shirts Traps and Scoreboard PvP capture-the-flag game set in a maze filled with traps

Educational Opportunities Collaboration and community Extracurricular events Cultural venues SL groups, including educational networks Educational news Learning extends beyond the classroom Student services and union board activities Music, dance, art Real Life Education in Second Life NMC Guests www.nmc.org/sl SL in Education listserv SLED Picayune

Collaboration and community

Extracurricular events

Cultural venues

SL groups, including educational networks

Educational news

Learning extends beyond the classroom

Student services and union board activities

Music, dance, art

Real Life Education in Second Life

NMC Guests

www.nmc.org/sl

SL in Education listserv

SLED Picayune

Art Gallery Photo by Jeff Hiles

Dragons at Elf Circle Tolkienesque fantasy roleplay in a creative community

Dance - Important in SL Culture Elf Circle’s First Anniversary Celebration

Art Exhibit - StarAx Sculptures One day exhibit at the NMC Symposium October 2006

Launch at the Int’l Space Museum Notice an avatar floating overhead as the flight crew prepares to launch

Second Life and CSI: NY

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/

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

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

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

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

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/

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

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

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

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