Second Life Tips Keynote Address 2008

Second Life: Teaching Tips from the Virtual Frontier Cynthia Calongne Colorado Technical University Online Teaching and Learning Conference, October 7, 2008

Teaching in a Virtual World

Virtual world class ingredients

Presence

Place

Content

Discussion

Interaction

Project Creation

Assessment

Eric McLuhan in Second Life SLCN machinima October 27, 2007 http://slcn.tv/media-ecology-eric-mcluhan

Presence Who are these people?

Sense of Presence

Appearance

1st self or ideal self?

Movement

SL user interface

Animation override (AO) custom device

Communication

Voice, text, gestures

Group Notices & IMs

Hair, skin, shape and clothes

Moving your avatar

Arrow keys or Navigation Menu

Poses and animations

Looking at the class

Camera controls

Arrows or View menu

If You Build It, They Will Come

The interaction between people and content

Explore

Discover

Discuss

Create

Play

A student ignites the professor

Colorado Tech Island Classes and live music festivals on Colorado Tech in SL Student projects are displayed on the Boardwalk and on Lyr Lobo’s class islands

Imaginative Learning Spaces Bardic storytelling circle in the foreground; fairytale designs

Instructor and student-designed projects Creative and innovative environments Spaces where students can get messy and learn

Virtual Office Hours Underwater office - a window with a view!

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

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

Second Life Classes at CTU MGM 845 Strategic Thinking CS 855 Socio-technical Futuring 10+ classes taught in Second Life

Robotics Projects Four projects were created during a 3-week class session

Blended Reality Meetings Use of games in education The MacArthur Foundation answers Lyr Lobo’s question during the Fall 2006 NMC Symposium in Second Life Avatars in Second Life interact with the panel

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

Getting Ready to Teach and Learn

Readiness checklist

Avatar -- yourself!

Appearance

Communication

User interface

Motor skills

Camera controls

Class content

Activities

Assessment

Lyr Lobo and Dancer in Second Life

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

Shall we dance? Movement in Second Life

Learning Times Reception Dance animation menu displays after clicking the floor; control menus on screen

Social Networking A screenshot of the reception in Second Life from a dual monitor system; notice Twitter in the back channel

Looking at Objects and People

Camera orientation

Control

Coordination

Confidence

Alt click an object

Your camera locks onto it

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

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

Virtual World Learning Spaces Nanotechnology Lab in Second Life, an asynchronous learning environment

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

Interactivities Human barometer activity Futuring and Innovation students take a stand CTU students shop for academic regalia at the NMC Orientation island

Bridging Classes Together A student created a monorail and sent it up 300 meters to the visit another class. Not unlike running down the hall to visit a different class

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

Modeling the Problem

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

CS 820 at CTU included novice users who learned to build their class projects

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

Student projects and class content on display at Acheron LV426

Students new to SL create class projects and conduct usability tests in a virtual world

Evaluating Student Work Conducting usability tests of two accessibility projects

Virtual Spaces and Content

Immersive, interactive, imaginative settings

Asynchronous and synchronous activities

3D graphics, sounds, gestures and interaction

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

Are you ready to teach in Second Life?

SL Research Links 1

Second Life

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

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/

TCC Preconference Wiki -- SL from a Flash drive tips

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

Edumuve

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

SL Research Links 2

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

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

Second Life: Teaching Tips from the Virtual Frontier Cynthia Calongne Lyr Lobo in Second Life [email_address] http://ctusoftware.blogspot.com www.slideshare.net/lyrlobo For more information 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. Second Life is a trademark of Linden Lab. No infringement is intended. Images of the SL interface are the property of Linden Lab.