Second Life @ MSU AJ Kelton / AJ Brooks DIRECTOR OF TEACHING AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGY COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES @ MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY

What do you already know about Second Life? Why Second Life?

A Universe of Virtual Worlds Platforms Adult - 22 Teen /Tween - 18 “ Kids” - 15 55 virtual platforms 80.8 million users

What is Second Life? Officially Launched in 2003 (beta in 1999) “ Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents.” A flexible space for learning and exploration An opportunity for people to interact in a way that conveys a sense of presence lacking in other media. Generalized rather than contextual, applicable to almost any discipline, business, industry, etc...

Officially Launched in 2003 (beta in 1999)

“ Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents.”

A flexible space for learning and exploration

An opportunity for people to interact in a way that conveys a sense of presence lacking in other media.

Generalized rather than contextual, applicable to almost any discipline, business, industry, etc...

What is Second Life? Second life is NOT a game - there are no rules or a fixed goal-oriented purpose. 10-15K sign ups daily - over 13 million total 30 - 60K residents on at one time - avg 50K (2000 census puts Montclair and Little Falls at about 50K) over $1 million spent daily (real US dollars) Well over 300 educational institutions with thousands of meters of land dedicated to education

Second life is NOT a game - there are no rules or a fixed goal-oriented purpose.

10-15K sign ups daily - over 13 million total

30 - 60K residents on at one time - avg 50K (2000 census puts Montclair and Little Falls at about 50K)

over $1 million spent daily (real US dollars)

Well over 300 educational institutions with thousands of meters of land dedicated to education

The CHSS Pilot Project

Recreate What Exists

Recreate what exists, differently!

Recreate what exists, differently!

Walk into a story

Always “On” Content

Traditional Spaces

Engage Your Students

Business

Collaboration

Genome Island

NOAA

Spaceport Alpha and Delta

Abbott’s Aerodrome

The Second Louvre

Renaissance Island

DANTE’S INFERNO

The Lost Gardens of Apollo

San Francesco Assisi

Princeton

The Sistine Chapel Vassar

Vassar Island

InfoIsland

Kelly Employment Services

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Resources MUVEing Education Forward: An Unconference for Anyone Interested in Second Life as a Tool for Teaching and Learning Monday, June 23rd, 2008 @ Montclair State Free and open to all http://capricorn.montclair.edu/mediawiki/index.php/MUVEing_Education_Forward EDUCAUSE Virtual Worlds Constituent Group http://www.educause.edu/groups/vw This slide presentation http://www.slide share.net/sorry.afk/080414-tag/ M y Contact Information (email, blogs, presentations, etc... ) http://www.sorry-afk.com

MUVEing Education Forward: An Unconference for Anyone Interested in Second Life as a Tool for Teaching and Learning Monday, June 23rd, 2008 @ Montclair State Free and open to all http://capricorn.montclair.edu/mediawiki/index.php/MUVEing_Education_Forward

EDUCAUSE Virtual Worlds Constituent Group http://www.educause.edu/groups/vw

This slide presentation http://www.slide share.net/sorry.afk/080414-tag/

M y Contact Information (email, blogs, presentations, etc... ) http://www.sorry-afk.com