Pauline Randall
virtual-e ltd

“Second Life is
a free 3D virtual
world where
users can
socialize, connect
and create using
voice and text
chat”

 What have you heard?
 What have you seen?
 What have you thought?

 Visiting second life
 Reading the articles
 Have these changed your views?
 More favourable?
 Less favourable?

How can you use this new technology
in teaching and learning?

http://www.gartner.com/pages/story.php.id.8795.s.8.jsp

what is business
doing in Second
Life?
Collaboration
Concept testing
Conferences
Demonstrations
Meeting
Product testing
Recruitment
Training

IBM conference
One fifth of
the cost and
no jet lag
ROI $320,000

virtual world use in HE/FE Spring 2009
http://virtualworldwatch.net/snapshots/virtual-world-use-in-hefe-jan-09/

Imperial
College, London
Respiratory diagnoses

Open University
http://secondlifegrid.net.
s3.amazonaws.com/docs/
SecondLife_Case_OpenU.
pdf

Business Communicators of Second Life - http://freshtakes.typepad.com/sl_communicators/
Companies in Second Life - http://slbusinesscommunicators.pbwiki.com/Companies+in+Second+Life
Educause Review - http://connect.educause.edu/er?time=1222711572
Institutions & Organisations in SL - http://simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Institutions_and_Organizations_in_SL
JISC gaming report - http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/elearninginnovation/gamingreport_v3.pdf
Second Life – www.secondlife.com
Second Life Security -
https://support.secondlife.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=4417&task=knowledge&questionID=5566
Second Life Stats - http://secondlife.com/whatis/economy_stats.php
SLED (Second Life Educators) List - https://lists.secondlife.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/educators
SLED Blog - http://www.sl-educationblog.org/
Second Life – Worling Inworld - https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/workinginworld
Times – McKinsey Interview - http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3803056.ece
Virtual World Watch – Snapshots http://virtualworldwatch.net/snapshots/
Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_world
Other options
Virtual Worlds Review - http://www.virtualworldsreview.com/info/categories.shtml

Abyss Museum of Ocean Science - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Gun/55/42/82
Autodesk Island – Engineering Design - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Autodesk/220/117/22
Bowling Green State University - http://slurl.com/secondlife/BGSU%20Creation/255/255/33
Camp Darfur - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Better%20World/175/247/21
Chinese School - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Chinese%20School/130/196/22
Dresden Art Gallery - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Dresden%20Gallery/168/128/26
Edinburgh University - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Edinburgh%20University/128/128/28
Eduserv Island - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Eduserv%20Island/104/40/29
Genome Island - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Genome/135/92/29
Honawan – Planetarium - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Honawan/96/122/421
Illinois State – Geography-Geology - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Geo%20Island/89/73/504
Ivory Tower Library of Primitives - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Natoma/213/164/28
Leeds College of Art & Design - http://slurl.com/secondlife/The%20Collective/44/69/34
Monash University - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Monash%20University/109/147/28
Via Montenapoleone http://slurl.com/secondlife/Montenapoleone/144/178/32
Port Spinoza - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Port%20Spinoza/120/129/23
Second Health - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Second%20Health%20London/126/154/27
Streets of Baghdad - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Better%20World/182/192/23
USC Marshall Business School - http://slurl.com/secondlife/USC%20Marshall/128/128/2
Western Australia Police - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Hwanung/161/146/256

Pauline Randall
Managing Director
virtual-e Ltd
Liz Ferlinghetti in Second Life
Pauline.randall@virtual-e.co.uk
www.virtual-e.co.uk
Twitter: @virtualewit
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/paulinerandall
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