Pauline Randall (aka Liz Ferlinghetti)
virtual-e Ltd
Virtual world benefits through
real world solutions

 What are you trying to achieve?
 Students won’t be entranced by some
PowerPoint slides in Second Life
 Could this teaching be done more effectively
with another tool – a web page, a VLE etc?

 Ashridge Business School - currently
creating the building then looking at different
ways of combining with current e-learning for
distance students
 JISC RSCs in Scotland - developing induction
workshops for Second Life
which include interactive
activities

 Clear purpose to being there
 Make it interesting and challenging
 Have definite outcomes

 Take a case study
 Perhaps a business plan exercise
 Lots of information on a piece of paper
 Write up your views on how viable this
business is and your proposals for moving it
forward

 Create the scenario in Second Life
 Embed the information into objects
 Let the students go and look for the
information, think about it and then write up
their report

 Using a laboratory
 Health and safety
 Hygiene in a kitchen
 Crime scene analysis

 Give your students a proper induction into
Second Life
 Don’t make activities too simple
 Ask your students for some help – building,
scripting, ideas
 Be creative, be innovative with Second Life,
make it work for you

Pauline Randall
(Liz Ferlinghetti in Second Life)
Second Life Solution Provider
www.virtual-e.co.uk
Pauline.randall@virtual-e.co.uk
virtual-e Island in Second Life
http://slurl.com/secondlife/virtual%20e/130/127/24
Virtual world benefits through
real world solutions

Places to visit in Second Life and some useful websites

 Ashridge Business School
 CyMal Museums & Libraries
 Imperial College London, Faculty of Medicine
 Square One Market Research, Florida
 University of Hawaii

 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
 Genome Island - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Genome/135/92/29
 Leeds College of Art & Design - http://slurl.com/secondlife/The%20Collective/44/69/34
 Streets of Baghdad - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Better%20World/182/192/23

 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
 Second Life – www.secondlife.com
 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/
 Virtual Worlds Review - http://www.virtualworldsreview.com/info/categories.shtml