This document discusses the use of Second Life as a digital learning environment, offering strategies for educators and instructional designers to create interactive and imaginative classes. It highlights various activities such as field trips, role-playing, and content creation that enhance student engagement and collaboration. It also provides links to resources and best practices for effectively leveraging Second Life in educational settings.

1. Digital Learning Environments: Context Sensitive and Imaginative Classes in Second Life TCC Worldwide Online Conference 2009 April 14, 2009 Licensed under a Creative Commons Share Alike with Attribution License Cynthia Calongne Institute for Advanced Studies Colorado Technical University

2. How would you describe your Second Life (SL) experience? A. Using SL in your classes - educator B. Instructional designer in SL - creating content C. SL user, not building content - expert shopper D. New to Second Life E. Not using Second Life (yet)

3. Getting Started Create a class environment Meeting spaces Second Life skills Educational content Class discussions Public and student spaces Class activity spaces Student designs Sandbox activities - contests, speed builds, game designs Go to the library Educator tools Social networks Go shopping Pick up tools and freebies Field trips Visit the SciLands Visit the tutorials Use the tour HUD or a notecard with landmarks

4. Virtual world classrooms - open spaces and imaginative

5. First day in Second Life

6. Teen grid classes Ramapo reflection questions Part of an identity exercise

7. Second Life skills In your Inventory, the Library & Clothing folders hold new outfits Highlight, copy and paste the items into a new folder in the My Inventory folder

8. Class meetings in a gazebo - great for meetings Easy to use for classes - not ideal for content creation - the invisible walls block access to objects via the build menu

9. Free floating seating arrangements make it easy to build content Students create spheres, elevate them, and discuss their projects and concepts

10. Field trips Take a trip to the library Visit Info island, HealthInfo island and other library sites

11. Create your own or visit Second Life libraries

12. Visit the NMC, tour Second Life and share your ideas with others

13. Shopping for free items at the NMC Educator Freebie Center Use these items for class activities

14. Field Trips Visit the SciLands Science sites include the International Space Museum, NOAA, Science Fridays, Genome island and more!

15. Simulation of the Space Shuttle by Jimbo Perhaps

16. Nanotechnology lab -studying polymers

17. Activities Collaboration - 1st day Pass a ball - rez a sphere, enlarge it, set it to physical & so anyone can move it Form a circle & pass the ball Human barometer activity Design .jpgs (i.e., True/False) Upload the textures, rez a box, flatten, enlarge, texture, angle Students take a stand on it Roleplay Select a case study or story, assign roles, & identify the learning objectives Costumes and props Project creation Students create a design Students use SL objects to integrate into a project Illustrate a concept

18. First MBA class at Wright State University

19. Human barometer activity students take a stand From GlobalKids Students take a stand and discuss their opinions. As they change their minds, they move to another sign.

20. Middle school students roleplay the Steinbeck book Of Mice and Men

21. Creativity and exercises in learning to build custom content for class projects Relaxed meeting spaces

22. Creativity session Students learn to build, name and link these primitive shapes as they create their draft projects

23. Two projects: Autism and a military training interface

24. Newspapers for myopic users, voting machine, fridge for wheelchair users

25. Students create and test their user interface design projects. Identifying how to support users and their behavior.

26. CTU student projects on display for Wright State University

27. Lumiere Noir’s Ivory Tower of Primitives at Ramapo

28. Texture tutorial in Second Life

29. Class discussions in Second Life

30. Creativity and Group Work Hold a conference Student demonstrations, papers, activities Invite educator groups Run interactive sessions Student-driven design Plan an event - a play, a faire Create content - setting Schedule event, invite guests Run the event - roleplay Lessons learned Economy Assign parcels to students Students create businesses and sell products Analyze profit/loss Group work Plan & design (a game) Reuse or create content Student mentors Integrate and use

31. Class meetings and seasonal fun Want a copy of this table and chairs for your classes? Send an instant message to Lyr Lobo in Second Life Ask for the Holiday gifts 2008

32. Work on Second Life skills Cultural Decisions Right click an avatar to Add a Friend or Use the Give a Card feature

33. To set up a custom voice or text conference Give a Calling Card Control click names in your Calling Cards folder Right click these names to start your custom conference

34. Be flexible and evaluate after trying a new activity

35. SL Research Links 1 Second Life http://secondlife.com/ and http://secondlifegrid.net/ Virtual Worlds Comparison Chart http://www.virtualenvironments.info/virtual-worlds-comparison-chart Second Life Education Support Faire 2009 statistics http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Education_Support_Faire#Second_Life_Education_Support_Faire_2009_-_Statistics http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Education_Support_Faire 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/

36. SL Research Links 2 National Public Radio’s Science Friday in SL http://www.sciencefriday.com/ Virtual Worlds Management http://www.virtualworldsmanagement.com/2009/youth-01-26-2009.html 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 Edumuve http://edumuve.com/tour/ and http://edumuve.com/blended/

37. 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 NMC Campus Observer http://sl.nmc.org/

38. 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 TCC Preconference Wiki -- SL from a Flash drive tips http://tccpre-conference.pbwiki.com/

39. 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

40. 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/

41. 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

42. 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

43. Digital Learning Environments: Context Sensitive and Imaginative Classes in Second Life Cynthia Calongne Lyr Lobo in SL [email_address] http://edumuve.com http://ctusoftware.blogspot.com http://www.slideshare.net/lyrlobo