This is the presentation given at NEConnect in a joint effort between Montclair State University and Seton Hall.

1. Second Life Dr. Laura Nicosia Assistant Professor English Department AJ Kelton Director CHSS Technology Services Unit College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Montclair State University Teaching, Learning and Technology Center at Seton Hall University Heidi Trotta Instructional Designer Riad Twal Instructional Designer

2. What do you already know about Second Life? Why talk about Second Life?

12. Each site is “always on” and “always full of content”

13. Sites may appear vacant, but may be filled with content

14. Meet Students in “Interesting” Places

15. Second Life permits the use of unconventional educational settings and hands-on experiences that would be difficult/impossible in Real Life. Such as…

16. Dante’s Inferno and Linden Hills

19. Exposure to the “Other”

20. But, how do we teach content and skill sets using Second Life

21. Q: How do we teach content (novels and stories) & skill sets (like writing and editing) using Second Life?

23. If you build it, they will come

24. Construct 3-D Sites

25. Autonomous Learning

26. Students visit the always available site

27. They enter the learning space

28. Explore and orient themselves

29. Encounter your assigned tasks

30. They can open search engines and visit my pre-selected urls. I control the environment.

31. They receive tasks to accomplish (whether I am with them or not)

32. Students write essays on Notecards and deliver them to me via an “inworld email” system or deposit them in items.

33. Creating Notecards is as easy as opening a file.

34. Their Notecards can be as long as they need to be.

36. Hold Meetings In-world

39. The CHSS Pilot Project

40. Recreate What Exists

41. Walk into a story

42. Always “On” Content

44. Traditional Spaces

45. Create Something New

46. Engage Your Students

47. Challenges

48. Genome Island

49. The Second Louvre

50. NOAA

51. Business

52. Spaceport Alpha and Delta

53. Renaissance Island

54. San Francesco Assisi

55. InfoIsland

56. Princeton

57. The Sistine Chapel Vassar

59. Vassar Island

60. The Lost Gardens of Apollo

61. Abbott’s Aerodrome

64. ?

65. So many thanks to the numerous educators in Second Life who have shared their Second Life experiences, photographs and thoughts for this presentation! AJ Kelton (SL: AJ Brooks) keltona at mail.montclair.edu http://www.sorry-afk.com Slid eShare: sorry.afk Laura Nicosia (SL: LauraMaria Onomatopoeia) nicosiala at mail.montclair.edu SlideShare: lauranicosia Heidi Trotta (SL: Heidi TeeCee) trottahe at shi.edu http://heiditrotta.com SlideShare: trottahe Riad Twal Twaltiad at shu.edu http://pirate.shu.edu/~twalriad