The document explores teaching strategies in the virtual environment of Second Life, highlighting interactive elements such as avatar creation, communication, and project collaboration. It discusses various educational projects and classes conducted in Second Life, emphasizing the potential for immersive learning experiences and blended reality meetings. Additionally, it provides a wealth of resources and links for further exploration of Second Life as a virtual learning platform.

1. Second Life: Teaching Tips from the Virtual Frontier Cynthia Calongne Colorado Technical University Online Teaching and Learning Conference, October 7, 2008

2. Teaching in a Virtual World Virtual world class ingredients Presence Place Content Discussion Interaction Project Creation Assessment

3. Eric McLuhan in Second Life SLCN machinima October 27, 2007 http://slcn.tv/media-ecology-eric-mcluhan

4. Presence Who are these people?

5. Sense of Presence Appearance 1st self or ideal self? Movement SL user interface Animation override (AO) custom device Communication Voice, text, gestures Group Notices & IMs Hair, skin, shape and clothes Moving your avatar Arrow keys or Navigation Menu Poses and animations Looking at the class Camera controls Arrows or View menu

6. If You Build It, They Will Come The interaction between people and content Explore Discover Discuss Create Play A student ignites the professor

7. Colorado Tech Island Classes and live music festivals on Colorado Tech in SL Student projects are displayed on the Boardwalk and on Lyr Lobo’s class islands

8. Imaginative Learning Spaces Bardic storytelling circle in the foreground; fairytale designs

9. Instructor and student-designed projects Creative and innovative environments Spaces where students can get messy and learn

10. Virtual Office Hours Underwater office - a window with a view!

11. How we Teach and Learn in SL Self image Mentor, collaborate Social networks Class projects Roleplay Learning games Blended reality Exploration Build Create an avatar - you! Office hours, facilitation Share ideas, hold meetings Applied learning Immersive learning Interactivities Real & virtual meetings Visit, tour, study Create and customize 80% of the world’s Internet users will be in a virtual world by 2011 (Gartner, 2007) -- Are you ready?

12. Second Life Classes at CTU MGM 845 Strategic Thinking CS 855 Socio-technical Futuring 10+ classes taught in Second Life

13. Robotics Projects Four projects were created during a 3-week class session

14. Blended Reality Meetings Use of games in education The MacArthur Foundation answers Lyr Lobo’s question during the Fall 2006 NMC Symposium in Second Life Avatars in Second Life interact with the panel

15. MBA 770 Class at Wright State Shu Shiller’s students participate in a collaboration exercise in Second Life

16. Getting Ready to Teach and Learn Readiness checklist Avatar -- yourself! Appearance Communication User interface Motor skills Camera controls Class content Activities Assessment Lyr Lobo and Dancer in Second Life

17. Communicating with students in Second Life Left to right Teleport Group Notice 2nd row Voice Chat (*) Instant Message URLs embedded

18. Shall we dance? Movement in Second Life

19. Learning Times Reception Dance animation menu displays after clicking the floor; control menus on screen

20. Social Networking A screenshot of the reception in Second Life from a dual monitor system; notice Twitter in the back channel

21. Looking at Objects and People Camera orientation Control Coordination Confidence Alt click an object Your camera locks onto it Use the Escape key twice (Esc) to return to your view

22. Science Comes to Life The National Physics Laboratory presents the advances in Nanotechnology Interactive Nano Labs

23. Virtual World Learning Spaces Nanotechnology Lab in Second Life, an asynchronous learning environment

24. Middle School Students at Ramapo Roleplay and conflict in an immersive literature class Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, portrayed by Suffern Middle School students

25. Interactivities Human barometer activity Futuring and Innovation students take a stand CTU students shop for academic regalia at the NMC Orientation island

26. Bridging Classes Together A student created a monorail and sent it up 300 meters to the visit another class. Not unlike running down the hall to visit a different class

27. Virtual Hallucinations University of Queensboro University of Calif, Davis Survey Instrument in SL Voices and Perception

28. Modeling the Problem

29. Crooked House You never run out of house as it rolls over while you walk

30. CS 820 at CTU included novice users who learned to build their class projects

31. A self-guided tutorial for building a 20-minute project

32. Student projects and class content on display at Acheron LV426

33. Students new to SL create class projects and conduct usability tests in a virtual world

34. Evaluating Student Work Conducting usability tests of two accessibility projects

35. Virtual Spaces and Content Immersive, interactive, imaginative settings Asynchronous and synchronous activities 3D graphics, sounds, gestures and interaction Immersive literature, immersive history, scientific discovery, contextual settings, applied math, creativity and social networks Are you ready to teach in Second Life?

36. SL Research Links 1 Second Life http://secondlife.com/ http://secondlifegrid.net/ 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/ TCC Preconference Wiki -- SL from a Flash drive tips http://tccpre-conference.pbwiki.com/ Edumuve http://edumuve.com/tour/ and http://edumuve.com/blended/

37. SL Research Links 2 National Public Radio’s Science Friday in SL http://www.sciencefriday.com/ NMC Campus Observer http://sl.nmc.org/ 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

38. 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

39. 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

40. 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

41. 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/

42. 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

43. 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

44. Second Life: Teaching Tips from the Virtual Frontier Cynthia Calongne Lyr Lobo in Second Life [email_address] http://ctusoftware.blogspot.com www.slideshare.net/lyrlobo For more information Copyright Cynthia M. Calongne, 2008. Permission is granted for this material to be shared under a Creative Commons Attribution - Share Alike 3.0 United States. Second Life is a trademark of Linden Lab. No infringement is intended. Images of the SL interface are the property of Linden Lab.