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SECOND LIFE IN EDUCATION

SECOND LIFE IN EDUCATION. Second Life in Education. Rodan Rodenberger aka Rhonda Berger CT&D. Jellie Lane aka Janelle Fernandez Virtual College. What is Second Life?. Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely created by its Residents.

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SECOND LIFE IN EDUCATION

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  1. SECOND LIFEIN EDUCATION

  2. Second Life in Education Rodan Rodenberger aka Rhonda BergerCT&D Jellie Lane aka Janelle FernandezVirtual College

  3. What is Second Life? • Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely created by its Residents. • Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by millions of residents from around the globe.

  4. How is it used? • Social Interaction & Networking • Businesses (Both in SL and real life) • Government – NASA, NOAA • Entrepreneurial endeavors • Creative Arts (live music, etc.) • Education – List of schools • Prototyping • Role-playing • Buy & Sell objects like real life

  5. Second Life in Education • Active Learning: • An ideal platform for engaging students in creating their own learning activities, experiences and environments, and not just be passive consumers of learning. • 3D virtual worlds can provide: • Opportunities for rich sensory immersive experiences. • Authentic contexts and activities for experiential learning, simulation and role-play.

  6. Sample Institutions Central Piedmont College Princeton University

  7. Let’s take a tour…. • Educational Use Video • Ohio State University YouTube

  8. English Class • English students at the University of Texas-Austin each picked a role model, created an avatar and assumed the role of the avatar for the activity. Among avatars: Malcolm X, Oprah, Mother Teresa, Bill Gates and Teddy Roosevelt. The students conducted conversations in the personae of their avatars.

  9. Language/Cultural Learning • The 3D virtual world "Second Life" is full of places to practice a foreign language - you can speak with real people all over the world. On the Avatar Languages web. You can click on a map to go directly to a country.

  10. Business • Thousands of residents are making part or all of their real life income from their Second Life Businesses. • Linden Dollars • Existing in-world companies also have Second Life presence • Cisco • IBM • MTV • Starwood Hotels • Sun Microsystems • Holds press conferences in their “Sun Pavilion”

  11. Nursing/Medicine • NESIMOR is a 3-D simulator that uses the online virtual of Second Life to practice diagnosing and treating patients in a simulated emergency department environment. It is currently being used to instruct nursing students at Tacoma Community College. • Nursing Field Trip

  12. Science • NOAA • NASA • Genome Project • Video: Science Learning Opportunities • History of the Earth and Life on Earth: Students in Chris Impey’s astrobiology course at the University of Arizona contributed to his History of the Earth and Life on Earth exhibit.

  13. Psychology/Sociology • UC Davies – Schizophrenia • Koolaid people - Creating Community/Exploring diversity • Utopian Society • Body Image • Ethnic/Gender Studies

  14. ART & Humanities • 3D Modeling • Galleries • Contests • The Louvre SL Art Gallery List

  15. Socialization • Social Gatherings • Parties • Dance Clubs

  16. Virtual Concerts SL Users have the best seats in the house to these concerts

  17. Training • Emergency Preparedness • Companies are combining the use of Second Life and the (Nintendo) WiiMote to train employees on things such as: • Inspecting a house for moisture and heat sources • Mixing chemicals and loading them onto a truck • Power Plant training • Driving simulations • Using products like Google Maps and Google Earth, simulation can represent actual streets on-screen, so that not every trainee in America has to drive down the "same mythical Maple Street”. • Training modules include those intersections and locations where there is a history of accidents.

  18. Conferences • SL provides online facilities for entire conferences to take place via the web • Conferences sometimes held on SL and simultaneously in a live facility

  19. Second Life Resource Site http://sites.google.com/a/mymdc.net/mdcsl

  20. Miami Dade College Island • Foundation Grant • Class Meeting Rooms • Training • Demonstration

  21. Questions ?

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