Second Life Teacher's Toolkit

Slide 1: Second Life Teacher’s Toolkit PF Anderson, pfa@umich.edu a.k.a. Perplexity “Lexi” Peccable (SL)

Slide 2: Education as SL’s “killer app” • “Second Life removes the distance from the distance learning equation.” Joe Miller, quoted in “Is Second Life Learning’s Second Chance?” T+D (Training & Development): http://tdblog.typepad.com/td_blog/2008/01/is-second-life.html

Slide 3: SL for distance learning • “Even up to present, much of distance learning has been made time convenient but impersonal. Avatar-based virtual world education is highly interactive, providing the same convenience of not having to travel while providing a richer, more effective and more enjoyable experience. … Whether used for distance or classroom learning, the benefits of this rapidly expanding and adaptable virtual technology become manifest. The most common disadvantages that have existed in online education are now overcome.” Theodore Wright, Second Life as a Virtual Learning Environment. <http://www.dokimos.org/secondlife/education/>

Slide 4: Education as a driver for SL “I think five years, ten years from • now, those few things that we couldn’t have even imagined, all of that innovation will come out of the educator community itself. They will experiment, they’ll push the boundaries, they’ll quantify how it’s being used as a learning platform and how it’s teaching students in ways that they couldn’t be taught before.” • http://blog.secondlife.com/2008/0 6/02/inside-the-lab-podcast-a- discussion-on-education-in- second-life/

Slide 5: Current trends - Orientation & training • Robot-led new hire orientation: http://www.ahg.com/New %20Hire%20Orientation%20Done%20by%20Robot.pdf

Slide 6: Current trends - Health skills • MD to fight stress in Second Life: http://www.boston .com/business/tec hnology/articles/2 008/03/03/md_to_ fight_stress_in_se cond_life/

Slide 7: Getting started • 15 minutes a day

Slide 8: Getting started • Search for groups that interest you

Slide 9: Getting started • Search for places that interest you

Slide 10: Getting started • Explore profiles

Slide 11: Getting started • Explore profiles

Slide 12: Fundamental skills • How to: – Make a notecard – Take pictures – Bring images inworld – Use textures – Use voice – Dress professionally – Make & present slide shows

Slide 13: Places to learn basics • Academy for Second Learning • New Citizens • Rockliffe University • TeaZers

Slide 14: Groups to join to learn • Academy for Second Learning • New Citizens, Inc • NMC (New Media Consortium)

Slide 15: Calendars • http://fleeep.net/blog/sl-calendar/

Slide 16: Inworld educational communities • College Professors • Open Education in Second Life • Educator's Coffee • Open SLedware House • Picayune SLEDHeads • Educators Coop • * Real Life Education in • EduSharers Second Life • Edutwitterverse • Second Life Academics • Immersive Education • SLEdu Events • NMC Guests • Teacher Networking Center • NMC Teachers Buzz

Slide 17: Regular events • ISTE • Metanomics • Immersive Education

Slide 18: Outworld Communities & Resources Blogs • • Wikis • Email groups • Conferences, events, meetups

Slide 19: Blogs • SLED Blog: http://www.sl-educationblog.org/ • Folks: – Fleep Tuque: http://www.fleeep.net/ – Desideria Stockton: http://bethssecondlife.blogspot.com/ – Jokay Wollagong: http://jokay.com.au/ – KJ Hax: http://www.storyofmysecondlife.com/

Slide 20: Wikis • Second Life Education Wiki: http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php ?title=Second_Life_Education_Wiki • Second Life in Education: http://sleducation.wikispaces.com/

Slide 21: SIMTeach • 1 Getting Started: Frequently Asked Questions and Guidelines • 2 Programs for Educators • 3 Institutions and Organizations in SL • 4 Competitions • 5 Press, Blogs & Presentations • 6 Second Life Mailing Lists, Blogs and Forums • 7 In-World Groups

Slide 22: Email groups • SLED: https://lists.secondlife.com/cgi- bin/mailman/listinfo/educators • More: – http://simteach.com/wiki/index.php? title=Second_Life_Mailing_Lists#Educators _Mailing_List

Slide 23: SLBPE • Second Life Best Practices in Education – Wiki archive: http://slbestpractices2007.wikispaces.com/ – Video archive: http://www.slcn.tv/ second-life-best- practices-education- archives

Slide 24: UM - Wolverine Island • How to get access – Join: Wolverine-Community – Get an invitation from: • Memetic Projects • Perplexity Peccable • (drop a notecard in their inventory, or IM if they are online)

Slide 25: UM resources - Inworld groups • Wolverine-Community – Gives access and notices • SLUM Brown Bags – Gives notices, not access – Gathers groups for tours off of Wolverine • UM in Second Life – Gives notices, not access

Slide 26: UM resources - Outworld • Wiki: http://slum.wetp aint.com – Google calendar • Blog: http://mblog.lib. umich.edu/slum • Flickr: http://flickr.com/ groups/slum/

Slide 27: More • ISTE: http://www.iste.or g • NMC: http://www.nmc.or g • Future Forces Affecting Education: http://www.kwfdn. org/map/