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Second Life @ MSU
AJ Kelton / AJ BrooksDIRECTOR OF TEACHING AND EMERGING
TECHNOLOGYCOLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
@ MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY
What do you already know about Second
Life?
Why Second Life?
A Universe of Virtual Worlds
Platforms
Adult - 22Teen /Tween - 18
“Kids” - 15
55 virtual platforms80.8 million users
What is Second Life?
Officially Launched in 2003 (beta in 1999)
“Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents.”
A flexible space for learning and exploration
An opportunity for people to interact in a way that conveys a sense of presence lacking in other media.
Generalized rather than contextual, applicable to almost any discipline, business, industry, etc...
What is Second Life?Second life is NOT a game - there are no rules or a fixed goal-oriented purpose.
10-15K sign ups daily - over 13 million total
30 - 60K residents on at one time - avg 50K(2000 census puts Montclair and Little Falls at about 50K)
over $1 million spent daily (real US dollars)
Well over 300 educational institutions with thousands of meters of land dedicated to education
The CHSS Pilot Project
Recreate What Exists
Recreate what exists, differently!
Walk into a story
Always “On” Content
Traditional Spaces
Engage Your Students
Business
Collaboration
Genome Island
NOAA
Spaceport Alpha and Delta
Abbott’s Aerodrome
The Second Louvre
Renaissance Island
DANTE’S INFERNO
The Lost Gardens of
Apollo
San Francesco Assisi
Princeton
The Sistine Chapel Vassar
Vassar Island
InfoIsland
Kelly Employment Services
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Resources•MUVEing Education Forward: An Unconference for
Anyone Interested in Second Life as a Tool for Teaching and LearningMonday, June 23rd, 2008 @ Montclair StateFree and open to all http://capricorn.montclair.edu/mediawiki/index.php/MUVEing_Education_Forward
•EDUCAUSE Virtual Worlds Constituent Grouphttp://www.educause.edu/groups/vw
•This slide presentationhttp://www.slideshare.net/sorry.afk/080414-tag/
•My Contact Information (email, blogs, presentations, etc...)http://www.sorry-afk.com
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