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