SECOND LIFEIN EDUCATION

Rodan Rodenbergeraka

Rhonda BergerCT&D

Jellie Laneaka

Janelle FernandezVirtual College

Second Life in Education

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.

What is Second Life?

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

How is it used?

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.

Second Life in Education

Princeton University

Central Piedmont College

Sample Institutions

Educational Use Video Ohio State University YouTube

Let’s take a tour….

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.

English Class

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.

• 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”

Business

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

Nursing/Medicine

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.

Science

UC Davies – Schizophrenia Koolaid people - Creating Community/Explo

ring diversity Utopian Society Body Image Ethnic/Gender Studies

Psychology/Sociology

3D Modeling Galleries Contests The Louvre

ART & Humanities

SL Art Gallery List

Social Gatherings Parties Dance Clubs

Socialization

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

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.

Training

SL provides online facilities for entire conferences to take place via the web

Conferences sometimes held on SL and simultaneously in a live facility

Conferences

Second Life Resource Site

http://sites.google.com/a/mymdc.net/mdcsl

Foundation Grant Class Meeting Rooms Training Demonstration

Miami Dade College Island

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