1 46
100%
Actual Size
Fit Width
Fit Height
Fit Page
Automatic
Discovering your Second Life Kathryn Greenhill, March 2008 Kathryn Greenhill [email protected]
Second Life Workshop background
Embed Size (px)
344 x 292
429 x 357
514 x 422
599 x 487
DESCRIPTION
Covers: "What is Second Life?", "Universities in Second Life", "Murdoch University Island". Used in Workshops at Murdoch University Library March - May 2008
Citation preview
1. Discovering your Second Life Kathryn Greenhill, March 2008
Kathryn Greenhill [email protected]
2. Slides at: http://murdochsecondlife.pbwiki.com Kathryn
Greenhill [email protected]
3.
Murdoch University Island Treasure Hunt
Visit an Educational Site
Kathryn Greenhill [email protected]
4. Background Kathryn Greenhill [email protected]
5.
What are Universities doing there ?
Murdoch University Island
Kathryn Greenhill [email protected]
6. What is Second Life? Kathryn Greenhill
[email protected]
7. Kathryn Greenhill [email protected]
8. Kathryn Greenhill [email protected]
9. Avatars Islands Buildings Objects Kathryn Greenhill
[email protected]
10. Limitations Kathryn Greenhill
[email protected]
11. OVERHYPED Second Life is Kathryn Greenhill
[email protected]
12.
80 Percent of Active Internet Users Will Have A ``Second Life''
in the Virtual World by the End of 2011 - Gartner
Educause/NMC Horizon Report 2007
But Kathryn Greenhill [email protected]
13. Growth is levelling off Although Kathryn Greenhill
[email protected]
14. Source: Linden Labs. Second Life economy posts solid growth
in Q4:
http://blog.secondlife.com/2008/01/17/second-life-economy-posts-solid-growth-in-q4/
Kathryn Greenhill [email protected]
15. Where our users are NOT Kathryn Greenhill
[email protected]
16.
Client software not a web browser
Access Kathryn Greenhill [email protected]
17. Its evolving Remember this . Kathryn Greenhill
[email protected]
18. Free Full of educators A prototype Has critical mass
Available right now It is Kathryn Greenhill
[email protected]
19. Worth investigating Can only be understood by doing Kathryn
Greenhill [email protected]
20. Universities Kathryn Greenhill
[email protected]
21. Australian Universities
Kathryn Greenhill [email protected]
22. What are they doing?
Replicating physical layout
Kathryn Greenhill [email protected]
23. Ohio University in Second Life http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v =aFuNFRie8wA Kathryn Greenhill
[email protected]
24. Murdoch University Kathryn Greenhill
[email protected]
25. Library rented a plot of land in Feb 2007 and ran classes
May July 2007 Kathryn Greenhill [email protected]
26. Offer SL PC lab and training sessions Kathryn Greenhill
[email protected]
27. Second Life Interest Group Kathryn Greenhill
[email protected]
28. Murdoch University Island
Kathryn Greenhill [email protected]
29. Delivered 28 Sept 2007 Kathryn Greenhill
[email protected]
30.
Project work for IT students
Experimentation by Uni community
Learning Best Practice to manage
Kathryn Greenhill [email protected]
31. Semester 2 2007 ICT333 / TLC277 6 students Job interview
simulation Kathryn Greenhill [email protected]
32. Semester 1 2008 6 ICT333 students working with Allan Barton
from Chemistry on a murder role play environment Kathryn Greenhill
[email protected]
33. Semester 1 2008 ICT Student doing ISC redesigning island
layout. Kathryn Greenhill [email protected]
34. THE WORKSHOP DISCLAIMER Kathryn Greenhill
[email protected]
35. What are we not doing ? Kathryn Greenhill
[email protected]
36. Like the internet in general, in Second Life educational
sites sit alongside porn, and people out to make a fast buck. We're
not hanging out there. It's not work. Don't do it here. Kathryn
Greenhill [email protected]
37. We're not advising you to spend work time in Second Life
doing non-work things. It's not work. Don't do it here. . Kathryn
Greenhill [email protected]
38. Were not advising you to spend work time in Second Life
doing work things to the exclusion of other work. Kathryn Greenhill
[email protected]
39. So - what can we do? Kathryn Greenhill
[email protected]
40. Second Life is a chance to learn new skills and a different
literacy Kathryn Greenhill [email protected]
41. These things are OK . Kathryn Greenhill
[email protected]
42. Learning how to get around walk, fly, teleport, swim, dance
Kathryn Greenhill [email protected]
43. Learning to do things with objects take, give, buy, sell,
create, touch, move, edit Kathryn Greenhill
[email protected]
44. Interacting with other people IMing, chatting, viewing
profiles, searching, joining groups Kathryn Greenhill
[email protected]
45. Doing things with your avatar changing appearance, editing,
animating Kathryn Greenhill [email protected]
46. Exploring Second Life attending events, exploring locations
Kathryn Greenhill [email protected]
LOAD MORE