Introduction to Second Life, 9th July 2008
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Presenter's Contact Details
Jane Edwards
Email: Jane Edwards: p.jane.edwards@wlv.ac.uk
Second Life avatar: Ladyjane Plympton
Tel: 01902 518983
Mob: 07976 828374
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Some useful resources
"May 2008 snapshot of UK HE and FE developments in SL"
As part of their range of Second Life activities, the Eduserv Foundation hired John Kirriemuir to do a series of "snapshot" reports, looking at the take-up of SL within the UK Higher and Further Education sector. The update of the first report, containing some new examples of how and where Second Life is being used in UK Higher and Further Education, can be downloaded from the Eduserv Foundation website:
John Kirriemuir has also taken snapshots of education sites in Second Life and put them onto Flickr: Second Life Snapshots
"Learning to Teach in Second Life"
Diane Carr, April 2008. London Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education, University of London
This is a draft report and might be edited. Our thanks to our students for taking part, to Caroline Pelletier and our guest presenters Britta Pollmuller and Marion Walton, and our hosts in Second Life.
Learning to Teach in Second Life
"The who, where, when and how of Second Life as a teaching tool in 2006"
Compiled by Jeremy W. Kemp, MEd, MSJ, December 29, 2006. simteach.com
http://simteach.com/simteach12_06.pdf
"101 Uses for Second Life in the College Classroom"
The 1.0 version of this document was originally presented as part of the Second Life Symposium at the Games, Learning, and Society Conference [1], June 23-24, 2005 in Madison, WI. The featured speakers for this symposium were Cory Ondrejka and James Cook with [2]. http://facstaff.elon.edu/mconklin/pubs/glshandout.pdf
Links
SLoodle - the integration of Second Life and Moodle (a virtual learning environment) SLoodle.org
Community
Mail lists discussing the use of Virtual Worlds in education:
For the education community in the UK
Join Second Life JISC Mail List: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/VIRTUALWORLDS
The SLEd list (US based) - "for educators interested in or currently using Second Life, and we will be using it to send out information we feel is of interest to educators and academics. This list is also an opportunity for all of you to communicate with each other, to find new colleagues and to share your experiences using Second Life for education. Please feel free to send email to the list if you'd like to connect with other people"
The SLEd list: https://lists.secondlife.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/educators
Second Life Wikis
SaLamander: a folksonomy of practical and theoretical applications, builds and designs in Multi-User Virtual Environments for the purposes of teaching and learning. The Salamander Project is a collaborative project coordinated by researchers and educator at The Center for Advanced Technology in Education at the University of Oregon. This project is open to K-12, higher education, not-for-profit and corporate organizations - as well as individuals - interested in creating a resource that frames and focuses the need for a Community of Practice surrounding the use of Learning Objects in the Second Life MUVE. http://www.eduisland.net/salamanderwiki/index.php?title=Main_Page#The_SaLamander_3D_Learning_Materials_Typology
Simteach:
http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Second_Life_Education_Wiki
