Second Life - next steps, 22nd April 2010

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Once those first tentative steps into Second Life have been taken, the question is often asked, what now? Where can I go to develop my own space? How do I run a class in a virtual world? This session will give you some pointers and the opportunity to go in world and carry out some activities with help on hand.

Contents

Section 1: SL skills

  • An instant classroom
  • SL resources for teaching
  • Sites to use as resources
  • Buying land

Section 2: Pedagogic skills

  • Look at Blooms Taxonomy

Blooms Taxonomy information on the web:

http://www.techlearning.com/article/8670

http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Bloom%27s+-+Introduction

  • Gardners Multiple Intelligences – Kev’s Webquest

http://wiki.rscwmsystems.org.uk/images/7/7c/Second-life-Webquest.pdf

  • Gilly Salmon, “SL Moderating” from the SL Training Guide

http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/beyond-distance-research-alliance/projects/moose_old/mooseblog/moderatormaster.pdf

  • Design of Learning Spaces in 3D Virtual Environments (DELVE)

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning/ltig/delve.aspx#downloads

  • 50 Tips and Tricks to Create a Learning Space in Second Life

http://www.collegedegrees.com/blog/2008/05/27/50-tips-and-tricks-to-create-a-learning-space-in-second-life/

  • 16 Ways To Use Second Life In Your Classroom: Pedagogical Approaches And Virtual Assignments. Michele Ryan

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/postgrad/ryanm2/SLEDcc08_ryan_paper.pdf

  • The Collection of Educational Tools for Second Life

http://muvenation.org/blog/2010/03/02/the-collection-of-educational-tools-for-second-life/#more-240

  • Learning From Online Worlds; Teaching In Second Life

http://learningfromsocialworlds.wordpress.com/

  • Learning to Teach in Second Life

http://www.eden-online.org/contents/conferences/OCRCs/Porto/AM_LM.pdf

  • Laying the groundwork for socialisation and knowledge construction within 3D virtual worlds

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09687760802526699

Section 3: Session Planning

Activities:

Team up and draw up a plan for a session in SL

Start to develop on RSC WM Island

Mail Lists

Additional information and useful resources

Building

Ball State is NOW offering an instructor-directed 8 hour intense crash course entitled, "Building 101: Future Builders of Second Life," that covers aspects of Beginner/Intermediate building in SL, from prim creation to animations. The first course will begin May 5 and run through May 26, 2010. You will need to be on Second Life Wednesdays from 4-6p.m. Second Life Time (PST). Check out: http://cms.bsu.edu/About/AdministrativeOffices/BBC/Training/ProfDev/BuildBlocks101.aspx

To keep up to date with SLOODLE developments, please join the SLOODLE Moodle: http://www.sloodle.org/moodle/

Introductory classes run inside Second Life every Tuesday at 1.30pm U.S. Pacific Time. The SLURL for the SLOODLE classes is: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sloodle/108/30/23

You can also join the Sloodle group in Second Life: Sloodlers

Fire Centaur has many video clips to help with your sloodling: http://www.youtube.com/user/fire2006

Other groups you may like to join in Second Life: Real Life Education in Second Life - a group for real life educators and academics using SL for real life eudcation and research.

Also, on the second Tuesday of every month, UK Educators meet in world for open discussions on a variety of topics. Notification of these events are sent through the JISC mail list.

Firewall Configuration How to configure your corporate firewall to access Second Life

Where to get land in SL

Places where educators may be able to get cheap or free land )please let me know if this is incorrect:

  • formerly ‘Education UK Island’ now owned by Leeds University
  • Campus:Second_Life
  • EduNation – Free Space (Gavin Dudeney, “Consultants-E”)
  • Nature Publishing Group, Elucian Omega island IM Secondlou Skytower
  • Not necessarily free or cheap: - NMC Virtual World (for full sim = $5000 £3,097.12 per annum)

See our wiki page about the JISC RSC WM Island.

  • Try Pathfinder Islands in SL. Contact Adrian Pathfinder

Making Machinima

There are lots of resources on the web to help you with Machinima, but here is one guide recommended by colleagues in RSC Northern: Making Machinima in Second Life

Web on a Prim

Very easy to follow video tutorial by Torley Linden, showing you how to do it: Shared Media - Viewer 2 Beta Transition Tutorial

Second Life Wiki

Masses of resources, help, tips, video tutorials etc

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Main_Page

Presenter's Contact Details

Ladyjane Plympton

Jane Edwards

Email: Jane Edwards: p.jane.edwards@rsc-wm.ac.uk

Second Life avatar: Ladyjane Plympton

Twitter: lady_jane

Tel: 01902 518983

Mob: 07976 828374

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