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- 1. Second Life For Educators:A Beginners Guide A Beginners
Guide
- Chaz Maloney aka Charles Cosmato
2. Why the slides, cant we just get to it?
- Thisll be quick.... just want to prime the mental-pump with some ideas for you to chew on.
Thank-you simpsonizeme.com 3. What is Second Life?
- Described by the creators of the system as, An imaginary world built by the users
- The world of Second Life exists on a grid of world servers and is navigated by way of a special client.-Much in the same way that the World Wide Web exists as documents on a network of Web servers and is navigated by a browser
4. The Obligatory Apples and Oranges Learning ComparisonStudy Caveats
- Imaginary World Learning (IWL hereafter) is probably NOT the equivalent of classroom instruction.
- Learners probably DONT learn more from IWL than traditional classroom instruction.
- Learners probably DONT learn less from IWL than traditional classroom instruction.
- Learners probably DO learn something from IWL and it is probably somewhat the same and somewhat different than traditional classroom instruction.
5. One View ofIWL in a learning philosophy... 6. Classroom/DigitalLife/Virtual World 7. Pedaling becomes walking 8. Buttons Steer, Pedals fly 9. Okay, I want to do this...
- http://www.secondlife.com /get an account, install the client on your computer(hint: you can copy the entire SL directory from your computer to a flashkey and use SL on any computer w/o installing)
- Login with your new avatar credentials using your SL client
- Go through the tutorials on newbie island, all the learning is hands-on...virtually
10. More info!!
- Start with these two, everything else is connected:
- http://www.simteach.com/wiki/
- http://sl.nmc.org /
- Virtual fieldtrip!Open SL and a web browser, click the links on this page to visit SL sites: http://slurl.wikispaces.com/Newbie+Field+Trip
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