second life as a pedagogical tool
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This was our presentation for the Learning 2.0 Conference at Montclair State University. Teachers from across the disciplines and from K-20 attended in a Standing Room Only crowd.TRANSCRIPT
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Second Life
College of Humanities and Social Sciences @ Montclair State University
Virtual Environment as Pedagogical Tool
AJ KeltonAJ Brooks
Director of Teaching and Emerging Technology
Laura NicosiaLauraMaria Onomatopoeia
Assistant Prof English/Dir. Eng.Education
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What do you already know about Second Life?
Why Second Life?
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A Universe of Virtual Worlds
Platforms
Adult - 22Teen /Tween - 18
“Kids” - 15
55 virtual platforms80.8 million users
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What is Second Life?
Officially Launched in 2003 (beta in 1999)
“Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents.”
A flexible space for learning and exploration
An opportunity for people to interact in a way that conveys a sense of presence lacking in other media.
Generalized rather than contextual, applicable to almost any discipline, business, industry, etc...
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What is Second Life?Second life is NOT a game - there are no rules or a fixed goal-oriented purpose.
10-15K sign ups daily - nearly 14 million total
30 - 60K residents on at one time - avg 50K(2000 census puts Montclair and Little Falls at about 50K)
over $1 million spent daily (real US dollars)
Well over 300 educational institutions with thousands of meters of land dedicated to education
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The CHSS Pilot Project
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Recreate What Exists
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Recreate what exists, differently!xt
Recreate what exists, differently!
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Walk into a story
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Always “On” Content
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Gloria Naylor’s Willow Springs
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Traditional Spaces
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Create Something New
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Engage Your Students
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ENWR 105:18Introduction to College Writing I
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ENWR 105:18• The technology use was required
• Notification prior to the start of classes (MWB / MWH / MWO)
• Full support from the Department
• Open and Clear Communication
• Email prior to class starting
• Posting syllabus prior to class
• Expectations clearly outlined in syllabus
• Expectation of use
• Expectation of access
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ENWR 105:18
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Assignments• Explore NMC’s Orientation Island
• Group work
• Info Island field trip
• Research and share relevant SL places
• Alternate meeting place
• Library research (RL and SL)
• Friends, Groups, and Landmarks
• Final Project: Dorm
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What does it take to teach a technology rich class?
• Relevance
• Planning
• Flexibility
• Experimentation
• Research
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Using SL in a Literature Class
• ENGL 240.03 The Art of Fiction
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By Using SL in Literature Classes:
Comprehension soars
Learning communities are fostered
Collaboration is nurtured
Cognitive capital is distributed
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Students become immersed when inworld
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where the environment
is as persistent as I build it to be
And they enter a world...
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Each site is “always on” and “always full of content”
My learning sites are “always on” & “always full of content”
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We meet in “interesting” places
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Meeting in these places would be difficult or impossible in real life.
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Dante’s Inferno and Linden Hills
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Construct 3-D Sites
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Autonomous Learning
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Students visit the always available site
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They enter the learning space
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Explore and orient themselves
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Encounter my assigned tasks
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Open search engines and visit my pre-screened and pre-
selected urls. I control the environment.
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They receive tasks to
accomplish (whether I am with them or
not)
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Students write essays on note cards, deliver them to me via an “inworld email” system or deposit them in items.
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Creating note cards is as easy as opening a file in a word processing program
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Their note cards can be as long as they need to be.
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Yet, while SL is new and fun
• It is not an end, in and of itself
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Technology for learning’s sake--not as an end
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Business
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Collaboration
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Genome Island
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NOAA
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Spaceport Alpha and Delta
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The Second Louvre
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Renaissance Island
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The Lost Gardens of
Apollo
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San Francesco Assisi
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InfoIsland
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Princeton
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The Sistine Chapel Vassar
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Vassar Island
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Abbott’s Aerodrome
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Kelly Employment Services
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MUVEing Education ForwardAn Unconference for Anyone Interested in
Second Life as a Tool for Teaching and Learning
Monday, June 23rd, 2008University Hall - 7th Floor
8:00am to 3:00pmFree and open to all