second life in education
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SECOND LIFE IN EDUCATION. Second Life in Education. Rodan Rodenberger aka Rhonda Berger CT&D. Jellie Lane aka Janelle Fernandez Virtual College. What is Second Life?. Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely created by its Residents. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
SECOND LIFEIN EDUCATION
Rodan Rodenbergeraka
Rhonda BergerCT&D
Jellie Laneaka
Janelle FernandezVirtual College
Second Life in Education
Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely created by its Residents.
Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by millions of residents from around the globe.
What is Second Life?
Social Interaction & Networking Businesses (Both in SL and real life) Government – NASA, NOAA Entrepreneurial endeavors Creative Arts (live music, etc.) Education – List of schools Prototyping Role-playing Buy & Sell objects like real life
How is it used?
Active Learning:◦ An ideal platform for engaging students in creating their
own learning activities, experiences and environments, and not just be passive consumers of learning.
3D virtual worlds can provide:◦ Opportunities for rich sensory immersive experiences.◦ Authentic contexts and activities for experiential learning,
simulation and role-play.
Second Life in Education
Princeton University
Central Piedmont College
Sample Institutions
Educational Use Video Ohio State University YouTube
Let’s take a tour….
English students at the University of Texas-Austin each picked a role model, created an avatar and assumed the role of the avatar for the activity. Among avatars: Malcolm X, Oprah, Mother Teresa, Bill Gates and Teddy Roosevelt. The students conducted conversations in the personae of their avatars.
English Class
Language/Cultural Learning The 3D virtual world "Second Life" is full of
places to practice a foreign language - you can speak with real people all over the world.
On the Avatar Languages web. You can click on a map to go directly to a country.
• Thousands of residents are making part or all of their real life income from their Second Life Businesses.– Linden Dollars
• Existing in-world companies also have Second Life presence– Cisco– IBM– MTV– Starwood Hotels– Sun Microsystems
• Holds press conferences in their “Sun Pavilion”
Business
NESIMOR is a 3-D simulator that uses the online virtual of Second Life to practice diagnosing and treating patients in a simulated emergency department environment. It is currently being used to instruct nursing students at Tacoma Community College.
Nursing Field Trip
Nursing/Medicine
NOAA NASA Genome Project Video: Science Learning Opportunities History of the Earth and Life on Earth: Students in Chris Impey’s astrobiology course at the
University of Arizona contributed to his History of the Earth and Life on Earth exhibit.
Science
UC Davies – Schizophrenia Koolaid people - Creating Community/Explo
ring diversity Utopian Society Body Image Ethnic/Gender Studies
Psychology/Sociology
3D Modeling Galleries Contests The Louvre
ART & Humanities
SL Art Gallery List
Social Gatherings Parties Dance Clubs
Socialization
Virtual Concerts SL Users have the best seats in the house to these concerts
Emergency Preparedness Companies are combining the use of Second
Life and the (Nintendo) WiiMote to train employees on things such as:◦ Inspecting a house for moisture and heat sources◦ Mixing chemicals and loading them onto a truck◦ Power Plant training◦ Driving simulations
Using products like Google Maps and Google Earth, simulation can represent actual streets on-screen, so that not every trainee in America has to drive down the "same mythical Maple Street”.
Training modules include those intersections and locations where there is a history of accidents.
Training
SL provides online facilities for entire conferences to take place via the web
Conferences sometimes held on SL and simultaneously in a live facility
Conferences
Second Life Resource Site
http://sites.google.com/a/mymdc.net/mdcsl
Foundation Grant Class Meeting Rooms Training Demonstration
Miami Dade College Island
Questions
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