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