1. Virtual Worlds: Second Life Dr. Laura Nicosia Assistant Professor English Department AJ Kelton Director CHSS Technology Services Unit College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Montclair State University

2. What do you already know about Second Life? Second Life? Why talk about Second Life?

25. A Universe of Virtual Worlds Second Life Active World There SL Teen Grid Whyville Toontown Sims Online Virtual Earth Home Metaverse Protosphere Muse Coke Studios Sora City Dreamville TowerChat Traveler Habbo Hotel The Manor Mokitown Cybertown Virtual Ibiza Voodoo Chat Playdo Worlds.com Moove The Palace

31. Meet Students in “Interesting” Places

33. Second Life permits the use of unconventional educational settings and hands-on experiences that would be difficult/impossible in Real Life. Such as…

34. Dante’s Inferno and Linden Hills

37. Exposure to the “Other”

38. But, how do we teach content and skill sets using Second Life

39. Second Life: Cybergogy and Cyberpraxis

41. If you build it, they will come

42. Construct 3-D Sites

43. Autonomous Learning

44. Students visit the always available site

45. They enter the learning space

46. Explore and orient themselves

47. Encounter your assigned tasks

54. Hold Meetings In-world

62. There are nagging questions…

69. The CHSS Pilot Project

70. Recreate What Exists

71. Walk into a story

72. Always “On” Content

74. Traditional Spaces

75. Create Something New

76. Engage Your Students

77. Challenges

78. Genome Island

79. The Second Louvre

80. NOAA

81. Business

82. Spaceport Alpha and Delta

83. Renaissance Island

84. San Francesco Assisi

85. InfoIsland

86. Princeton

87. The Sistine Chapel Vassar Vassar

89. Vassar Island

90. The Lost Gardens of Apollo

91. Abbott’s Aerodrome

94. ?