This document discusses using the virtual world Second Life as a teaching tool. It provides examples of how several colleges and universities are using Second Life for classes, including English composition, political science, hotel management, and more. Specific uses mentioned include having students explore virtual islands to complete assignments, conduct research both in real life and Second Life, build virtual dorms, and replace some face-to-face class meetings with virtual meetings in Second Life. The document also provides resources for faculty on how to get started using Second Life and support available from the college.

2. What is learning? What tools do we use for learning? And why?

3. Then Now Teachers Students

4. Laptop Clicker Notes Web IM Cell Phone iPod

9. Platforms Adult - 22 Teen /Tween - 18 “ Kids” - 15 55 virtual platforms 80.8 million users A Universe of Virtual Worlds

11. Lego Universe (8-9), Playstation Home (17-18), Smallworlds (18-19), Empire of Sports (20-21) Football Superstars (21-22), Twinity (23-24), HiPiHi (30-31) Habbo 90m 14-15 2003 or before Neopets 45m under 10 2003 or before Club Penguin 15m 10-11 2005 Gaia 12m 15 2003 or before Second Life 12m 30-31 2003 or before Whyville 3m 11-12 2005 There 1.5m 20-21 2005 Activeworlds 1m 25-26 2003 or before IMVU 1m 16-17 2004 Webkinz 7-8 2005 Teen Second Life 15-16 2003 or before Kaneva 22-23 2006 VSide 18-19 2007 VirtualMTV 20 2006

12. SHOW ME THE MONEY “ We don't see any slowing in the market adoption of virtual worlds technologies and expect investment in the space to continue. In fact the market is growing significantly, with the rate of adoption of virtual worlds increasing as the technology matures and has more to offer both consumers and enterprise customers.” Christopher Sherman, Executive Director of Virtual Worlds Management

13. AJ Kelton / AJ Brooks What is it? Second Life

20. Walk into a story

21. Always “On” Content

22. Collaboration

23. ENWR 105:18 Introduction to College Writing I

32. They can open search engines and visit my pre-selected urls. I control the environment.

33. They receive tasks to accomplish (whether I am with them or not)

34. Students write essays on Notecards and deliver them to me via an “inworld email” system or deposit them in items.

35. Creating Notecards is as easy as opening a file.

36. Their Notecards can be as long as they need to be.

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44. InfoIsland

45. The Sistine Chapel Vassar

47. Text http://sl.nmc.org/create.php

51. For discipline-specific uses of SL in the class: “ 101 Uses for Second Life in the College Classroom” Dr. Megan S. Conklin—Elon University http://facstaff.elon.edu/mconklin/pubs/glshandout.pdf