Second Life session of the CHSS Summer Hybrid and Online Workshop. Special thanks to Laura Nicosia for her slides on pedagogy.

1. Second Life AJ Kelton / AJ Brooks Blending the real and virtual worlds for a hybrid learning experience

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

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

9. Collaboration

10. InfoIsland

11. Princeton

12. The Sistine Chapel Vassar

14. Vassar Island

15. Genome Island

16. NOAA

17. The CHSS Pilot Project

18. Recreate What Exists

20. Walk into a story

21. Always “On” Content

23. Traditional Spaces

24. Engage Your Students

25. ENWR 105:18 Introduction to College Writing I

27. ENWR 105:18

44. Each site is “always on” and “always full of content”

45. Sites may appear vacant, but may be filled with content

46. Meet Students in “Interesting” Places

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

48. Dante’s Inferno and Linden Hills

52. Autonomous Learning

53. Students visit the always available site

54. They enter the learning space

55. Explore and orient themselves

56. Encounter your assigned tasks

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

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

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

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

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

64. Business

65. Spaceport Alpha and Delta

66. Abbott’s Aerodrome

67. Renaissance Island

68. The Second Louvre

69. The Lost Gardens of Apollo

70. San Francesco Assisi

73. Kelly Employment Services

74. Challenges

76. ?

77. MUVEing Education Forward For Anyone Interested in Second Life as a Tool for Teaching and Learning Monday, June 23rd, 2008 University Hall - 7th Floor 10:00am to 3:00pm Free and open to all http://capricorn.montclair.edu/mediawiki/index.php/MUVEing_Education_Forward MUVE is a Multi-User Virtual Environment MUVE is a Multi-User Virtual Environment