Engaging Learning in Second Life

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1. Slide 1: Pauline Randall (aka Liz Ferlinghetti) virtual-e Ltd Virtual world benefits through real world solutions
2. Slide 4:  What are you trying to achieve?  Students won’t be entranced by some PowerPoint slides in Second Life  Could this teaching be done more effectively with another tool – a web page, a VLE etc?
3. Slide 5:  Ashridge Business School - currently creating the building then looking at different ways of combining with current e-learning for distance students  JISC RSCs in Scotland - developing induction workshops for Second Life which include interactive activities
4. Slide 6:  Clear purpose to being there  Make it interesting and challenging  Have definite outcomes
5. Slide 7:  Take a case study  Perhaps a business plan exercise  Lots of information on a piece of paper  Write up your views on how viable this business is and your proposals for moving it forward
6. Slide 8:  Create the scenario in Second Life  Embed the information into objects  Let the students go and look for the information, think about it and then write up their report
7. Slide 9:  Using a laboratory  Health and safety  Hygiene in a kitchen  Crime scene analysis
8. Slide 10:  Give your students a proper induction into Second Life  Don’t make activities too simple  Ask your students for some help – building, scripting, ideas  Be creative, be innovative with Second Life, make it work for you
9. Slide 11: Pauline Randall (Liz Ferlinghetti in Second Life) Second Life Solution Provider www.virtual-e.co.uk Pauline.randall@virtual-e.co.uk virtual-e Island in Second Life http://slurl.com/secondlife/virtual%20e/130/127/24 Virtual world benefits through real world solutions
10. Slide 12: Places to visit in Second Life and some useful websites
11. Slide 13:  Ashridge Business School  CyMal Museums & Libraries  Imperial College London, Faculty of Medicine  Square One Market Research, Florida  University of Hawaii
12. Slide 14:  Abyss Museum of Ocean Science - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Gun/55/42/82  Autodesk Island – Engineering Design - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Autodesk/220/117/22  Bowling Green State University - http://slurl.com/secondlife/BGSU%20Creation/255/255/33  Camp Darfur - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Better%20World/175/247/21  Chinese School - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Chinese%20School/130/196/22  Dresden Art Gallery - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Dresden%20Gallery/168/128/26  Edinburgh University - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Edinburgh%20University/128/128/28  Genome Island - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Genome/135/92/29  Leeds College of Art & Design - http://slurl.com/secondlife/The%20Collective/44/69/34  Streets of Baghdad - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Better%20World/182/192/23
13. Slide 15:  Educause Review - http://connect.educause.edu/er?time=1222711572  Institutions & Organisations in SL - http://simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Institutions_and_Organizations_in_SL  Second Life – www.secondlife.com  Second Life Stats - http://secondlife.com/whatis/economy_stats.php  SLED (Second Life Educators) List - https://lists.secondlife.com/cgi- bin/mailman/listinfo/educators  SLED Blog - http://www.sl-educationblog.org/  Virtual Worlds Review - http://www.virtualworldsreview.com/info/categories.shtml