Teaching+Resouces

=General Resources=

NMC wiki http://sl.nmc.org/wiki/Getting_Started

NMC Quick Reference http://sl.nmc.org/wiki/Quick_Reference

Sign up for SLED https://lists.secondlife.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/educators

Search SLED archives http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=001010425210852223575%3Ajldmgpuier0

Orientation Island videos http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Video_Tutorials

ISTE Island [|http://www.slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island/90/80/30]


 * Metanomics Season Highlights**

http://files.remedylimited.com/metanomics_season_highlights.pdf

Metanomics has been at the center of our understanding of the serious uses of virtual worlds. While virtual worlds made significant strides in the latter part of 2009 towards broader use by schools and businesses, they were also part of a wider evolution of the nature of work driven by social media and other technologies, increased ease in collaborating globally, and macro trends in economics and governance. These trends will have profound consequences for the future of enterprise and our lives on-line.


 * National Portrait Gallery in Second Life**

@http://www.metaversejournal.com/2010/01/21/national-portrait-gallery-in-second-life/

There hasn’t been an enormous fanfare about the launch of the National Portrait Gallery’s doppelganger exhibition in Second Life, but there probably deserves to be. For it’s first foray into virtual worlds, the Gallery has created an impressive exhibition that beautifully showcases the power of digital artwork.

I asked the architect of the exhibition, Greg More (SL: Dynamo Zanetti) to explain each of the exhibits, which he kindly agreed to do. Greg is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture and Design at RMIT. Since 2002 he’s been primarily engaged in the use of 3D, realtime environments for architecture design visualisation. The RMIT’s island in SL, for RMIT architecture and interior design students, came into existence in early 2007. Greg also happens to be the driving force behind OOM Creative, a local virtual worlds design consultancy.

http://vital.cs.ohiou.edu/ http://www.ouwb.ohiou.edu/
 * Ohio University Second Life development**

Vassar SL Tutorials http://adminstaff.vassar.edu/sttaylor/SL-Tutorials/


 * Lessons in Second Life**, Mondays, 1:00pm – 2:30pm PST, at the Black Library at: [|http://slurl.com/secondlife/hyperborea/92/30/26/]. Join us for Lessons in Second Life, an open table forum centering on what can be learned in sl in both formal and informal settings. The forum is open to faculty, students, and interested parties of all kinds. We meet at the _blacklibrary hyperborea 91, 30, 26 im buridan simon for more information. Come share your ideas for learning in Second Life.


 * ISTE Island Educator Social**, Every Thursday at 6 PM SLT (that's US pacific time), we host a social event for educators to meet and network. At ISTE Island: http://www.slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island/90/80/30


 * SL Education Roundtable**, Every Tuesday, 2:30pm – 3:30pm SLT/PST, at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Montclair%20State%20CHSS/199/229/2 join on the CHSS Island, for an SL Education Roundtable. We'll meet each week and talk about a variety of subjects. Some weeks we may have a guest speaker and/or focus on one topic and other weeks we may just talk about what folks feel like chatting about. If you want to get some background on the Student Center Project, or even contribute before attending (or if you can't make it), you can find a blog about the effort posted here - http://sorry-afk.blogspot.com/2008/01/sl-student-center.html




 * NMC SL Calendar of Events** at http://sl.nmc.org/wiki/SLED_Calender. This calendar of Education oriented Second Life events is maintained in Google by Bruce Sommerville, who tirelessly posts activities shared via the Second Life Educators Listserv (SLED).

Texas Woman's [|www.twu.edu]

http://www.sluniverse.com/pics/ProfilePage.aspx?Name=Knoh+Oh http://slhealthy.wetpaint.com/wiki/slhealthy/page/SL+Healthy+File+Cabinet http://healthcybermap.org/MNKB_SecondLife_Medical-HealthEducation.pdf
 * Health Related Site**

Director of Instruction Technology, David Antonacci, at the Kansas U Med School - They have created an occupational therapy sim in Second Life where students go to a house and make changes to the house, such as add hand rail to the bathroom, to meet disability needs. They also have the nursing anesthesia sim too that they presented this year: See: http://www.educause.edu/E08/Program/14627?PRODUCT_CODE=E08/SESS052.

Medical: PalomarWest Hospital, which demos future medical equipment ( http://slurl.com/secondlife/PalomarWest%20Hospital/38/125/34 )

Medical: Nursing Education Simulation (NESIM), you can use instructor and student HUDs to treat a patient ( http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cousins%20Pau/7/8/23 )

Top 10 Virtual Medical Sites in Second Life [|http://scienceroll.com/2007/06/17/top-10-virtual-medical-sites-in-second-lif] e/


 * Foreign Language**

http://www.mtsu.edu/~itconf/index.html http://www.omniglot.com/language/articles/secondlife.php

English Village SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/English%20Village/131/162/126/? x=500&y=500&img=http%3A//eslteacherlink.com/ev.jpg&title=English%20Village&

http://www.slideshare.net/sreljic/aect2007sreljic for in-world schools and culturally-relevant cityspaces.


 * Science**

River City: A Multi-User Virtual Environment for Learning Science Inquiry http://slurl.com/secondlife/ECU%20III/103/39/27

Genome Island -- These presenters have designed and used biology-based activities and curriculum from the virtual world Second Life in their courses. Important in evaluating the usefulness of this new educational tool is determining student perceptions of learning virtual environments. Participants will hear an overview of education in Second Life, along with the students' perceptions of this learning experience.

http://www.uwex.edu/disted/conference/Resource_library/search_detail.cfm?presid=13442 http://www.uwex.edu/disted/conference/Resource_library/proceedings/08_13442.pdf

Clowey Greenwood from Northern Michigan University created BIOME ( http://slurl.com/secondlife/BIOME/128/130/28 ) w/ Siiaas Saarinen as the lead builder. It is just adjacent to Genome and BIOME II (under development). BIOME is one of my fav bio sims.

Here are the rest: http://delicious.com/cbaker17/SLurl+science%20

Troy McLuhan keeps a list of science related places at the SL Science Center: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Infotainment%20Island/35/96/31

I suggest visiting (these are island names you can search for on the map): International Spaceflight Museum: Spaceport Alpha and Bravo NOAA: Meteora and Oceana JPL: Explorer Island NASA: NASA CoLab Exploratorium: Exploratorium (they still have all their eclipse stuff out!) Genome Island Elon University

We'll have Astronomy 2009 (official International Year of Astronomy 2009) island ready by January 7, 2009 for grand opening.

Scientific/biological: Human testis ( http://slurl.com/secondlife/OSU%20Medicine/21/51/463 ), to show how learners can take a tour through a 3D object

Scientific/biological: eukaryotic cell on Genome Island, to show how 3D and increased scale can help learning

Scientific: NOAA Island http://slurl.com/secondlife/Meteora/177/161/28, to show weather data displayed in 3D

The International Spaceflight Museum: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Spaceport%20Alpha/48/83/24

The Abyss Museum of Ocean Science: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Gun/55/42/82

SploLand (by folks from The Exploratorium): http://slurl.com/secondlife/SploLand/182/75/25

http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Resources_for_teaching_Life_Sciences


 * Education**

Top 20 Educational Locations in Second Life [|http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Top_20_Educational_Locations_in] _Second_Life


 * Business**

Workplace: ANWR oil rig ( http://slurl.com/secondlife/ANWR/102/168/41 ), to show how real-life a SL work setting can look

Workplace: IBM Green Data Center ( http://slurl.com/secondlife/IBM%20Business%20Center2/196/37/32 ), also to show how real-life a SL work setting can look


 * From Linden SL Faire**

Linden Lab's 2009 Education Faire opened on Sunday with over 45 booths related to education, support tools and organizations, and more. It is open all week!

Stop by to check out all the great booths, and get more info about the schedule of events on the web at:

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Education_Support_Faire

I found many great resources there and met with different folks, including (to name a few I visited this morning ):

Discovery Network In SL http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/secondlife

Rockcliffe University [|http://www.urockcliffe.com] has education resources and a journal of virtual sciences

Montclair State http://slurl.com/secondlife/Montclair%20State%20CHSSSouth/125/154/22 Has numerous literature and english projects (including an Edgar Allan Poe exhibit, Quidditch Stadium, and Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” development)

Sigma-Aldrich http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/united-states.html http://slurl.com/secondlife/Aldrich%20Chemistry/19/158/23 They are looking for chemistry, materials science and biotech to post papers or get involved on their sims

Second Life Shakespeare Company http://twelfthnight.slshakespeare.com/blog/

For K-12 teachers, Global Kids' Digital Media Initiative http://www.holymeatballs.org/second_life/

Virtual Ability http://virtualability.org/default.aspx

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 * Tech virtual museum workshop

[|**http://www.tleinsl.com/**]
 * TLE - Museum and Zoos in SL**

(127, 200, 29)**
 * ESL-Learn English - Languagelab, Language Lab

Hi!! I am Ami Champion (some may known me as MarieElize or ME!!) I work at Languagelab as the Sr. Mgr of In-World Operations. Go ahead ask me but grab a drink and snack U R in for a ear full. Being at Languagelab I get to help students from around the world who love experienceing a new, communicative, & fun way to learn English & Spanish here in SL. I am also honored to have the BEST STAFF IN SECOND LIFE OR ANY LIFE!! You Guys Rock!!!!

See link below and a few more links suggested by Rich Berg:

Access Wisconsin (Developed by UW-Learning Innovations, ICS, and Wisconsin Public Television) [|http://slurl.com/secondlife/Access Wisconsin/148/119/24] Science Friday [|http://slurl.com/secondlife/Science Friday/219/192/28] Genome Island [] New Media Consortium (NMC) Conference Center [|http://slurl.com/secondlife/NMC Conference Center/50/206/21] Tsunami Demonstration [] NOAA Virtual Island [] Virtual Hallucinations (Please note that this place actually lets students know what it is like to have visual and auditory hallucinations. It can be VERY unsettling to some people) [] Nutrition Game [|http://slurl.com/secondlife/Ohio University/191/178/27] International Spaceflight Museum [|http://slurl.com/secondlife/Spaceport Alpha/47/77/24] Camp Darfur [|http://slurl.com/secondlife/Better World/175/244/21]

-- Simone C.O. Conceição, Ph.D.