abs june 2009
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ABS Deans Couse - June 2009TRANSCRIPT
ABS DEANS PROGRAMME
Pauline Randallvirtual-e ltd
second life
“Second Life is a free 3D virtual world where users can socialize, connect and create using voice and text chat”
your experience so far?
What have you heard? What have you seen? What have you thought?
pre-course preparation
Visiting second life Reading the articles
Have these changed your views? More favourable? Less favourable?
How can you use this new technology in teaching and learning?
Gartner’s hype cycle
http://www.gartner.com/pages/story.php.id.8795.s.8.jsp
what is business doing in Second Life?
Collaboration
Concept testing
Conferences
Demonstrations
Meeting
Product testing
Recruitment
Training
IBM conference
One fifth of the cost and no jet lag
ROI $320,000
what about education?
“...there is evidence that nearly every UK university is using Second Life to some extent for development or teaching work. ”
virtual world use in HE/FE Spring 2009
http://virtualworldwatch.net/snapshots/virtual-world-use-in-hefe-jan-09/
Imperial College, London
Respiratory diagnoses
Open University
http://secondlifegrid.net.s3.amazonaws.com/docs/SecondLife_Case_OpenU.pdf
Additional Resources
Web resourcesBusiness Communicators of Second Life - http://freshtakes.typepad.com/sl_communicators/ Companies in Second Life - http://slbusinesscommunicators.pbwiki.com/Companies+in+Second+Life 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 JISC gaming report - http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/elearninginnovation/gamingreport_v3.pdf Second Life – www.secondlife.com Second Life Security - https://support.secondlife.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=4417&task=knowledge&questionID=5566 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/ Second Life – Worling Inworld - https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/workinginworldTimes – McKinsey Interview - http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3803056.ece Virtual World Watch – Snapshots http://virtualworldwatch.net/snapshots/ Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_world
Other optionsVirtual Worlds Review - http://www.virtualworldsreview.com/info/categories.shtml
Second Life Locations
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 Eduserv Island - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Eduserv%20Island/104/40/29 Genome Island - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Genome/135/92/29 Honawan – Planetarium - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Honawan/96/122/421 Illinois State – Geography-Geology - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Geo%20Island/89/73/504Ivory Tower Library of Primitives - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Natoma/213/164/28 Leeds College of Art & Design - http://slurl.com/secondlife/The%20Collective/44/69/34 Monash University - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Monash%20University/109/147/28 Via Montenapoleone http://slurl.com/secondlife/Montenapoleone/144/178/32 Port Spinoza - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Port%20Spinoza/120/129/23 Second Health - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Second%20Health%20London/126/154/27 Streets of Baghdad - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Better%20World/182/192/23USC Marshall Business School - http://slurl.com/secondlife/USC%20Marshall/128/128/2 Western Australia Police - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Hwanung/161/146/256
Contact Details
Pauline RandallManaging Directorvirtual-e LtdLiz Ferlinghetti in Second [email protected]: @virtualewitLinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/paulinerandall Slideshare: http://slideshare.net/virtualeFlickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ferlinghetti/