second life tips keynote address 2008
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Keynote address for the Jossey-Bass Online Teaching and Learning (OTL) Conference, October 6-8, 2008 held at http://home.learningtimes.net/otlThis presentation includes 2008 activities and updated references. The lamp project may be obtained from Lyr Lobo in Second Life.TRANSCRIPT
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Second Life: Teaching Tips from the Virtual Frontier
Cynthia CalongneColorado Technical UniversityOnline Teaching and Learning Conference, October 7, 2008
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Teaching in a Virtual World
• Virtual world class ingredients– Presence– Place– Content– Discussion
– Interaction– Project Creation– Assessment
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Eric McLuhan in Second Life
SLCN machinima October 27, 2007http://slcn.tv/media-ecology-eric-mcluhan
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Presence
Who are these people?
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Sense of Presence• Appearance
– 1st self or ideal self?
• Movement– SL user interface
– Animation override (AO) custom device
• Communication– Voice, text, gestures
• Group Notices & IMs
• Hair, skin, shape and clothes
• Moving your avatar – Arrow keys or Navigation
Menu
– Poses and animations
• Looking at the class– Camera controls
• Arrows or View menu
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If You Build It, They Will Come
• The interaction between people and content– Explore– Discover– Discuss– Create– Play
A student ignites the professor
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Colorado Tech Island
Classes andlive music festivals onColorado Tech in SL
Student projects are displayedon the Boardwalk and onLyr Lobo’s class islands
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Imaginative Learning Spaces
Bardic storytelling circle in the foreground; fairytale designs
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Instructor and student-designed projects
Creative and innovative environments
Spaces where students can get messy and learn
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Virtual Office Hours
Underwater office - a window with a view!
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How we Teach and Learn in SL• Self image
• Mentor, collaborate
• Social networks
• Class projects
• Roleplay
• Learning games
• Blended reality
• Exploration
• Build
• Create an avatar - you!
• Office hours, facilitation
• Share ideas, hold meetings
• Applied learning
• Immersive learning
• Interactivities
• Real & virtual meetings
• Visit, tour, study
• Create and customize
80% of the world’s Internet users will be in a virtual world by 2011 (Gartner, 2007) -- Are you ready?
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Second Life Classes at CTU
MGM 845 Strategic Thinking
CS 855 Socio-technical Futuring10+ classes taught in
Second Life
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Robotics Projects
Four projects were created during a 3-week class session
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Blended Reality Meetings
Use of games in education
The MacArthur Foundation
answers Lyr Lobo’s question during the Fall
2006 NMC Symposium
in Second Life
Avatars in Second Life interact with the panel
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MBA 770 Class at Wright State
Shu Shiller’s students participate in a collaboration exercise in Second Life
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Getting Ready to Teach and Learn
• Readiness checklist– Avatar -- yourself!
• Appearance
• Communication
– User interface• Motor skills
• Camera controls
– Class content• Activities
– AssessmentLyr Lobo and Dancer in Second Life
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Communicating with studentsin Second Life
Left to right
TeleportGroup Notice
2nd rowVoice Chat (*)Instant MessageURLs embedded
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Shall we dance?
Movement in Second Life
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Learning Times Reception
Dance animation menu displays after clicking the floor; control menus on screen
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Social Networking
A screenshot of the reception in Second Lifefrom a dual monitor system; notice Twitter in the back channel
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Looking at Objects and People
• Camera orientation– Control
– Coordination
– Confidence
– Alt click an object• Your camera locks onto it
– Use the Escape key twice (Esc) to return to your view
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Science Comes to Life
The National Physics Laboratorypresents the advances in
Nanotechnology
Interactive Nano Labs
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Virtual World Learning Spaces
Nanotechnology Lab in Second Life, an asynchronous learning environment
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Middle School Students at Ramapo
Roleplay andconflict in animmersive literature class
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, portrayed by Suffern Middle School students
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Interactivities
Human barometer activityFuturing and Innovation students
take a standCTU students
shop for academic regaliaat the NMC Orientation island
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Bridging Classes Together
A student created amonorail and sent it up 300 meters to thevisit another class.
Not unlike running down the hall to visit a different class
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Virtual Hallucinations
University of Queensboro University of Calif, Davis
Survey Instrument in SLVoices and Perception
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Modeling the Problem
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Crooked House
You never run out of house as it rolls over while you walk
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CS 820 at CTU included novice users who learned to build their class projects
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A self-guided tutorial for building a 20-minute project
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Students new to SL create class projects and
conduct usability tests in a virtual world
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Conducting usability tests of two accessibility projects
Evaluating Student Work
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Virtual Spaces and Content
• Immersive, interactive, imaginative settings
• Asynchronous and synchronous activities
• 3D graphics, sounds, gestures and interaction
• Immersive literature, immersive history, scientific discovery, contextual settings, applied math, creativity and social networks
• Are you ready to teach in Second Life?
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SL Research Links 1• Second Life
– http://secondlife.com/ http://secondlifegrid.net/
• Cynthia Calongne’s Classes in Second Life– http://ctusoftware.blogspot.com
• Research in Second Life presentation– http://www.slideshare.net/lyrlobo/research-in-second-life
• Artificial Intelligence in SL– http://web.bvu.edu/faculty/schweller/
• TCC Preconference Wiki -- SL from a Flash drive tips– http://tccpre-conference.pbwiki.com/
• Edumuve– http://edumuve.com/tour/ and http://edumuve.com/blended/
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SL Research Links 2• National Public Radio’s Science Friday in SL
– http://www.sciencefriday.com/
• NMC Campus Observer– http://sl.nmc.org/
• NOAA’s Traffic Analysis– http://mayarealities.com/
• Best Practices in SL– http://www.slcn.tv/bpe-lyr-lobo
• Annotated Bibliograophy of SL Educational Resources – http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~mpepper/slbib
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SL Research Links 3• Second Life as a Virtual Learning Environment
– http://www.dokimos.org/secondlife/education/index.html
• An Educational Tour of Second Life– http://www.slideshare.net/lyrlobo/an-educational-tour-of-second-life
• A View from Second Life’s Trenches: Are you a Pioneer or a Settler?– http://sl.nmc.org/2007/06/09/pioneer-or-settler/
• Leveraging the Affordances, Minimizing the Barriers of Virtual Worlds– http://sl.nmc.org/2007/06/09/edu-panel/
• LearnScope in Second Life– http://www.slideshare.net/lyrlobo/learnscope-in-second-life
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SL Research Links 4• Using Second Life
– www.educause.edu/ir/library/powerpoint/SAC07025A.pps
• Beyond Course Management Tools: Second Life – www.educause.edu/ir/library/powerpoint/SAC07014.pps
• Virtual worlds in Online Education: Are You Ready to Teach in Second Life?– http://www.telecoop.org/conference/materials/CalogneTeachinginSecondLife.ppt
• What Can We Learn from World of Warcraft & Second Life?– http://archive.nmc.org/events/2006fallregional/materials/calongne.ppt
• SL Podcast by Bayne, Walker and Calongne– http://connect.educause.edu/blog/gbayne/podcastusingsecondli/44967?time=1188754831
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SL Research Links 5• Who’s on Second? Educational Podcasts
– http://www.rabble.ca/rpn/podcast.php?id=wos
• Second Life Development -- VITAL Lab– http://vital.cs.ohiou.edu/vitalwiki/index.php/Second_Life_Development
• Suffern Middle School in Second Life– http://rampoislands.blogspot.com/2007_02_01_archive.html
• Second Life Library 2.0– http://www.infoisland.org/drupal/ and http://www.myspace.com/73899784
• Second Life Education Wiki– http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Second_Life_Education_Wiki
• LSL Wiki -- programming tools– http://www.lslwiki.net/lslwiki/wakka.php?wakka=HomePage
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SL Research Links 6• Secondary Worlds
– http://secondaryworlds.com/
• Reuters -- Doors to open on Google Virtual world(s)?– http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2007/10/24/doors-to-open-on-google-virtual-
worlds/
• SL and Google Earth are Transforming the Idea of Architectural Collaboration– http://archrecord.construction.com/features/digital/archives/0701dignews-2.asp
• Timeline - History of Second Life Wiki – http://secondlife.wikia.com/index.php/Second_Life_Through_The_Ages
• UberNoggin: Big Brains - Big Ideas– http://www.ubernoggin.com/
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SL Research Links 7 - News• Reuters in Second life
– http://secondlife.reuters.com/
• The SL Newspaper– http://www.sl-newspaper.com/
• Second Life Herald– http://www.secondlifeherald.com/
• Metaverse Messenger– http://metaversemessenger.com/index.html
• SLNN– http://www.slnn.com/index.php
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SL Research Links 8• New Worlds Notes
– http://nwn.blogs.com/
• SL A Virtual Universe for Real Engineering– http://www.designnews.com/index.asp?
layout=article&articleid=CA6490691
• Just Virtual– http://www.justvirtual.com/index.php/category/second-life/
• Seifert Surface - Math in Second Life– http://www.segerman.org/2ndlife.html
• Eric McLuhan in Second Life - Playing Media Ecology– http://slcn.tv/media-ecology-eric-mcluhan
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Second Life: Teaching Tips from the Virtual Frontier
Cynthia CalongneLyr Lobo in Second Life
[email protected]://ctusoftware.blogspot.com
www.slideshare.net/lyrlobo
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