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ABS Deans Couse - June 2009TRANSCRIPT
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ABS DEANS PROGRAMME
Pauline Randallvirtual-e ltd
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second life
“Second Life is a free 3D virtual world where users can socialize, connect and create using voice and text chat”
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your experience so far?
What have you heard? What have you seen? What have you thought?
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pre-course preparation
Visiting second life Reading the articles
Have these changed your views? More favourable? Less favourable?
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How can you use this new technology in teaching and learning?
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Gartner’s hype cycle
http://www.gartner.com/pages/story.php.id.8795.s.8.jsp
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what is business doing in Second Life?
Collaboration
Concept testing
Conferences
Demonstrations
Meeting
Product testing
Recruitment
Training
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IBM conference
One fifth of the cost and no jet lag
ROI $320,000
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what about education?
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“...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/
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Imperial College, London
Respiratory diagnoses
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Open University
http://secondlifegrid.net.s3.amazonaws.com/docs/SecondLife_Case_OpenU.pdf
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Additional Resources
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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
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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
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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/