ntfs symposium 2008 secondlife

Second Life Second Life ®®

Jane Chandler (RL) / Lane Erde (SL)Jane Chandler (RL) / Lane Erde (SL)Jonathan Crellin (RL) / Jack Salyut (SL)Jonathan Crellin (RL) / Jack Salyut (SL)

Emma Duke-Williams (RL) / Emma Duke-Williams (RL) / Emmadw Rickenbacker (SL)Emmadw Rickenbacker (SL)

School of Computing &School of Computing & The ExPERT Centre The ExPERT Centre

University of PortsmouthUniversity of Portsmouth

http://secondlife.com

What is Second Life?What is Second Life?• A virtual world

• Rich, graphical, 3-D environment

• Real people represented by avatars

• Chat, IM and voice communication

• Content is user created

• Audio and video streaming

• Links out to the web and the beginnings of running the web inside SL

How do I use it?How do I use it?

• Create an account (which can be a free account or a premium account at around US$10 a month)

• Check the pc hardware requirements

• Check the firewall requirements

• Download the client to your pc or a memory stick

• Start using it

Photos from Linden Labs

Uses of SLUses of SL

• Business

• Holding meetings

• Social / Entertainment

• Simulations

• Education

Reuters in Second Life

http://www.secondlifevideo.com/item/JRQ90TJ3H8HJ2ZC4

How Widely do Universities and How Widely do Universities and Colleges use Second Life?Colleges use Second Life?

• SimTeach: Institutions and Organizations in SL lists 133 (May 2008) http://simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Institutions_and_Organizations_in_SL

• John Kirriemuir’s “Snapshots of Second Life use in UK HE and FE” http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/studies/slsnapshots

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Educational Uses of SLEducational Uses of SL• Content Creation: art, software,

• Simulations: places, events, buildings

• Classes: lectures, tutorials, ‘treasure hunts’

• Libraries and Museums

• Risky/expensive experiences: running a business, investigating other cultures

• Other: meetings, socialising

SocialisingSocialising

• Nightclubs – DJs and musicians

• Games eg Tringo

• Bars

• Plays

• “Tourist attractions”

• Interest groups

Photo from danceinthesky via Flickr

Photo from Linden Labs

Photo from danceinthesky via Flickr

Photo from Linden Labs

Photo from danceinthesky via Flickr

Ben and Jerry’s

Content CreationContent Creation• Fashion

• Buildings

• Vehicles

• Furniture

• Scripts

• Art works: photos, pictures, sculpture, installations, sound

• IP rests with the creator in SLPhoto from Linden Labs

The Java Shop in Godric's Hollow By grayceeshepherd

The Java Shop in Godric's Hollow By grayceeshepherd

The Java Shop in Godric's Hollow By grayceeshepherd

Linden Gallery of Resident Art

Simulating RealitySimulating Reality

• Places e.g Morocco

• Buildings e.g. Sistine Chapel

• People e.g. schizophreniza

• Events e.g tsunamis, Canterbury Tales

• Training e.g. disaster response

• Other e.g. solar system

ClassesClasses

• Discussions

• Lectures

• Simulations

• Exhibitions

• Explorations

SL and the internetSL and the internet

• Streaming video

• Streaming music

• Upload powerpoint slides

• Link out to the web

• Display RSS feeds in world

• Display websites in world (but not yet interact with them)

Links to other platformsLinks to other platforms

• Moodle has Sloodle http://www.sloodle.org/

• Blackboard is working with Ball State University

• Facebook

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Population (Feb'06 143k)

• Silversprite’s Slideshow of UK HE & FE in SL®

http://www.flickr.com/photos/silversprite/sets/72157603982005324/show/

http://www.silversprite.com

Video ClipsVideo Clips• Education in Second Life: Explore the Possibilities http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMGR9q43dag&feature=related

• Educational Uses of Second Life http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOFU9oUF2HA&feature=related

• Introduction to Second Life http://www.secondlifevideo.com/item/T3LKQP54MX4MRY8W

• Watch the World(s) http://youtube.com/watch?v=LxVDVggLqsA

• CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opinion http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cyberone/

• How to make a gift box... happy holidays! - SL TuTORial http://youtube.com/watch?v=876wwYv6Tf0

BooksBooks• Creating Your World: The Official Guide to Advanced

Content Creation for Second Life by Aimee Weber, Kimberly RuferBach & Richard Platel (2007) John Wiley & Sons ISBN-13: 978-0470171141

• I, Avatar: The Culture and Consequences of Having a Second Life by Mark Stephen Meadows (2008) New Riders ISBN-13: 978-0321533395

• 101 Uses for Second Life in the College Classroom by Megan S. Conklin: http://facstaff.elon.edu/mconklin/pubs/glshandout.pdf

Websites – Getting GoingWebsites – Getting Going

• http://secondlife.com/• Joining SL:

http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=ddpfmbxr_683gt5h2&hl=en

• Joining via NMC: http://sl.nmc.org/join/• Enterprise 3.D Living and Working in Virtual Worlds

http://www.slideshare.net/rooreynolds/enterprise-3d-living-and-working-in-virtual-worlds/

Education WebsitesEducation Websites• Edumuve.com: http://edumuve.com/tour/• Eduserv Foundation: http://

www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/sl.aspx• RezEd: The Hub for Learning and Virtual Worlds http://

www.rezed.org/• The SaLamander Project: http://

www.eduisland.net/salamanderwiki/index.php?title=Main_Page• SimTeach: Information and Community for Educators using

M.U.V.E.'s: http://www.simteach.com/• Second Life in Education:

http://sleducation.wikispaces.com/educationaluses• NMC in Second Life ®http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9VZKTT6gZ8

BlogsBlogs

• Wagner James Au’s New World Notes http://nwn.blogs.com/

• Metanomics http://metanomics.net/• NMC Campus Observer http://sl.nmc.org/• Second Life Research

http://secondliferesearch.blogspot.com/• Intellagirl’s Ubernoggin http://www.ubernoggin.com/• SLED Blog http://www.sl-educationblog.org/• NMC Campus Observer: http://sl.nmc.org/• Second Life Business Brief http://slbrief.com/• IBM’s Roo Reynold’s and Ian Hughes’s eightbar http://

eightbar.co.uk/

Mailing ListsMailing Lists

• SLED – SL Educators https://lists.secondlife.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/educators

• Slrl – Second Life Research http://list.academ-x.com/listinfo.cgi/slrl-academ-x.com