ntfs symposium 2008 secondlife
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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
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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
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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
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Photos from Linden Labs
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Uses of SLUses of SL
• Business
• Holding meetings
• Social / Entertainment
• Simulations
• Education
Reuters in Second Life
http://www.secondlifevideo.com/item/JRQ90TJ3H8HJ2ZC4
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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
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SocialisingSocialising
• Nightclubs – DJs and musicians
• Games eg Tringo
• Bars
• Plays
• “Tourist attractions”
• Interest groups
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Photo from danceinthesky via Flickr
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Photo from Linden Labs
Photo from danceinthesky via Flickr
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Photo from Linden Labs
Photo from danceinthesky via Flickr
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Ben and Jerry’s
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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
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The Java Shop in Godric's Hollow By grayceeshepherd
Linden Gallery of Resident Art
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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
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ClassesClasses
• Discussions
• Lectures
• Simulations
• Exhibitions
• Explorations
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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)
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Links to other platformsLinks to other platforms
• Moodle has Sloodle http://www.sloodle.org/
• Blackboard is working with Ball State University
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Some StatisticsSome Statistics
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25,000,000
30,000,000
Feb '06 Jan '07 April '07 July '07 Oct '07 Jan '08
Hours in World
US$ exchanged for L$
Population (Feb'06 143k)
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• Silversprite’s Slideshow of UK HE & FE in SL®
http://www.flickr.com/photos/silversprite/sets/72157603982005324/show/
http://www.silversprite.com
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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
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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
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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/
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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
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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/
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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