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- 1. What Webs We Weave In Our Second Lives!!! if SL had a chocolate equivalent, it'd be over for RL!* *Actual SL quotes
- 10. Networking
Editor's Notes
- We are here to talk about the networking opportunities that one has within a virtual 3d world. Salli and I actually met in SL and have become great colleagues and friends through our networking in Sl. We both went into SL to explore what it is and what uses it may have for us in our teaching. What we found is it is much more than that. We both now have colleagues from around the world.
- First, let me explain what Second Life is. IT is technically a 3d video game and is built pretty much the same way. The creators of this “Game” though, decided to open it up for free and let the public build and create whatever they would want. It has become a place for simulations, learning, merchandising, and interacting and socializing.
- I mentioned the creators before but let me talk more about the history of Sl. SL was originally in the planning process starting in 2001 and was opened in 2002. It wasn’t originally opened to the public but was opened to other virtual world enthusiasts in the beginning. It was opened to the public in late 2002 and started out as one small grid. You can see from these pictures the extent of its growth over the following 5 years. The number of accounts are over 13 million with at least 40-50 thoughts on per day sometimes going over 70 thousand.
- Who makes up these thousands of everyday users? There are companies in there such as IBM Coldwell Banker, MGM, Apple, etc. There are organizations such as NOAA, National Science Institute, and Many Educational Institutions Such as PSU< Harvard, Carnegie-Mellon, OSU, SUNY< Drexel, etc. Many more are individuals. What are they doing in there? IBM uses it for employee training for its programmers, Coldwell Banker sell real estate, other companies are using it for advertising – Coke, McDonald’s, and some have a presence but aren’t utilizing it yet. Educational institutions are using it for training, teaching, advertising, research, and some are exploring yet how they will use it. Finally, individuals are using it for many of the same reasons but also to communicate, network, merchandise, explore, create simulations, role play, and socialize.
- Finally, here we are. You are the few who have met us in real life and are meeting us in Second life as well. As you can see, we can be human if we want or can take on another form as well. Most of the educational community we interact with take on human forms (if you include the “Barbie” look as human) but it is not universal. One of our steering Committee members is a fox. Salli and I met in second life and have interacted there, met in real life and now interact in both Second Life and real life.
- We have been in there to explore, network , and look at the opportunities there for educators. We have researched and worked on the skills needed in there of navigation, building, acquiring tools and learning what works and what doesn’t work in SL for teaching. Salli is going to go into more of the details of our networking and how it has helped us look at the opportunities for educators in SL.
- The pictures: Celebrating a friend's 60th birthday Group 4 Gurlz ANGEL Steering Committee meeting in SL
- For me, SL started out as a very social thing. i found myself in a cabin in the NC mountains during the month of June, 2007. I was NC Tourist by day and SL Tourist by night. I searched for ANGEL since I knew that there was supposed to be a presence in SL and came across ANGEL Learning Isle. I started hanging out there and met up with Nancy and Karen. We got to know each other very well during that month--so we decided to meet. We met on the Florida's West Coast during August 2007 and became not only colleagues, but friends too. Nancy developed the ANGEL Learning List and we began hanging out with others, having classes on the Isle, and taking field trips to see what others were doing.
- I wasn't finished learning and jumped at the opportunity to take a class. I found one offered through BSU in the Fall of 2007. There, I was put into a group of 4 members. Annie lives in England, Mauri lives in Vegas, and I live in Florida. We hit it off in the class called &quot;Teaching and Learning in Second Life&quot; and became friends through the class. We also learned a lot. We learned about Best Practices (and made up some of our own, too!), the new techniques as they were introduced, including Voice and Windlight--which is now in the standard download. We wrote procedures, lesson plans, and blogs.
- We hit it off so well, that we all met at Mauri's right before Christmas in 2007. We continue to work together in developing ideas for use in SL. We've committed to other conferences and facilitation with each other.
- Networking HAS helped, as it does in learning something new...and SL and the idea of teaching with it is brand new. I quit trying to talk people into using SL, but instead offer possibilities of using SL. I tell them that unless they feel that they have something that would be beneficially taught through SL, that they probably should deliver their material in a different way.