2. What is Second Life?
• 3-D virtual metaverse entirely built
3D
and owned by its residents
• Began as 64 acres in 2003
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• By 2007 was 64K+ acres
• Fully-integrated economy: Linden
Fully integrated
Dollar Exchange
• Linden Lab – Support & development
de ab Suppo t de e op e t
• Pacific Standard Time (SL Time)
3. Metaverse (According to Wikipedia)
• From Neal Stephenson’s 1992
Stephenson s
novel Snow Crash
• Widely used to describe the vision
behind current work on fully
p
immersive 3D virtual spaces
• Environments where humans
interact (as avatars) with each
( )
other (socially and economically)
5. Windows Minimum
System Requirements
S R i
• Internet Connection: Cable or DSL
• Operating System: Windows XP or Vista
• Computer Processor: 800MHz Pentium
p
III or Athlon, or better
• Computer Memory: 512MB or better
• Screen Resolution: 1024x768 pixels
• Video/Graphics Card: nVidia GeForce 2,
GeForce 4mx, or better
4mx
– OR ATI Radeon 8500, 9250, or better
– OR Intel 945 chipset
7. Retain ALL IP Rights
Linden Lab's Terms of Service agreement
g
recognizes Residents' right to retain full
intellectual property protection for the digital
content they create in Second Life
Life,
including avatar characters, clothing,
scripts, textures, objects and designs. This
p , , j g
right is enforceable and applicable both in-
world and offline, both for non-profit and
commercial ventures You create it you
ventures. it,
own it – and it's yours to do with as you
please.
8. Example of Use Fees
(Beyond Basic Free Account)
• US$9 95/month Premium
US$9.95/month
Membership, includes
512sqm and weekly stipend
• 1/128 region, 512sqm, 117
region 512sqm
prims, US$5
• Entire region, 65,536sqm,
15,000 prims,
15 000 prims US$195
19. Alliance Virtual Library
• Partner: Alliance Library System
– one of nine regional library systems in
Illinois with over 250 member libraries
of all types
• Partner: OPAL
– Online programming for all libraries
• Public Blog: http://infoisland.org/
• Other links, including “working site”:
http://infoisland.org/links/
20. Examples from AVL
• Genealogy Research Center
• Library Gallery
• Mystery Manor
• Performance Center
• Science Center
• SF/Fantasy Center
• Health Info
21. Second Life Library:
Info I l d I C b
I f Island I, Cybrary City, etc.
Ci
By
B HVX Silverstar
Sil t
http://www.flickr.com/photos/photolibraries/
511035937/in/pool-secondlifelibrary/
511035937/in/pool secondlifelibrary/
22.
23.
24.
25.
26.
27.
28. Renaissance Island
By HVX Silverstar
http://www.flickr.com/photos/photolibraries/
527404571/in/pool-secondlifelibrary/
30. Online Presentations
Example:
Presentation by R.
P t ti b R
David Lankes, PhD, is
Director of the
Information Institute of
Syracuse (IIS) and an
Associate Professor
at Syracuse
University’s School of
Information Studies
http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/blog/
32. Example Course: Virtual World
Librarianship - Y
Lib i hi Your Second Lif
S d Life
• University of Illinois at Urbana-
Urbana
Champaign, The Graduate School
of Library and Information Science,
Science
& Illinois Alliance Library System
• Six 2 hour synchronous sessions
2-hour
will meet online in Second Life
http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/programs/cpd/Second_Life.html
33. San Jose State University's School
of Lib
f Library & I f
Information Science
i S i
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADE0VSffgis
PLAY MOVIE
34. Mukwa Dibou (ALA President-Elect, Loriene Roy)
and Jeremy Kemp (
y p (arriving) on SJSU sim
g)
chatting with SJSU students and librarians.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/photolibraries/511014362/in/
pool-secondlifelibrary/
35. Brand Map of Second Life:
http://www.kzero.co.uk/blog/?p=430
36. Avatar Academics, UCLA Magazine
(4/07)
• Esther Grassian, an information literacy
outreach coordinator at UCLA's College
Library; her avatar - Alexandria Knight.
• “Ball State University's students discuss
their assignments on SL”
• “Students of a Pepperdine University
distance-learning course meet every
fortnight to l
f i h learn, as well as explore, what
ll l h
it's like to be part of an online
community.
community ”
http://www.magazine.ucla.edu/features/second‐life_virtual‐classroom/
37. Educators Explore 'Second Life‘
Online (CNN.com)
O li (CNN )
• “The three-dimensional virtual world makes
it possible for students taking a distance
course to develop a real sense of
community,
community said Rebecca Nesson ”
Nesson.
• “Most people think online learning doesn't
require p
q participation or engagement with
p g g
course material, he said. But in "Second
Life" there's real-time interaction, which
means students need to engage in the
discussion -- much as if they were sitting in
a brick and mortar classroom.”
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/11/13/second.life.university/
38. Negative Comments to Expect
• Only a game
• Diversion
• Only trying to be edgy
• Waste of time
• Lets do “first” life better instead
L t d “fi t” lif b tt i t d
• Fantasy, fake
• Unprofessional
• Porn, gambling
39. Signs of Growth & Acceptance
• Sweden to set up
embassy in Second Life
y
• ALA Washington Opens
Virtual Office
• Reuters had dedicated SL
reporter
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40. For Teens as Well
• Teen Second Life:
http://teen.secondlife.com/
• Eye4You Alliance Island is
sponsored by the Alliance Library
System,
System PLCMC and SirsiDynix:
http://www.eye4youalliance.youthtech.info/
41. More Towards Education
• http://secondlife com/education/
http://secondlife.com/education/
• Second Life Best Practices in
Education: Teaching Learning and
Teaching, Learning,
Research 2007 International
Conference
– http://slbestpractices2007.wikispaces.com/
• htt //bl
https://blogs.secondlife.com
dlif
42. Directory of Libraries and
Organizations
• http://infoisland org/directory/
http://infoisland.org/directory/
• National Library of Medicine, Specialized
Information Services
55. Piata Revolutiei - First Romanian city
accurately represented in SL
t l t di
56. Cultural Arts Museum's interpretation of
England during the Neolithic Period
g g
(James Madison University)
57. Team OKAPI and Berkeley archaeologists mirror
t e p e sto c age, useu and archaeology
the prehistoric village, museum a d a c aeo ogy
in action at Catalhoyuk, Turkey.
67. Second Life Introduction
Introduction,
Become a Superhero
Brian Gray
(Brian Garfield in Second Life)
Case Western Reserve University
bcg8@case.edu
bcg8@case edu
OLSSI
August 3, 2009