Nscc And Second Life 2008
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NSCC Festival of Learning 2008Lorraine Storry Mockford
Nova Scotia Community College
Started in 2003 by Linden Labs in San Francisco; Teen Grid started 2005 for 13-17 year olds
Approximately 600,00 active users, averages 40,000 to 60,000 – from around the world - at any time of the day
Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely created by its residents
It consists of several digital continents (and numerous islands), teeming with people, entertainment, experiences and opportunity
Residents retain the rights to their digital creations; they can buy, sell and trade with other residents
The Marketplace currently supports millions of US dollars in monthly transactions. This commerce is handled with the in-world unit-of-trade, the Linden dollar, which can be converted to US dollars at several thriving online Linden Dollar exchanges
http://secondlife.com/
Occasional problems with Second Life connectivity are usually my fault
Learning areasCollaborativeExperientialAuthentic Creative Synchronous
Learning opportunities
Career explorationNetworkingService LearningDisabilities studiesSkills / DrillsInformation / researchPracticumProjectsMeetingsConferences
Our virtual world learning space
A Brief Introduction to SL: Educationhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6D9I36zsec RezEd: The Hub for Learning and Virtual
Worlds http://www.rezed.org New Media Consortium http://sl.nmc.org
Most Thursdays at 8:00 PM Stimulating conversations and
sometimes dancing!
Weekly chats with colleagues from around the world
Relay for Life candle walk
Created by a medical school instructor for anatomy and
physiology
Model at Genome Island
A class field trip to Support for Healing island.
Copyright issues prevented a production of the Vagina Monologues,
so the cast wrote their own play.
Sponsored by New Media Consortium
Entirely in-world
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