Staff and Departmental Development Unit Get a Second Life Simon Davis Jane O’Neill SDDU.

Staff and Departmental Development Unit

Get a Second Life

Simon Davis

Jane O’Neill

SDDU

Agenda

Overview of Secondlife

Educational uses

‘Simon says’

Exploring Secondlife

Discussion

What is Secondlife?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxj8RTW4ev4

What is Secondlife?

3D virtual world on the internet

Free to use

Pay for land

What is Secondlife?

Personalised avatar

http://www.flickr.com/photos/40034470@N00/247465407/

What is Secondlife?

Communicate by text or voice

What is Secondlife?

Walk, fly, dance, cycle, teleport….

What is Secondlife?

Created by ‘residents’

What is Secondlife?

A place to:

•Explore

•Meet

•Socialise

•Learn

•Create

…………..

Educational Uses

Information point

Presentation and discussion

Exhibition space

Building and creating

Enterprise

Role play

Language practice

Simulation

Simulation

http://www.flickr.com/photos/slml/1990427603/

Issues

Reliability

Computer spec

Firewalls etc

Learning curve

Time