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SLCC Education track transcripts now available. If by any chance you’ve seen last year’s proceedings, then the first thing you’ll notice about this volume is the size – almost three times the size of last year’s.   read more

NECC HIGHLIGHTS EDUCATION IN SECOND LIFE:
 Many of the presentations at NECC this year featured
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Latest News from THE Journal: The Teen Grid: Bringing Your School into Second Life Second Life, which offers an virtual world complete with avatars to represent human visitors, has intrigued some educators  

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 Global Kids and the MacArthur Foundation have partnered to announce a new nonprofit and philanthropic theme for the third annual Second Life Community Convention ...
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 GEOWORLD The GeoWorlds Project is an innovative integration of collaborative virtual learning environments and problem-based pedagogy to engage students in ...
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The first annual Second Life Best Practices Conference  was held on Saturday, May 26, 2007 on ISTE Island in Second Life.
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 NOAA has arrived in Second Life, and they  brought all the fun and excitement you have naturally come to expect from...
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DISCLAIMER: The  creator of this collection is functioning as an agent and therefore is applying Fair Use Regulations to the content described herein.  Copyright applies to organization of content only and the creator makes no claim to ownership of content.

Organization of this content is presented as

Margaret Sheehy's

Final Project,

 Digital Libraries -

ILS-655-S71,

 Prof. Yan Quan Liu, Ph.D
SCSU 7/2007

LINKs, BLOGs, & WIKIs

PLEASE NOTE:  Hyperlinks to some resources may take you outside of this collection and you will need to use the "back" button on your browser to navigate back..

Many educators and SL citizens are keeping blogs to document their educational ideas, classroom activities, and general responses to SL.  Some of these blogs are theory-focused, pedagogy focused, and some are just fascinating insights into the minds of the SL Blogosphere.

SIMTEACH: Description: Wiki documenting the education and academic resources available for the virtual world of Second Life.

http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Second_Life:_Educators_Working_with_Teens [external link]
InfoIsland The wiki associated with the Eye4You Alliance Library http://infoisland.org/ [external link]
Ramapo Islands: Description: Peggy Sheehy's blog account of happenings and observations of Ramapo Islands and its virtual inhabitants, the 8th graders of Suffern Middle School.

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 Suffern Middle School in Second Life [external link]
Walden University Research
 Description: Kevin Jarrett's Ongoing results of Walden University sponsored project researching the educational possibilities within SecondLife and Teen SecondLife.

 

 The Story of My Second Life [external link]
Campus Second Life Description: Informational wiki on opportunities for educators to establish presence in SecondLife.

 

 Campus: Second LIfe [external link]
PLCMC,
Description: Official website and blog of Eye4You Alliance, the Teen SecondLife Library.  This project is sponsored and created by the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County.

 

 youthtech.info [external link]
Dubai American Academy Description: Official website and blog of the Dubai American Academy's Digital Media Studies Teen SecondLife Pilot Project.

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 Dubai American Academy's Digital Media Studies TeenSL Pilot Project [external link]
Peggy Sheehy:  Edutainment
Description: Presentation introducing Teen Second Life and opportunities it offers for education.

 

  Edutainment? [external link]
Lindy McKeown: Action Learning in Second Life With the support of a Queensland Government Smart State PhD Grant, Australian Lindy McKeown has created an innovative online professional development space on the virtual island of Terra incognita which was designed to support Action Learning online.

 
  • Action Learning Leadership Project (Qld) [external link]
  • OzTeacherNet project( Australia) [external link]
  • Montage Project Collection (International)  [external link]

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    Barry Joseph: An (Educator's) History of the Teen Grid of Second Life- A Global Kids Choose-Your-Own-Best-Practices Adventure: Since Feb, 2006, Global Kids - an educational organization in New York City - has run one of the only island in the grid open to mainland teens, funded by or doing in partnership with the MacArthur Foundation, the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation, UNICEF, the U.S. Holocaust Museum, the International Criminal Court, IBM, YouthVenture and more.

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    		 http://www.HolyMeatballs.org [external link]
    http://www.GlobalKids.org [external link]
     Second Life in Education: A wiki run by Jo Kay and Sean Fitzgerald aiming to provide an overview of the educational possibilities of virtual worlds, with a focus on Second Life.

     
  • Second Life in education  [external link]

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    EduMUVE: Sites of interest to educators in Second Life

     

    		 edumuve: Sites of interest to educators in Second Life  [external link]
    Campus TSL Education Wiki on Teen Second Life

     

    		 - Campus TSL:
    AJ Kelton's Weblog,

    Director of Technology Services at Montclair State University in New Jersey.

    Ambling in Second Life Blog. Alesiter Kronos(in SL)  Largely narrative blog about Kronos' journeys in SL but also touches on ramifcations for social networking.

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    		 http://newton.montclair.edu:16080/weblog/keltona/Second%20Life/

     

     

    http://slambling.blogspot.com/
    Beth's Blog. Beth Kanter  Kanter is a professional blogger, trainer, coach, and consultant to nonprofits on how to utilize new media tools.

     

    		 http://beth.typepad.com/
    Beth's Second Life. Beth Ritter-Guth  Personal blog of an English and Woman's Studies instructor at LeHigh Carbon Community College in Pennsylvania.

     

    		 http://bethssecondlife.blogspot.com/

    Binary Footprints. Betsy Stoll Stoll is a Library and Information Science grad student at Wayne State University in Michigan.

     

    		 http://binaryfootprint.blogspot.com/
    Cool Cat Teacher Blog. Vicki A. Davis

     

    		 http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/
    Educational Adventures in Second Life. Marie Guyot and Jaines Halasy

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    		 http://web.mac.com/marieguyot/iWeb/Site/Welcome.html
    Global Kids Digital Media Initiative From the website: "Global Kids is a New York City based nonprofit that works with youth after school and online to build digital literacy,foster substantive virtual dialogues about current events, and promote civic participation through interactive games."

     

    		 http://www.holymeatballs.org/
    Kathy Schrock's Kaffeklatsch

     

    		 http://kathyschrock.net/blog/
    Krotoski, Aleks. University of Surrey Online research site and survey for a PhD candidate in Psychology. Her goal is to map social communication patterns in online spaces including Second Life.

     

    		 http://www.surrey.ac.uk/~psp1ak/

    http://socialsim.wordpress.com/
    MetaLab

     

    		 http://metalab.blogspot.com/
    MUVE FORWARD. Topher Zweirs.

     

    		 http://muveforward.blogspot.com/
    My So-Called Second Life. Nan Schultz

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    		 http://mysocalledsecondlife.com/
    Penn State Virtual Worlds

     

    		 http://ets.tlt.psu.edu/virtualworlds/
    Puritan's Guide to Second Life. Dembe Wellman

     

    		 http://puritansguidetosecondlife.blogspot.com/
     Intellagirl’s Second Life Education Research, Robbins, Sarah.

    Sarah Robbins (Intellagirl) is a Ph.d. Student in Rhetoric and Composition at Ball State in Indiana.  She performs consulting work for education and business, and her major research interests include: tagging, social networks, and computer-mediated writing.  Her dissertation in process concerns Second Life as community education space.

    The blog mainly consists of her research notes and what are likely sections of her dissertation.  She also includes extended reflections on her experiences teaching Freshman Composition in Second Life.

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    		 http://www.secondlife.intellagirl.com/
    Secondary Worlds. Robert Rozema

     

    		 http://secondaryworlds.com/
    Second Life Campus for DIS. Martin M-B, James Dearnley, and Annie Jeffery

     

    		 http://dis-sl.blogspot.com/
    Second Life Linguine. Clare Lane

     

    		 http://secondlifelinguine.wordpress.com/
    Second Life Research Blog. Marc Fetscherin

     

    		 http://secondliferesearch.blogspot.com/
    SLCC Blog. Official Blog of the Second Life Community Convention

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    		 http://slcc2007.wordpress.com/
    SLED Project. Rick Hadley

     

    		 http://www.rickhadley.com/sled/
    SLEDucating

     

    		 http://sleducating.com/
    Story of my Second Life. Kevin Jarrett

     

    		 http://www.storyofmysecondlife.com/
    Suffern Middle School in Second Life. Peggy Sheehy  A "running account" of Sheehy's class at Suffern Middle School in New York. Features a transcript of a mock SL trial held by students based on Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men." http://rampoislands.blogspot.com/
    VECoP. Virtual Educators Community of Practice

     

    		 http://vecop.blogspot.com/
    Victoria Gloucester

     

    		 http://www.victoriagloucester.net/
    MUVE Forward. Topher Zwiers http://muveforward.blogspot.com/
       

     

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