Rodan Rodenberger
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Rhonda Berger
CT&D
Jellie Lane
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Janelle Fernandez
Virtual College
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Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely
created by its Residents.
Since opening to the public in 2003, it has
grown explosively and today is inhabited by
millions of residents from around the globe.
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Social Interaction & Networking
Businesses (Both in SL and real life)
Government – NASA, NOAA
Entrepreneurial endeavors
Creative Arts (live music, etc.)
Education – List of schools
Prototyping
Role-playing
Buy & Sell objects like real life
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Active Learning:
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◦ An ideal platform for engaging students in creating their
own learning activities, experiences and environments, and
not just be passive consumers of learning.
3D virtual worlds can provide:
◦ Opportunities for rich sensory immersive experiences.
◦ Authentic contexts and activities for experiential learning,
simulation and role-play.
Sample Institutions
Central Piedmont College
Princeton University
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Educational Use Video
Ohio State University YouTube
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English students at the University of TexasAustin each picked a role model, created an
avatar and assumed the role of the avatar for the
activity. Among avatars: Malcolm X, Oprah,
Mother Teresa, Bill Gates and Teddy Roosevelt.
The students conducted conversations in the
personae of their avatars.
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The 3D virtual world "Second Life" is full of
places to practice a foreign language - you
can speak with real people all over the
world.
On the Avatar Languages web.
You can click on a map to go
directly to a country.
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Thousands of residents are making part or all of their real life
income from their Second Life Businesses.
– Linden Dollars
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Existing in-world companies also have Second Life presence
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Cisco
IBM
MTV
Starwood Hotels
Sun Microsystems
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Holds press conferences in their “Sun Pavilion”
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NESIMOR is a 3-D simulator that uses the online virtual of Second
Life to practice diagnosing and treating patients in a simulated
emergency department environment. It is currently being used to
instruct nursing students at Tacoma Community College.
Nursing Field Trip
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NOAA
NASA
Genome Project
Video: Science Learning Opportunities
History of the Earth and Life on Earth: Students in Chris Impey’s astrobiology course at the
University of Arizona contributed to his History of the Earth and Life on Earth exhibit.
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UC Davies – Schizophrenia
Koolaid people - Creating
Community/Exploring diversity
Utopian Society
Body Image
Ethnic/Gender Studies
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3D Modeling
Galleries
Contests
The Louvre
SL Art Gallery List
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Social Gatherings
Parties
Dance Clubs
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SL Users have the best seats in the house to these concerts
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Emergency Preparedness
Companies are combining the use of Second
Life and the (Nintendo) WiiMote to train
employees on things such as:
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Inspecting a house for moisture and heat sources
Mixing chemicals and loading them onto a truck
Power Plant training
Driving simulations
 Using products like Google Maps and Google Earth, simulation can
represent actual streets on-screen, so that not every trainee in America
has to drive down the "same mythical Maple Street”.
 Training modules include those intersections and locations where there
is a history of accidents.
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SL provides online facilities for entire conferences to take
place via the web
Conferences sometimes held on SL and simultaneously in a
live facility
http://sites.google.com/a/mymdc.net/mdcsl
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Foundation Grant
Class Meeting Rooms
Training
Demonstration