1. Discovering your Second Life Kathryn Greenhill, March 2008 Kathryn Greenhill k.greenhill@murdoch.edu.au

2. Slides at: http://murdochsecondlife.pbwiki.com Kathryn Greenhill k.greenhill@murdoch.edu.au

3.

• Background

• Registering an avatar

• Orientation Island

• Murdoch University Island Treasure Hunt

• Visit an Educational Site

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4. Background Kathryn Greenhill k.greenhill@murdoch.edu.au

5.

• What is Second Life ?

• What are Universities doing there ?

• Murdoch University Island

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6. What is Second Life? Kathryn Greenhill k.greenhill@murdoch.edu.au

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9. Avatars Islands Buildings Objects Kathryn Greenhill k.greenhill@murdoch.edu.au

10. Limitations Kathryn Greenhill k.greenhill@murdoch.edu.au

11. OVERHYPED Second Life is Kathryn Greenhill k.greenhill@murdoch.edu.au

12.

• 80 Percent of Active Internet Users Will Have A ``Second Life'' in the Virtual World by the End of 2011 - Gartner

• Educause/NMC Horizon Report 2007

But Kathryn Greenhill k.greenhill@murdoch.edu.au

13. Growth is levelling off Although Kathryn Greenhill k.greenhill@murdoch.edu.au

14. Source: Linden Labs. Second Life economy posts solid growth in Q4: http://blog.secondlife.com/2008/01/17/second-life-economy-posts-solid-growth-in-q4/ Kathryn Greenhill k.greenhill@murdoch.edu.au

15. Where our users are NOT Kathryn Greenhill k.greenhill@murdoch.edu.au

16.

• Client software not a web browser

• Broadband

• Fast processor

• High end graphics card

Access Kathryn Greenhill k.greenhill@murdoch.edu.au

17. Its evolving Remember this . Kathryn Greenhill k.greenhill@murdoch.edu.au

18. Free Full of educators A prototype Has critical mass Available right now It is Kathryn Greenhill k.greenhill@murdoch.edu.au

19. Worth investigating Can only be understood by doing Kathryn Greenhill k.greenhill@murdoch.edu.au

20. Universities Kathryn Greenhill k.greenhill@murdoch.edu.au

21. Australian Universities

• USQ Terra incognita

• QUT Law Faculty

• RMIT

• AFTRS

• Monash

• Griffiths

• Murdoch

• (CSIRO and ABC)

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22. What are they doing?

• Presentations

• Teaching

• Conferences

• International Networking

• Showcasing University

• Replicating physical layout

• Showing new buildings

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23. Ohio University in Second Life http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v =aFuNFRie8wA Kathryn Greenhill k.greenhill@murdoch.edu.au

24. Murdoch University Kathryn Greenhill k.greenhill@murdoch.edu.au

25. Library rented a plot of land in Feb 2007 and ran classes May July 2007 Kathryn Greenhill k.greenhill@murdoch.edu.au

26. Offer SL PC lab and training sessions Kathryn Greenhill k.greenhill@murdoch.edu.au

27. Second Life Interest Group Kathryn Greenhill k.greenhill@murdoch.edu.au

28. Murdoch University Island

• Library

• Teaching and Learning

• ITS

• School of IT

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29. Delivered 28 Sept 2007 Kathryn Greenhill k.greenhill@murdoch.edu.au

30.

• Project work for IT students

• Training by library

• Experimentation by Uni community

• Not yet public access

• Learning Best Practice to manage

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31. Semester 2 2007 ICT333 / TLC277 6 students Job interview simulation Kathryn Greenhill k.greenhill@murdoch.edu.au

32. Semester 1 2008 6 ICT333 students working with Allan Barton from Chemistry on a murder role play environment Kathryn Greenhill k.greenhill@murdoch.edu.au

33. Semester 1 2008 ICT Student doing ISC redesigning island layout. Kathryn Greenhill k.greenhill@murdoch.edu.au

34. THE WORKSHOP DISCLAIMER Kathryn Greenhill k.greenhill@murdoch.edu.au

35. What are we not doing ? Kathryn Greenhill k.greenhill@murdoch.edu.au

36. Like the internet in general, in Second Life educational sites sit alongside porn, and people out to make a fast buck. We're not hanging out there. It's not work. Don't do it here. Kathryn Greenhill k.greenhill@murdoch.edu.au

37. We're not advising you to spend work time in Second Life doing non-work things. It's not work. Don't do it here. . Kathryn Greenhill k.greenhill@murdoch.edu.au

38. Were not advising you to spend work time in Second Life doing work things to the exclusion of other work. Kathryn Greenhill k.greenhill@murdoch.edu.au

39. So - what can we do? Kathryn Greenhill k.greenhill@murdoch.edu.au

40. Second Life is a chance to learn new skills and a different literacy Kathryn Greenhill k.greenhill@murdoch.edu.au

41. These things are OK . Kathryn Greenhill k.greenhill@murdoch.edu.au

42. Learning how to get around walk, fly, teleport, swim, dance Kathryn Greenhill k.greenhill@murdoch.edu.au

43. Learning to do things with objects take, give, buy, sell, create, touch, move, edit Kathryn Greenhill k.greenhill@murdoch.edu.au

44. Interacting with other people IMing, chatting, viewing profiles, searching, joining groups Kathryn Greenhill k.greenhill@murdoch.edu.au

45. Doing things with your avatar changing appearance, editing, animating Kathryn Greenhill k.greenhill@murdoch.edu.au

46. Exploring Second Life attending events, exploring locations Kathryn Greenhill k.greenhill@murdoch.edu.au