second life for education central texas college feb 2008
DESCRIPTION
This is what I compiled to give an introduction to the community college I work for. I wanted to show it in the ppt, break into the SL program, and then return to the ppt to in order to start some excitement about the possibilities for our own campus island. :-) I chose SL sites that represented some of our departments and interests as college professors engaged in student learning in the class and at a distance.TRANSCRIPT
Second Life for Education
Lisa M. Volle
Feb. 8, 2008
What is Second Life?
• www.secondlife.com• Second Life is a 3-D virtual world • Interactive Environment with real-time
communication with type chat or voice chat.• Display of information and artifacts.• Students and teachers can meet and work
collaboratively inside private or public venues.
Information Island: Library
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info+Island/108/72/35
Museum of DE & Technology
Infotainment
National Republican Headquarters
• http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cosentino/237/45/26
VT Memorial
• http://slurl.com/secondlife/Memorial+Park/127/123/29
Events
Class Meetings
Orientation Meeting for Anth.
Class Meeting
Fuimos de Compras
Exploramos!
Let’s Visit in World!
• We will start our “tour” by visiting 3-4 places inside SL.
• The Tahoa Classroom (temporary home of my CTC classes)
• International Island & Information Island
• Texas State University
Project Proposal
• With Faculty & Staff support, I would like to initiate the construction of …
• CENTRAL TEXAS COLLEGE SL Campus
• Library, offices, student center, student activities, planetarium, movies, art museum, gymnasium, bookstore, KNCT & 91.3 and
• CLASSROOMS.• Potential to tie all CTC campuses together.• Support from community advertisements