1. Virtual World Teaching 101 Minnie Ladores, Ed.D. Frostburg State University

2. muve multi-user virtual environment 3. muve examples Second Life Open Sim Reaction Grid Club Penguin (for Kids) 4. 5. 6. 7. 1,000,000 regular users 8. 2011 First Quarter Nearly 800 thousand people logged into Second Life more than once during each month The overall dollar value of Linden Dollars held by Second Life residents is up to US$29.3 million 9. US $1 = L$ 250 L$270 Linden dollars 10. Anshe Chung Ailin Graef First SL Millionaire 11. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/1416608737/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books 12. SL Basics 13. in world 14. avatar av alt noob 15. wear detach clothes shoes hair skin shape 16. sim 17. prims sculpties scripts 18. 19. teleport tp me 20. What dopeopledo in Second Life? 21. explore sims 22. 23. dance to live streaming music 24. shop 25. read 26. story telling in voice 27. fly 28. sailing 29. scuba diving 30. practice religion 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. art gallery 36. conference 37. build and script 38. 39. make friends 40. What doeducatorsdo in Second Life? 41. virtual campus 42. online class 43. simulation 44. simulation 45. service learning 46. 47. virtual field trip 48. 49. exhibit student work 50. network 51. professional development 52. Teens in Second Life 53. Cross Cultural Collaboration through Skoolaborate 54. Conne River Project, Canada 55. How promising is it?

Global

• • Growing

• • • • Web 3.0

56. Challenges

Tech requirements

Finance

Human Factor

57. SL may be virtualbut it is ahumanworld. 58. Getting Started 59. 1. Go to secondlife.com and join 60. 2. Create your avatar 61. 3. Download a Viewer 62. 4. Launch the viewer and log in 63. Orientation Island 64. Bringing Teachers in World Lessons We Learned the Hard Way 65. Establish a Group 66. Establish a Home Location 67. Have students create new accounts off the schools network

IP Address Limits

68. Provide students witha home location

Copy and paste the SLurl from the map clipboard

Provide this Slurl to students prior to first entry

69. Keep Goals Reasonable 70. Spend Time on Basic Skills 71. Take Virtual Field Trips 72. Invite Experts 73. Create Personal Connections 74. Relax and Have Fun! 75. Explore the gatewayto the future! [email_address]