Second Life Education/Resources

The Education Community is Among the Most Vibrant and Active in Second Life

The education community is the fastest growing and among the most vibrant, active, and dynamic in Second Life. The email lists and groups are free to join and are places where you can listen to the conversations or join in. When you ask a question to the group, you are drawing on a deep well of experience and good will, where people generously share best practices, common mistakes, quick tips, and make connections.

Second Life Education Forum and Mailing List

• Second Life Education Forum
• Educators -- SL Educators (The SLED List)

General Learning Resources

• Second Life Knowledge Base
• Video Tutorials (SL Wiki)
• New Resident Resources in the SL Destination Guide
• Second Life Lexicon

Language Learning

• Cypris Chat
• DRIVE-THROUGH ESL

Places to Learn Second Life Skills

• Orientation Center, Virtual Ability - Direct SLurl (Basic operation)
• Ivory Tower Library of Primitives - Direct SLurl (How to build objects)
• Texture Tutorial & Libraly - Direct SLurl (How to use textures)
• College of Scripting Music & Science - Direct SLurl (How to use Linden Script Language)
• The Particle Laboratory - Direct SLurl (How to use particle effect)
• The Vehicle Laboratory - Direct SLurl (How to build vehicle physics)

SL Education Blogs

• Virtual Center for Archives and Records Management (VCARA), SJSU/SLIS—virtual space for those interested in archives, records, and special collections to network and collaborate
• Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable (VWER)
• International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
• Nonprofits in Second Life (NPSL)

Videos Showcasing Educators in SL

• ISTE Eduverse Series
• Metanomics Robert Bloomfield interview with Dr. Leslie Jarmon (In Memoriam 1952-2009), Faculty Development Specialist and Senior Lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin
• Solar System
• International Spaceflight Center
• NMC Campus
• Disaster Preparedness Training in Second Life
• Second Life - Heart Murmur Sim
• Games in Education
• Bobcat Village: Texas State's Second Life Campus Tour
• Virtual Learning Machinima Videos
• The Second Life Project: An Interview with Douglas Danforth

Learning Tools

• S.L.O.O.D.L.E - Simulation Linked Object Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment
• Blackboard Integration

Interesting Virtual Campuses and Communities (Direct SLurls)

• Educators and Non-Profits in the SL Destination Guide

Non-Profit/ Community

• CHILBO ARTICLE DIRECTORY / Chilbo Community Wiki / Chilbo Town Hall and Plaza - Direct SLurl
• New Media Consortium Campus - Direct SLurl
• Nonprofit Commons - Direct SLurl
• The Science Circle official site / The Science Circle - Shamash - Direct SLurl
• Democracy Island (NYLS) the SIM is not available

University

• Arkansas State University - Direct SLurl*Harvard Law School's Austin Hall I think this region is not Harvard Law School.
• Bowling Green State University Virtual Campus the SIM is not available
• DePaul University, College of Computing and Digital Media - Direct SLurl
• East Carolina University - Direct SLurl
• Northern Illinois University, Glidden Campus - Direct SLurl
• Northern Virginia Community College - Direct SLurl
• Ohio University Campus - Direct SLurl
• Saint Leo University Virtual Campus - Direct SLurl
• Stanford University Libraries - Direct SLurl
• The Open University, UK- Deep Think - Direct SLurl
• University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Learning Technology Center - Direct SLurl
• Rockcliffe University - Direct SLurl / [1]
• University of Edinburgh (Vue) - Direct SLurl
• University of Washington- Virtual Biodome - Direct SLurl

Museums

STEM and Astronomy

• The Exploratorium - Direct SLurl/ The Splo - Direct SLurl
• The Tech Museum of Innovation - Direct SLurl
• Oddprofessor's Museum and Science Center - Direct SLurl (National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester Institute of Technology)
• STEM Island - Direct SLurl (University of the Incarnate Word)
• International Spaceflight Museum - Direct SLurl
• Explorer Island - Direct SLurl (NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
• Spaceport UK - Direct SLurl

Biology and Health

• Genome - Direct SLurl(Texas Wesleyan University, Biology, Genetics)
• Anatomica, American Cancer Society - Direct SLurl
• OSU Medical Center - Direct SLurl (Ohio State University, Testis and Ovary tour)
• Tox Town at Virtual NLM - Direct SLurl

Geology, Oceanography and Natural history

• David Rumsey Maps - Direct SLurl
• Field Studies Centre at Bowness - Direct SLurl) (National Institute of Education, Singapore)
• Museum of Natural History of Vienna - Direct SLurl
• Abyss Observatory at Second Earth 3 - Direct SLurl (JAMSTEC)/ at Farwell - Direct SLurl (National Institute of Education, Singapore)

Social Scinence and Humanity

• The Modern Museum - Direct SLurl (Historical relation of Art, Architecture, Literature, Science & technology, society)
• US Holocaust Museum - Direct SLurl
• Cold War Museum - Direct SLurl
• SL Democide Museum - Direct SLurl (Plush Nonprofit Commons, History of genocides by governments)
• Museum of Sacred Art - Direct SLurl (Kira Institute, Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Daoism, Shintoism, Islam, Judaism)
• The Aho Museum, New Media Consortium - Direct SLurl
• Museum art Nouveau - Direct SLurl
• The Museum of Surrealism - Direct SLurl

Other Science and Health Resources

• Science Related Places in Second Life (Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry, Biology, Clinic, Health, Astronomy, Geology, Oceanography, Archaeology)
• Educational Places in Second Life (Above + Rehabilitation, Art History, Literature, Architecture, Learning resources, creator's resources)
• Worlds of Education - Lesson Plan Database
• Expedition Central - Direct SLurl (Landmarks of Science & Education, Quests, Scifi & Steampunk, International & Exploration, Art & Culture)
• Community Cultural Hub - Direct SLurl (Landmarks of Spiritual, Arts, Countries, Soial Services, Historical, Educational, Others)
• Second Life Health Care Wiki - Direct SLurl
• UC Davis' Virtual Hallucinations - Direct SLurl
• HealthInfo Island - Direct SLurl (Information of over 120 peer support organizations in SL)
• Artsea Muzeum - Direct SLurl (L$ 8 famous paintings in Art history)

Papers for education and museum using VW

• Minocha, Shailey and Reeves, Ahmad (2010) "Design of learning spaces in 3D virtual worlds: an empirical investigation of Second Life", Learning, Media and Technology, Vol. 35, No. 2, 111–137
• Minocha, Shailey and Hardy, Christopher (2011). "Designing navigation and wayfinding in 3D virtual learning spaces", 4th Annual Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference, 17-19 March 2011, Second Life (3D virtual world).
• Wimpenny, katherine, Savin-Baden, Maggi, Mawer, Matt, Steils, Nicole and Tombs, Gemma (2012). "Unpacking frames of reference to inform the design of virtual world learning in higher education", Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 28(Special issue, 3), 522-545
• Nishimura, Hajime, Lim, Kenneth and Koyamada, Koji (2012), "The Abyss Observatory - Designing for Remote Collaboration, Self-directed Discovery and Intuition Development in Multi-user Interactive 3D Virtual Environments", Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, Volume 5, Number 2, Asian Perspectives
• Sequeira, Luis and Morgado, Leonel (2013) "Virtual Archaeology in Second Life and OpenSimulator", Volume 6, Number 1, The Metaverse Assembled
• Oh, Kevin and Nussil, Natalie (2014). "Teacher training in the use of a three-dimensional immersive virtual world: Building understanding through first-hand experiences", Journal of Teaching and Learning with Technology, Vol. 3, No. 1, June 2014, pp. 33 – 58
• Tate, Austin, Hansberger, Jeffrey, Potter, Stephen and Wickler, Gerhard (2014) "Virtual Collaboration Spaces: Bringing Presence to Distributed Collaboration", Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, Volume 7, Number 2, Assembled 2014