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Second Life for education resources like blogs, wikis, research articles, links, classes, group that can be joined, etc.

 

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Second Life Section at the ICT4LT site  Resources  Lots of information about language learning and teaching in SL. Many useful links to websites, blogs, wikis, Nings, articles and books. Regularly edited and added to by Graham Davies (Groovy Winkler in SL).  ICT4LT website Section 14.2.1 of Module 1.5.
Educational Frontiers: Learning in a Virtual World Article Report on experience  in teaching Blended class at University level. Part of at the SLeducause Constituent Group meetings. (Many more articles to find from there)

Second Life Educational Resources

 

Collection of LMs, information, news, etc.

Second Life for Education

 

A slide presentation about SL for education. Some other virtual worlds are also mentioned at the beginning.

Foreign Language Learning in Second Life and the Implications for Resource Provison in Academic Libraries Report

Stefanie Hundsberger (2009)

arcadia@cambridge: rethinking the role of the research library in a digital age

http://arcadiaproject.lib.cam.ac.uk

     
     
     
     
     
     
Virtual Worlds Users' Perceptions of Second Life Paper

 VIRTUAL WORLDS USERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF LEARNING 

– AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF SECOND LIFE - 

Susana de Almeida 

José Lagarto 

Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal 

Designing Oral Participation in Second Life – A Comparative Study of Two Language Proficiency Courses  Article 

Deutschmann, M., L. Panichi, J. Molka-Danielsson (in print 2009). ReCall 21(2)

Talking into empty space? - Signalling involvement in a virtual language classroom in Second Life  Article 

Deutschmann, M. & L. Panichi (forthcoming 2009) ALA Journal special issue 2009

Virtual worlds, language learning and intercultural exchange

Article

Panichi, L., Deutschmann, M & J. Molka-Danielsson. In Helm, F. & S. Guth. Telecollaboration 2.0 for Language and Intercultural Learning. Series Editors: Melinda Dooly and Robert O’Dowd. Peter Lang publishers.

Starting a Second Life Article by Nergiz Kern, original in ETp issue 61, p. 57-59, N. K. describes how she became a virtual (lang.) teacher (and her first course).
Teaching and Learning in Second Life - experience from the KAMIMO project (pdf) Article Includes David Richardson's report on his English course in SL on KAMIMO (also see book about this project on this list)

http://www.sloog.org

Landmarks

Educational LMs (residents can add LMs by using a free HUD).

 

Streaming Video in Second Life Tutorial

Link for streaming Video in SL

http://www.slthingstodo.com

Landmarks 

A blog about interesting places to visit in SL (including pictures)

Second Life Resources

Resources

Building, scripting, textures, resources, in-world tools, SL in education, etc.

LSL_Portal

Tutorial 

Linden Scripting Language (LSL) portal

http://sloodle.org/

Tool 

Sloodle integrates the Second Life® multi-user virtual environment and the Moodle learning-management system. (Open Source) 

Video_Tutorials

Tutorial  Official and resident video tutorials in Second Life from the Second Life wiki: from basic to technical.
Streaming_Music Tutorial  Streaming music in SL from your own computer or from an Online Radio Station. Watch the tutorials. Very useful (alicia)
http://www.vollee.com/secondlife   Second LIfe on your MOBILE!!! (alicia)

Podcast (mp3 link towards the end of the page) 

Transripct of the podcast 

 

  A LindenLab podcast about education in SL, a lot of interesting links.
http://snurl.com/2eh1n   

Excellent blog with interesting ideas and links to get going shared projects.

The post Wiki Roles for Shared Projects caught my attention.

 

http://snurl.com/boisestateun

 

Teacher development 10 Challenges & Solutions to Teaching in SL
http://snurl.com/slforedu   

The Educational Possibilities of SL - a presentation incl links to videos

http://snurl.com/vanceaboutsl  Article Articles about SL in education by Vance Stevens 
Programming in SL Tutorial  Script tutorial for Second LIfe (LSL) including a library of scripts
Learning to teach in Second Life Teacher development "a summary of the things that we found out by teaching 4 sessions in Second Life between November 2007 and March 2008, as part of the ‘Learning from Social Worlds"
BestPractices.pdf Teacher development

Global Kids, Inc.’s

Best Practices in Using Virtual Worlds For Education

Annotated bibliography Resources  An annotated bibliography of Second Life educational resources, articles, etc. online

SLED Events in SL

  Calendar Events in Second Life. Very useful. Monthly updated (alicia)
http://arianeb.com/secondlife.htm Tutorial  A useful site if you want to change your appearance or your walk - for 50L   [Dennis]
http://simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Institutions_and_Organizations_in_SL
  Long list of orgnisations - mostly academic - and instituti8ons in SL. [Dennis]
http://colanmc.siu.edu/virtualworlds/ Articles 

CALICO - Collection of links and articles related to 

language teaching in virtual worlds

Machinima
 
  Machimina wiki. Suggested by Dennis. Tks! (alicia)
Second Life Resources (free) Resources A collection of free resources for teachers.
SL Blog - Tip of the week - Video Tutorial  How to run multiple viewers at the same time and when you might want to do that.
SL Literature Review  Research 

Engaging with SL - Real Life education in SL for adult learners (tertiary education) New Zealand 

Play Youtube videos in SL  Tutorial  To be able to play almost any video in SL from You Tube, Great resources for our teaching!
(alicia) 
Virtual Worlds in Education  Bookmarks  Nick's del.icio.us bookmarks about Virtual Worlds in Education 
Virtual Worlds in Langguage Edu  Bookmarks  Nick's del.icio.us bookmarks about VW in Language Edu. 
Foreign Language Exchange in a VW  Paper  An intercultural task-based learning in event by Aaron Patrick Campbell, 2003 
SLanguages Conference for Language Education in Virtual Worlds Event SLanguages is the conference for virtual world language education.  It is held annually in Second Life.
slanguages.wikispaces.com Resource SLanguages resources page (now as a wiki) - has videos and papers regarding virtual world language education.
Pathfinder Linden wiki Resource Great Second LIfe LInks
How to create comics in Second LIfe Resource How to introduce fun in Second LIfe. Good por communicative activities. Follow the links in the page
SL Roundtable text chats Chat Meetings Useful chat meetings where different Educational topics are presented. Special Guests are also invited frequently.A site that's updated weekly.Meeting are at 2.30 pm every Tuesday.
How can 3D Virtual Worlds Contribute to Language Learning  Paper  Paper presented at WorldCALL 2008 Conference, Japan (by Ton Koenrad)
Teaching Languages in a Virtual World Paper This article explores the development of a course for teaching a language in a virtual world. In particular we evaluate the course entitled, “Social English for Doctoral Students” that is in progress in the fall semester of 2007. (J. Molka-Danielsen, M. Deutschmann, D. Richardson, B. Carter, Ph.D)
Learning and Teaching in the Virtual World of Second Life  Book  by J. Molka-Danielsen, M. Deutschmann:  This book is based on the first Scandinavian project to experiment with the design and testing of teaching platforms for life long learning in SL 
Immersive Learning and Assessment with QuizHUD (side project of SLOODLE) Paper  Peter R. Bloomfield, Daniel Livingstone

School of Computing

University of the West of Scotland

Paisley, Scotland 
Evaluation of a Pilot Use of Second Life in an English Course 2006 - 2007 Paper 

 Tomoko Traphagan PhD, The University of Texas at Austin 

 

Philip Rosedale on Second Life
TED talk Why build a virtual world? Philip Rosedale (Philip Linden) talks about the virtual society he founded, Second Life, and its underpinnings in human creativity. It's a place so different that anything could happen.

 

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Nergiz Kern said

at 5:06 pm on Dec 21, 2008

I've started shortening the links in the left column so that people with small laptop or other mobile device screens can view the tables without having to scroll. I'd appreciate your help in doing this here and the other pages with tables.
If you cannot come up with a meaningful name (e. g. by using the title of what you are referring to), create a tinyurl or snurl.
Always check whether your links work.
Thanks!

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Nergiz Kern said

at 3:31 am on Dec 22, 2008

Please also add category names to your entry. The table can be sorted alphabetically according to category, link or description (Many thanks to Steve T.)

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Nergiz Kern said

at 3:52 am on Dec 22, 2008

OK. Finished with shortening the Urls in this table. Now, someone please change the width of the Description column. It seems it has a fixed width and I don't know how to change that.

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barbitta@... said

at 1:19 pm on Dec 22, 2008

Hi Nergiz! You've worked a lot on this!. I'd rather subdivide it with titles as you mentioned not add other links, if you really want to give more guidelines to the ones who enter according to their level of knowledge. Do you agree?

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Nergiz Kern said

at 1:37 pm on Dec 22, 2008

Alicia, instead of titles we have the categories. To have titles, you would have to create a table of contents. We discussed this with Steve and categories seemed to be the best/easiest solution. The table/columns can be sorted alphabetically from A-Z and from Z-A by clicking on the column's name.

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Nergiz Kern said

at 1:38 pm on Dec 22, 2008

Yay, I've figured out how to change the width of the table (Edit-> Source)! :-)

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Nergiz Kern said

at 1:44 pm on Dec 22, 2008

Beware!!! Just found out that alphabetical sorting only works properly if ***all*** the category words either start with a capital letter or a small letter (not when they are mixed: tools Tools).

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barbitta@... said

at 2:02 pm on Dec 22, 2008

Nergiz, my comment was based on what was written at the top in orange regarding helping decide if we should create a different page for 'Beginner's' tutorials. Maybe this comment is not new and I did not have time to read about it before.So, based on what it says my idea was, subdividing the links by adding subtitles in between : Beginners - Advanced tutorials. Has this already been sort out or is still proposed? I love the idea of the categories, but guess as it's been proposed, some of them can be for more advanced learners than others.

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Nergiz Kern said

at 12:36 am on Dec 23, 2008

Ah, sorry, Alicia. Just re-read what I had written there (it's been a while). We already have a page for Beginners with links to tutorials, freebie shops, etc. see here: http://snurl.com/90ckh My question was whether we should have a similar page (same layout) for Advanced SL users and delete the tutorials from this table and add them there.

But thinking about it again, I don't like that idea any more because I think that would again bring up the question where to post links (here or on the Advanced Users page). So let's keep things as they are. OK?

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barbitta@... said

at 12:41 am on Dec 23, 2008

Yes! No problem about it. Shall we remove what's on top then?

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Nergiz Kern said

at 3:04 am on Dec 23, 2008

Yes, will do that right away! Should have done that earlier :-)

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Nick Noakes said

at 5:13 am on Dec 23, 2008

Nergiz I have lots of delicious links related to SL, some are virtualworlds_education (i.e virtualworlds_ ...) others are secondlife_ ...

Nick

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barbitta@... said

at 5:36 am on Dec 23, 2008


Nick!...we'll be happy if you can share them!... Do you have them separately so as to identify them?

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Nick Noakes said

at 5:40 am on Dec 23, 2008

you just go to delicious and search for those tags or you can go to them via my delicious account at http://delicious.com/nnoakes

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Nergiz Kern said

at 1:18 pm on Dec 23, 2008

Wonderful Nick! I had never thought about adding del.icio.us or Diigo bookmarks here because we started out with individual links that we had read and found useful. Thinking about it, it might be even a better idea to collect these links in one of the two bookmarking services. But I am reluctant to create yet another SLexperiments group that people have to join and yet another page to go.
I've added your links but, Nick, you are a member here, so go ahead and add anything you think is useful to any of the pages here.
Thanks!

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Nergiz Kern said

at 7:14 pm on Nov 5, 2009

Somehow the table lost the alphabetical ordering function. Does anybody know how to repair that?

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