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I'm Busy Enough... What Do I Need a Second Life For? 



presentation at the eLearning Guild 2008 Annual Gathering

Second Life, and virtual worlds in general, are high on the hype curve this year. While it’s easy to point fingers at the well-known failed corporate attempts to use these environments, the sheer number of people actively involved, the time they spend in virtual worlds, and the intense nature of the experience suggest it has a place for e-Learning. Second Life is an easy target for shoot-from-the-hip media articles, and it’s proponents often come off as religious zealots.
 
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Slide 1: I'm Busy Enough... What Do I Need a Second Life For? Alan Levine New Media Consortium
Slide 2: Sans handout http://sl.nmc.org/wiki/Busy_Second_Life eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008
Slide 3: eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008
Slide 4: eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008
Slide 5: eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008
Slide 6: eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008
Slide 7: http://vworld.fas.org/ eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008
Slide 8: http://metaversed.com/25-apr-2007/gartner-2011-80-internet-users-will-have-second-life eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008
Slide 9: eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008 http://www.boingboing.net/2007/10/21/more-us-warcraft-pla.html
Slide 10: Levine’s Law Start with the #@+^ demo!
Slide 11: Jacob Hall, NMC Campus in Second Life eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008
Slide 12: http://valleywag.com/373678/are-second-life-users-on-drugs eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008
Slide 13: Add “get a first life” image http://www.getafirstlife.com/ eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008
Slide 14: FoDS eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008
Slide 15: Field of Dreams Syndrome eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008
Slide 16: Congress? http://tinyurl.com/2j95hb eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008
Slide 17: "Actually, maybe Congress should get an online life. In Second Life, participants create fake personas and spend endless hours interacting in a fantasy world with few tangible results to show for it -- kind of like, well, Congress." eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/01/AR2008040102372.html
Slide 18: eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008
Slide 19: Those People & Time QuickTimeª and a H.264 decompressor are needed to see this picture. Henry Jenkins, SXSW 2008 eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008
Slide 20: The Skeptics eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008
Slide 21: The Gamer The Graphics SUCK! eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008
Slide 22: The Gamer There’s nothing to do. eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008
Slide 23: The Fearful Too weird! I got chased by a giant penis eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008
Slide 24: The Boss How do I make money? eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008
Slide 25: The Traditionalist I can do that in a discussion board eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008
Slide 26: http://www.nmc.org/ eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008
Slide 27: eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008
Slide 28: NMC Campus Launches Jan 2006 http://sl.nmc.org/2006/06/12/seriously-engaging-movie/ eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008
Slide 29: eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008 http://sl.nmc.org/2006/07/04/third-time-charm/
Slide 30: eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008
Slide 31: eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008
Slide 32: http://virtualworlds.nmc.org/ eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008
Slide 33: Social Spaces eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008
Slide 34: Visceral Behind every avatar is a real person
Slide 35: Visceral Behind every avatar is a real person
Slide 36: Visceral Behind every avatar is a real person
Slide 37: Let’s Go in… eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008 NMC Create SL Account http://sl.nmc.org/join
Slide 38: Although I'm Busy... What Might I do with a Second Life? http://sl.nmc.org/

   
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