I'm done I'm done I'm done!

I just finished up my report. I'm keeping my fingers cross I've done everything correctly. I found out a lot about Second Life, that's for sure! I'm now going to let my report ferment overnight and go back and read it tomorrow to find all my stupid mistakes, like missed words. I love it when I do that. It makes me sound like Yoda. Report lot of work, tired I am.

Bloggily yours,
Jill

Winding up

I'm putting it all together this week. It's coming together nicely. There is a lot of work involved, that's for sure. The using the advanced search features really helped refine my search. I'm slightly concerned that I'm not putting the project together properly, but I'm following the instructions to the last letter, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed. I'm over half done writing the final paper. I hope to have it completed by Wednesday, I'll let sit over night and re-read Thursday. Anyway, that's my plan, the plan is mine...

Deep Search - Good Results!

Google Scholar Search
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How I'm searching
Advance Results with "distance education" and exact phrase "Second Life"

Your Second Life is Ready
http://www.nr.edu/itp195/articles/web-captures/SecondLife-Popular-Science-Magazine-Sep06.pdf

http://statewideit.iu.edu/resources/101_SL_Apps.pdf
101 Uses for Second Life in the College Classroom

http://tesl-ej.org/ej39/int.html
Second Life in Education and Language Learning

http://www.simteach.com/SLCC06/slcc2006-proceedings.pdf#page=34
SECOND LIFE AS AN EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT: A STUDENT
PERSPECTIVE

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How I'm searching
Advanced Results with basic "All Word" match

Life-Squared
http://documents.stanford.edu/MichaelShanks/36


Minds on Fire:
Open Education, the Long Tail,
and Learning 2.0
http://foruminnova.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/minds_on_fire.pdf

Situated Learning in Virtual Worlds:
The Learning Ecology of Second Life
http://www.adulterc.org/Proceedings/2006/Proceedings/Hayes.pdf


Exploring Virtual Librarianship: Second Life Library 2.0
http://www.infoisland.org/drupal/files/SLL20-IRSQ.pdf


Evaluation of a Pilot Use of
Second Life in an English Course:
http://web3.cc.utexas.edu/academic/mec/publication/pdf/fulltext/SecondLife.pdf


Virtual Copyright: The Applicability and
Ownership of Copyright in Second Life
http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1017&context=dlps_fac_pub


Second Life: an overview of the potential of 3-D virtual worlds in medical and health education
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118001785/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0

Whose on Third in Second Life
http://basie.exp.sis.pitt.edu/1904/1/Who's_On_Third.pdf

Eric Search Results
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How I'm searching
Advanced Search Results


Basic Search Results:

Best Results

• Educators Get a "Second Life" (EJ798512)
• Immersive Education" Submerges Students in Online Worlds Made for Learning (EJ783425)
• Understanding Project-Based Learning in Second Life with a Pedagogy, Training, and Assessment Trio (EJ810419)
• Proceedings of the Second Life Education Workshop, Part of the Second Life Community Convention (1st, San Francisco, California, August 18-20, 2006) (ED493670)
• The Homeless Professor in Second Life (EJ787643)
• . A Second Life for Distance Learning (ED501107)
• Inside Linden Lab: Second Life [TM] for Educators (EJ803590)
• New Directions in CALL: An Objective Introduction to Second Life (EJ809380)

• Multi-User Virtual Environments for Education and Training? A Critical Review of "Second Life" (EJ792161)

• . Web 2.0, Synthetic Immersive Environments, and Mobile Resources for Language Education
• Virtual Worlds? "Outlook Good" (EJ810817)
• Shared Electronic Spaces in the Classroom: Copyright, Privacy, and Guidelines (EJ774633)

(EJ809379)

Challenging Week

This week has been rough. I have a huge project for work due by Tuesday night, I was only given notice about it on Wednesday, so I've been working all weekend on that. This is usually my homework time. Since THAT project is my bread and butter it has priority. Plus I have a really bad cold - which really STINKS. My time is cut in two because I have to stop and blow my nose, sneeze, cough lungs out or just stare mindlessly at the computer screen because I'm in a Tylenol Sinus induced stupor.

I'm still struggling with 2nd Life. I really don't like it all. It seems really rather clunky to me. I had my kids play with it too, thinking they're probably quicker at picking up the gaming features than I am. They did have a little more success but they didn't like it either. I sat by them while they did it (because not all the people in Second Life play nice) and they seemed to struggle with the same basic functionality I did. My conclusion is pretty much the same. I think we're a ways off using this program as a true virtual classroom. That being said I do think there is something to be offered in terms of giving people some sort of visual identity in the classroom. An icon of sorts that travels with them wherever they are working with in the class.

Another HUGE flaw with Second Life is the installation eats up a huge amount of hard drive space. That would be a real drawback of students, especially if they were only using it in one class.

Interestingly, many, many colleges and universities have sites on 2nd Life as well as a number of course management companies. The project that I'm working on for my first life (ha) is in the Angel Platform - they too have 2nd Life site.

Well I'm on vacation next week and I'm hoping to get the bulk of my project done then (Whoopee!). If you're reading my post - I hope you have a great holiday! Enjoy your Thanksgiving!
signing off - Jill

Off and running

I've got a few good leads....

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a749174136~db=all

http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=EJ778625&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=EJ778625

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mcb/240/2007/00000035/00000001/art00006

Wikipedia to the rescue!

http://docenti.lett.unisi.it/files/11/13/4/7/Second_Life___Wikipedia__the_free_encyclopedia.pdf

What would I do without Wikipedia? This so VERY helpful and my search efforts.

Second Life Seminar

I've signed up for access to http://secondlifegrid.net/slfe/education-use-virtual-world\
Using Virtual Worlds in Education Programs - I will use this a one of my resources. I'm not very confident in moving around. We'll see how it goes.