Cooperative Extension Second Life Educators

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The Virtual State Fair was a tremendous success, with approximately 2000 visitors. We hope that this will become an annual event. Until next time, remember that the fairgrounds is the hub of eXtension activity in Second Life all year long. Come see what is new! And feel welcome to propose a project or hold an event there anytime, just message LuAnn Phillips luann.phillips@extension.org


COME TO THE VIRTUAL STATE FAIR IN SECOND LIFE

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Morrill/131/12/24

2010 Virtual State Fair Information and Schedule

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Contents

Click here for the Second Life Event Calendar

Questions about Second Life? e-mail luann.phillips@extension.org

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HOW TO REGISTER FOR SECOND LIFE

Powerpoint slides with step-by-step instructions to register are here on SlideShare
http://bit.ly/awW1wV

Or, basically...

Go to http://slurl.com/secondlife/Morrill/151/14/24 and click on the orange SIGN UP button. After a brief registration process (it's free!) your new avatar will arrive in the fair office on Morrill Island! Remember, you can always change the appearance of your avatar later, but you can't change your avatar's name, so give that some thought. The signs in the fair office will tell you how to join the Cooperative Extension group, set your home location to Morrill, and help you with some basic orientation.

Once you are there, this video explains your first steps.
First Minutes In Second Life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__Sej_G0Gs8
and this video shows how to move your avatar around in Second Life
3 Ways to Get to Gertrude's Barn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaSPCsBkg-E

Here is some information about Getting Started in Second Life. It can be a bit overwhelming at first! Do not hesitate to email luann.phillips@extension.org with questions or to arrange for some training.

Videos about Second Life

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm96vfC-YY0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfyULLZVFUQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5KajOerENQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSr2YvHxAJ0

Second Life How-to Articles

What's Happening at eXtension's Second Life Locations?


Presentations on Second Life

The Live-Ability House


eXtension Second Life Plans

EduIsland (Mainland shared space)

The Eduisland archepelago is home to dozens of colleges and universities, libraries, and educational organizations. eXtension's parcel includes a building available for meetings. There is a help desk for questions about using Second Life, and a garden walkway with information about the work of Cooperative Extension.

Morrill Island

Home of eXtension's Virtual State Fair where you will find rides, games, and educational displays. Goats, pigs, llamas, poultry, horses and dairy cattle are in the barns, and you can even take a free demo horse for a ride, compliments of AKK Ranch in SL. The Midway Stage is available for you to stream live music into Second Life, just ask us how and we will help you set it up.

There are several large educational exhibits on the fairgrounds, including the Family Caregiving CoP "Live-ability House", The Turf Grass Big Backyard from Penn State, where you can ride a mower and really cut virtual grass, a huge Food Pyramid, the House of Germs, and coming soon a Pest Management pesky critter maze.

Morrill2

This is the home of virtual "Morrill County", which has several projects in development: its own county extension office, the Smith-Lever family farm. the Virtual Health Inspector Game, a laundromat, and the start of a farmers market.

Morrill3 and Morrill4

A new conference center is available for meetings and events. Here are some images of the venue
http://www.slideshare.net/luannphillips/conference-center-2837784

Morrill4 will be the SL home of HorseQuest and an insect genetics project. There is more space on these sims for YOUR project.

Bailey Island (Youth Grid)

  • The Dare To Be You program is on Bailey!

stay tuned for more...

Meeting Archives

Second Life Round-tables are held using Web conferencing at 11 AM SLT (2:00 PM ET). Please add discussion to the Collaborate wiki at http://tinyurl.com/ytsp2s

Second Life Meet-ups: The 2nd and 4th Fridays of every month the CES Second Life educators meet in-world to learn new skills and visit interesting educational builds. The learning part of the meet-ups are led by fellow participants, and are designed to be lightweight and appropriate for all skill levels. Please feel free to add topics next to dates, and to sign-up to lead the learning activity. Meet in Second Life.

2009

National eXtension Conference Mixed Reality Mixer!! May 14, 2009
April 9, 2009
February 12, 2009

2008

December 12, 2008
September 11, 2008
November 14, 2008
September 11, 2008 Recording
August 14, 2008
August 8, 2008 Meetup - Tour of Kansas State's Wildcat Islands
July 10, 2008
June 12, 2008
May 8, 2008
April 10, 2008
March 13, 2008
January 10, 2008

2007

December 13, 2007
November 8, 2007

This is a Connect recording for the eXtension Roundtable meeting, October 4, 2007].NETC08 Preconference

Land-Grant University Locations in Second Life

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