Cooperative Extension Second Life Educators

2009-11-12T16:52:13Z

1 Click here for the Second Life Event Calendar
2 Questions about Second Life? e-mail luann.phillips@extension.org
3 HOW TO REGISTER FOR SECOND LIFE
4 What's Happening at eXtension's Second Life Locations?
5 Second Life How-to Articles
6 Global Kids Second Life Curriculum
7 Videos about Second Life
8 Presentations on Second Life
9 eXtension Second Life Plans
10 Meeting Agendas/Notes
11 Land-Grant University Locations in Second Life

Click here for the Second Life Event Calendar

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

HOW TO REGISTER FOR SECOND LIFE

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.

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.

Please share your Second Life Identity

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

Fire Ant Game machinima demo

Family Caregiving Virtual Project

|Family Caregiving blog

Second Life How-to Articles

How to register for Second Life Go to http://join.secondlife.com

eXtension Second Life Roadshow AV and Tech Requirements

Global Kids Second Life Curriculum

Not just for kids! Covers everything an educator or student would need to know to use Second Life, whether on their own or within an educational setting. At the same time, it teaches global literacy skills. Components of the curriculum can be used as hand-outs to develop specific Second Life-specific skills or within a broader educational program designed to teach such subjects as science, filmmaking or literature.

The curriculum is composed of nine sequential “levels.” Each level is composed of modules which, in turn, are composed of individual lesson plans or “missions”. In total there are 163 missions. Free and offered under a Creative Commons license (attribution-noncommercial-share alike). Educators are encouraged to adapt this curriculum in any way they see fit, but always give credit to Global Kids and share significant changes or best practices with other professionals implementing the curriculum at RezEd.org.

GK SL Curriculum Level 1 PDF
GK SL Curriculum Level 2 PDF
GK SL Curriculum Level 3 PDF
GK SL Curriculum Level 4 PDF
GK SL Curriculum Level 5 PDF
GK SL Curriculum Level 6 PDF
GK SL Curriculum Level 7 PDF
GK SL Curriculum Level 8 PDF
GK SL Curriculum Level 9 PDF

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

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

Just added in September, this is the home of virtual "Morrill County", which has two projects in development: its own county extension office, and the Smith-Lever family farm. the rest of the island has open land ready for your ideas.

Bailey Island (Youth Grid)

The Dare To Be You program is on Bailey planning a project! [1]

Some notes on planning for Bailey Island on the Teen Grid in Second Life
To set your SL Client to take you to Teen Second Life, you change it in preferences. Under the edit tab. there's a place to set your start location.

and you can enter an island name there.

Meeting Agendas/Notes

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.

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

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