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=Second Life in Education and Language Learning=

Hi folks, it is unlikely anyone will want to use this space any longer so I have locked it down (June 2007). If you want to write here you'll have to ask Vance or Webhead Link.

One reason I want to close it off is I want to use this space to store some files (give them urls) and I don't want anyone messing with my stuff here and maybe mussing up my links elsewhere. Meanwhile here's a nice short listen: and some context: http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2007/06/multiliterate-autonomous-learner-and.html


 * //Hi, Vance again. Happy New Year. The article has by now been published as://**

Stevens, Vance. (2006). Second Life in Education and Language Learning. TESL-EJ, Volume 10, Number 3: http://www.tesl-ej.org/ej39/int.html. In the published article I invited readers to leave comments. If you are visiting as a result of that invitation, please put your reply between the lines (right under here) so we'll know if someone has visited.

VISITOR'S greeting: January 4, 07: Hi, Sus Nyrop, another Webhead was here. Your article is great reading! I apologize for being late. December was a very busy month for me. I've written a quick page here about some SL reflections from my own frist hand view. More soon, yours SusNy Foss

Back to Vance: Thanks for your comments Sus. It's always nice to hear your 'voice'. - Vance, Jan 7 '07

Meanwhile, I've created another version of my article aimed less at language learning and more directed at a target audience of Maths, Sciences, and Engineering teachers; here: http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/metsmac/metsmac_secondlife.htm

I wrote Wayne McPhail, who does the podcasts "Who's on Second" and asked if I could use my audacity clip of his intro to his first episode in my websites, and he agreed. I needed a place to park the audio so I uploaded the file here embedded it;

Also, I linked to the file above from my notes page: http://www.geocities.com/vance_stevens/secondlife_edu.htm

Now I'm going through and removing from this space whatever is already at the links above.

Thanks everyone who has helped by contributing. - Vance

> 1) 101 Uses for Second Life in the College Classroom .http://trumpy.cs.elon.edu/metaverse/gst364Win2005/handout.html > 2)The Educational Possibilities of a Massively Multiplayer Virtual World > http://www2.kumc.edu/netlearning/SLEDUCAUSESW2005/SLPresentationOutline.htm > 3)BlogHud - the blogging system of Second Life http://bloghud.com/ > 4) Media about Second Life: > List of links: http://schome.open.ac.uk/wikiworks/index.php/Media_about_Second_Life > A Story to Good to Check (questioning SL's official figures) http://valleywag.com/tech/second-life/a-story-too-good-to-check-221252.php > Good bye Cruel World (article from the Guardian) > http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1933933,00.html > The duplicitous Inhabitants of Second Life (7 days in Second Life - narrative in the Guardian) > http://technology.guardian.co.uk/online/insideit/story/0,,1954333,00.html > Flickr Second Life screenshots > http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/secondlife/ > 3 Links for beginners: > 1. Getting Started in Second Life > http://www.nmc.org/campuswiki/index.php/Getting_Started > 2. Video on constructing objects tutorial > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVSzh_QTE00 > 3. Absolute Beginners Guide to Second Life > http://www.combinedstory.com/tutorials.html > Two nice links: > 1. My Teaching Semester in Second Life > http://www.slatenight.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=107&Itemid=40 > 2. Proceedings of the Second Life Education Workshop, Part of the Second Life Community Convention -2006 http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2/content_storage_01/0000000b/80/35/24/5a.pdf
 * //I have added a link to Peter Twinning's Open University project Schome - very interesting interaction going in there and also a link to short movie "NMC Campus Seriously Engaging" and here are some more links that can be useful for educators (Bee)//
 * Add this study: Peterson, Mark (2006). Learner Interaction Management in an Avatar and Chat-based Virtual World. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 19.1, p79~103. (Venny)

Vance reports: I'm a bit miffed at this wiki. I was chatting with Bee and taking down some really cool links and pasting them in the wiki. I thought I was saving as I went. Finally as our chat wound down I did a final save and turned to other windows. Eventually I found my way back to this window. I discovered the wiki had not saved but was waiting for me to type in a word from one of those anti-spam diagrams. I typed in the word, hit enter, but too late. The program had already pegged me as a spammer due to lag time I guess. An hour and a half\s work disappeared and had to be recovered from my YM instand message chat. I'm suddenly disillusioned with my wiki :-((

I notice that Venny and Bee both came in of their own accord and pasted in the missing links. What a community!!