Group Project
Group members have the chance to participate in something unique and helpful for instructors on the Kirkwood island. We're putting together a directory of educational Second Life locations on the second floor of the new building by the sandbox. It's a collection of signs with teleports to educational places organized using the Dewey Decimal System. By using this familiar system, even instructors new to Second Life can find educational content for their field of study easily.
Right now if a visitor clicks on a sign they receive a teleport to the location. This is helpful, but we want to make it even better. That's where you come in. We are asking members to lend their expertise in their field of study by writing a short "tour guide" note card to be placed in each sign. Write directions that visitors can follow when they arrive at the new location. Where should they go? What are the "must see" areas of the location? How do you think it might be useful in the classroom?
To participate, identify an educational site you've visited or choose from the selections on the second floor of the building. Write a notecard and give it to Alan Peterka or myself to include in the collection. (If you identify your own location, please give us a teleport and snapshot also.) We're asking members to try and review one educational location per week if you can.
LIST OF LOCATIONS AND CONTRIBUTORS:
000 Computer Science and Information
American Library Association = Sara Scheib, Emerging Technologies Librarian
Campus: Second Life
Dell Island = Jim Trepka, Electronics Engineering Technology Instructor
EdTech Island
ICT Library
Info Island = Sara Scheib, Emerging Technologies Librarian
ISTE Island = Jan Robertson, Dept. Coordinator, Distance Learning ICN/KTS
New Media Consortium Orientation
Nonprofit Commons
100 Philosophy and Psychology
Blazing Star Masonic Island
Democracy Island
Museum of Philosophy
200 Religion
Buddhism: 8-Fold Path
Christianity: Bible Islands
Hindu: Divine Mother
Islam Online
Mormon Island
Peach Park (on Info Island)
Second Life Israel
300 Social Sciences
Social Simulation Research Lab
400 Languages
Cypris Village (English Language Aquisition)
English Village (English Language Aquisition)
ESL Second Life (English Language Aquisition)
Goethe-Institut (free German language courses)
Institute Espanol (learn Spanish)
Language Lab (English Language Aquisition)
500 Science and Mathematics
Really Engaging Accounting
International Year of Astronomy (
Astronomy (University of Denver Science School)
Genome Island = Greg Petersen, Biotechnology Instructor
Health Info Island
Heart Murmur Sim
International Spaceflight Museum
NOAA = Jim Trepka, Electronics Engineering Technology Instructor
Science Friday
SploLand
US Davis Virtual Hallucinations
Virtual Ability Island
600 Technology and Applied Sciences
Abyss Museum
Augmented Reality Island (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Etopia Eco Village
IEEE Island (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
NASA CoLAB
Svarga: Artificial Life
Weather Channel
700 Arts and Recreation
Garden of Da Vinci
Frank Lloyd Wright Museum of Second Life
Kaaos Effect
MadPea Productions
Muse Isle
Pot Healer Adventure
Second Life Chess and Sudoku
Second Louvre Museum = Rod Caszatt, Graphic Designer, Marketing Services
Sistine Chapel (Vassar Island) = Jed Peterson, Distance Learning Instructor
800 Literature
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Bradburyville
Rachelville (children's literature)
Tintern Abby (William Wordsworth Poetry)
900 History, Geography and Biography
David Rumsey Maps
Great Wall of China = Alan Peterka, Coordinator and Instructional Designer, Distance Learning
Land of Lincoln
Mexico
Okapi Island (Catalhoyuk, Turkey archeology site)
Paris 1900 = Sara Scheib, Emerging Technologies Librarian
Red Square, Moscow
Renaissance Island
Themiskyra (Egyptian Temple of ISIS)
Virtual Bucharest
Newcomer Friendly Locations
Calendon Oxbridge Orientation Area = Kit Umscheid, Graphic Designer, Marketing Services
Hyles Second Living = Kit Umscheid, Graphic Designer, Marketing Services
Linden Village = Kit Umscheid, Graphic Designer, Marketing Services
New Citizens Inc. = Kit Umscheid, Graphic Designer, Marketing Services
Virtual Ability Orientation Area = Kit Umscheid, Graphic Designer, Marketing Services
