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Second Life in Education

In which Vance attempts to make sense of an overwhelming amount of information on transformative technologies with huge potential for education

UPDATED -- Vance's multimedia brainstorming wiki prepared in March 2008 in preparation for an article on Second Life for the journal:The Linguist; here -- http://sl2ndchance.pbwiki.com

Contents.

• Navigating in-world and Help Resources
• EduNation: Where Webheads hang out
• Why should educators bother with SL? Rationale for and against
• Notable projects and implementations
• Biography and other resources

I have developed the resources given here into a number of articles and presentations. The process of preparing the first pair of articles was done in the context of a wiki, here: http://webheadslink.wikispaces.com/. My colleagues in webheads were invited to contribute to this wiki, and there is nothing to prevent others from doing so, as there is no password. In my TESL-EJ online article I invited people to respond at this wiki.

• The first article appeared 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
• The second article entitled Second life and online collaboration through peer to peer distributed learning networks was submitted to the Proceedings of the METSMaC Conference http://metsmac.org to be held in Abu Dhabi March 17-19, 2007. The proceedings should be published for distribution at the conference and it's most current online version is here: http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/metsmac/metsmac_secondlife.htm
• In March 2007 I created a blog posting referencing Second Life here: http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2007/03/unarticle.html
• The blog posting was published as: Stevens, Vance. (2007). Unarticle: Unleashing the tranformative power of the unorganized Internet. TESL-EJ, Volume 10, Number 4: http://www.tesl-ej.org/ej40/int.html
• In March 2007 I gave a pair of presentations on Second Life. An annotated rendition of the slides presented at those talks appears here: http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/tesol/arabia2007/00.htm

Copyright 2007 by Vance Stevens
under Creative Commons License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/

August 13, 2007

Mirrors: This page is available at:

• http://www.vancestevens.com/secondlife_edu.htm
• http://www.geocities.com/vance_stevens/secondlife_edu.htm
• http://www.prof2000.pt/users/vstevens/secondlife_edu.htm