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By: K. Walsh

K. Walsh — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:16:06 +0000

Thanks for the question Greg – I guess it all comes down to what your objectives are. If an instructor wants to just display SL worlds on a screen as a resource (which provides information and experience that often can’t be as effectively conveyed with other tools), then the time required isn’t too much (instructor just needs to get up to speed in navigating). If a group of students is going to use SL to ‘tour’, they all need to understand it. The highest level of work involved building out SL worlds – then it gets pretty huge.

Hope that helps to answer your question.

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:11:45 +0000

And now there are a variety of open source virtual world alternatives like Opensim ,OpenCobalt, Edusim, & Wonderland …. its evolving quickly

By: Greg Limperis

Greg Limperis — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:25:06 +0000

Rob,

I loved this blog posting on SL. It was ver informative and helped save me a ton of time in evaluating it. SOunds like it takes way more time than I care or can put into it. My question is, is all of this extra time invested worth it or can the same objective be achieved in other ways quicker and cheeper?

By: Marie Crandell

Marie Crandell — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:30:46 +0000

Hi Kelly

Yes, SL has some wonderful uses for education, and is frequently improved by Linden Lab.

The map functionality does have its’ limitations. You can use SL Events which allows land-owners to post details of event they are hosting, http://secondlife.com/events/ and these are categorized e.g. you can filter the list by ‘education’. The definition may be open to interpretation , but you may find some interesting events there to aid your research. Best regards, Marie.

By: K. Walsh

K. Walsh — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:51:33 +0000

Thanks Rob. Cool effort you folks have going there – thanks for the information about it. I’ll be stopping back by the online version of The Tech as I continue this effort!

By: Eileen Clegg

Eileen Clegg — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:41:24 +0000

This is fabulous – thanks for doing this and putting the Engelbart mural in!

By: Rob Stephenson

Rob Stephenson — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:48:36 +0000

Very nice intro. I agree that SL would benefit from more “travel guides” or a SL-equivalent of Google. I’m flattered you mentioned The Tech Virtual as one of your examples. I’d like to add that The Tech’s approach to education is what might be called Design Challenge Learning. At our islands in the Main Grid and Teen Grid we offer free classes on building and scripting, and invite interested visitors to enter design challenges to build virtual museum exhibits. We will choose the best of these and build them for the real life Tech Museum in San Jose, CA, awarding their authors cash prizes in the process. Several university classes have participated in these challenges (and even won!), and we hope many more will do so. For more information, see the Web link above – thetechvirtual.org.