Second+Life+Instructor+Tools

**Second Life Education Website** @http://secondlife.com

**Second Life Features and Capabilities**

Communication

 * Text via chat and/or voice, via a computer microphone.
 * You and your students can set Second Life preferences so that chat conversations are saved to a text file on each user’s computer.
 * Google documents can be shared and edited by multiple people on a prim.
 * TIP: You may want to make the document open to editing by anyone to facilitate quick and easy editing in your Second Life classroom.
 * You may play many types of media in Second Life such as MP4 video or YouTube video.

Media
Teachers can display and navigate Web pages within Second Life.
 * Slide share presentations. []

**Educator Tools for Second Life** Teachers can make their own tools, find free tools, and buy commercial tools.

**Example – Teacher-Created Tools**

**Media Boards** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Create your own media boards and display web based content or uploaded image on them.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Display a website that has clickable links (You can also limit this capability.)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Display online presentations (SlideShare, Google presentation, etc.)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Display a Google Document
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Display a Google form that submits (collect information or quiz students) - TIP: Embed this Google form into a standard web page and then link to the page.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Display a YouTube or Teacher Tube video.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Websites for Additional Ideas**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Second Life's Education Page: []
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">List of Education Sites - Second Life website: []
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Second Life’s Resources for Educators: []
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">SLED Mailing List: []
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">SLED Sample Postings
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">MERLOT
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">MERLOT in Second Life CLIVE Island in Second Life, the first space for MERLOT in a virtual world may be found at __ http ____ : ____ slurl ____ . ____ com ____ / ____ secondlife ____ / ____ clive ____ /81/174/55/ __, while the CLIVE MERLOT space on the web is __ http ____ : ____ clive ____ . ____ merlot ____ . ____ org ____ / ____ index ____ . ____ html __ . If you have questions or would like more information, please contact Jonathon Richter: jrichter@uoregon.edu
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> MERLOT Second Life Learning Objects : []


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Info Island – Way with Words: []
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Transformational Learning; []
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Virtual Olivia: SL Teleport Sites and SL Related Links: []
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">New Media Consortium: The New Media Consortium has created the NMC Campus to further the efforts of teaching, learning, communication in virtual space. []
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">VIRTLANTIS: A Free Resource & Open Community for Virtual Language Learning - [] [NOTE: Don’t log in to the webpage. Just teleport to the Second Life location.]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">RezEd, the online hub for practitioners using virtual worlds: []
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Virtual Worlds Educational Round Table: [] This is a meeting of Educators that happens most Thursday nights at 4:30 pm Central time.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">EdTech Island: Go here for free teacher stuff!
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Open to public. Sponsored by Boise State University, supporting teachers; education, teaching, sandbox, teacher, educational technology, teach, educator, build, building, tutorials, builders, builder, free scripts, textures, sounds, free. []


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Second Life Educator’s mailing list: []

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Tools for use in Second Life**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Builder Tools**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Google Sketchup and Sketchlife
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Google Sketchup - []
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Sketchlife is a system which allows you to build for Second Life using SketchUp.- []
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Simple videoconferencing in Second Life using Gmail video chat - []
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Texture Tools - []

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Delivery Pre-Scripted Text Presentations/Talks**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Speak Easy HUD – Easy way to give pre-scripted talks - EdTech Island – Teacher Education in Virtual Worlds - []
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Teacher's Helper - [] ($2.22 USD)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Poll the Audience**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Poll Everywhere: [] - instead of clickers, students text (cell phone text) their response to your multiple choice questions. There is also an option for students to vote via the web. Free for an audience of up to 30 people. Works well within Second Life.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Other Tool Tutorials and Resources**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Sec Life Tools/Tutorials - []
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Second life Toolbox: 50+ Resources for Second life - []

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Equation Editors**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> [] - has an equation editor.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Video** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Note**: The video viewing in SL is typically individual. Each student typically has to click the play media button at the same time. If you coordinate the video on then everyone will be finished watching at somewhat the same time.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">● Play Recorded Video

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">YouTube.com - works
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Teacher Tube - []

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">● Stream Live Video
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> ■ Example #1: This person put the streaming video on the face of a cube and then chose to wear the cube. The instructor wanted his facial expressions to be streamed, too....not just his voice. [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> ■ Example #2: [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> ■ Example #3: [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> ■ Example - [] - This example shows several media screens two of which are streaming video at the same time. Remember to use the SL audio.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Livestream – Stream Live Video of Second Life classroom (or other classrooms) [] - Eduverse Spaces.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">uStream - __ www ____ . ____ ustream ____ . ____ tv __- allows you to stream live or recorded video.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">blip.tv

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Collaboration Boards and Documents**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Google Docs - works

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Second Life Links to Free Tools** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">EdTech Island – Teacher Education in Virtual Worlds - []
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Survey Guru
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Flip Board Viewer
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Voting System
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Registration Station
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Free Script Generator
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Speak Easy HUD – Easy way to give pre-scripted talks.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">ThinC Book tutorial

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Search Engines or Directories for Virtual Worlds**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">ThreadMap - []
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">SL7B (Second Life 7th Birthday Bash) - []