Second Life Faculty Workshop Handout

Handout

Second Life Resources for Educators

There are many educators using Second Life in their online and blended classes. The following resources are good places to start exploring Second Life on your own:
http://www.secondlife.com
http://rayschroder.googlepages.com/secondlife
http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Second_Life_Education_
http://sleducation.wikispaces.com/
http://www.rezed.org
http://homepages.uc.edu/secondlife/index.php/Site/

Technical Considerations

This link will take you to a page which will show you the minimum requirements for running Second Life on Windows or MAC.

System Requirements for Second Life


The following link will take you to a page on Second Life
which will allow you to check your bandwidth, determine packet loss issues and verify you have the correct video card.

Second Life Bandwidth Checker

Overview of Second Life in Education

Listen to the following interview I conducted with Sarah Robbins (intellagirl Tully in Second Life). Sarah is a PhD candidate in Rhetoric at Ball State University where she has been teaching online and on campus for almost ten years. She teaches part of one of her courses in Second Life.

Click here to get your own player.

Second Life Knowledge Base Articles

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/KB_Article_of_the_Week

Tutorials

http://cterport.ed.uiuc.edu/technologies_folder/SL

Orienting to Second Life

This wiki lists many orientation areas in Second Life. Check out Orienation Station.
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Orientation_Areas#Orientation_Station