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Second Life School Implementation Framework
http://techlearning.com/secondlife/implementation_framework.php
Second Life School Implementation Framework

TechLearning's Roadmap to Second Life
http://techlearning.com/secondlife/
TechLearning's Roadmap to Second Life
The potential for teaching and learning and for professional development are first being explored.
Technology & Learning is spending time in Second Life and hopes to help you decide on the value for yourself and your school.

Educators Coop Residential Community in Second Life
http://www.educatorscoop.org/
Educators Coop Residential Community in Second Life
The spirit of our vision for the Educators Coop Residential Community is to provide eligible educators and researchers with a simple and easy way to feel at home in an SL community and to begin exploring, collaborating, teaching, and conducting research in Second Life more easily and seamlessly.
The heart of our effort is building a real community that provides educators with a unique cooperative residential environment in SL offering opportunities for creating meaningful new relationships and collaborations. Residents enjoy these benefits and share in the responsibility for cultivating and supporting a community spirit.
Eligibility: You must be an academic Educator and/or Researcher (academic faculty, researcher, graduate student teacher, K-12 teacher, Librarian, PhD; trainers & technical coordinators would not typically qualify)

University Opens Virtual Classroom in Second Life
http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/49280
New Orleans University Opens Virtual Classroom in Second Life
The university offers its courses on New Orleans Island, which sits on 16 acres of virtual real estate in the community. Currently.
In addition to course offerings, UNO's Second Life campus will support administrative and research needs, according to Merrill Johnson, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts. Eventually, visitors to the virtual campus will be able to browse through displays that link to the UNO library, admissions office, and brick-and-mortar offices of the university.

Second Life in Education: Dip, Cliff, or Cul-de-Sac?
http://www.techlearning.com/blog/2007/07/second_life_in_education_dip_c.php
Second Life in Education: Dip, Cliff, or Cul-de-Sac?
As Second Life has reach a point where many educators are now familiar with this virtual world and have even begun exploring it, the time is right to ask the question of whether or not Second Life in education is in the Dip, Cliff, or Cul-de-Sac.

Second Thoughts on Second Life
http://blog.genyes.com/index.php/2007/07/21/second-thoughts-on-second-life/
Second Thoughts on Second Life
Excellent Blog Posting
When I joined the group of educators in Second Life called the CAVE (see previous post) I promised myself I would do two things: 1) approach Second Life with an open mind and 2) write about it along the way. I have written about it to some extent (another previous post, My First Second Life Lesson), but it still feels like I have a long way to go.
And finally, to gain any REAL insight and perspective, I needed to re-read more seminal works in this area. I’m still working my way through some and I’ve written about them at the end of this post.

The schome NAGTY Teen Second Life Pilot
http://kn.open.ac.uk/public/getfile.cfm?documentfileid=11344
The schome-NAGTY Teen Second Life Pilot
This report provides a brief overview of key ‘findings’ emerging from the schome-NAGTY Teen Second Life Pilot.
There is extensive additional information about the Pilot on the schome community website www.schome.ac.uk
The Pilot set out to explore the educational potential and pitfalls of Teen Second Life, a secure 3D virtual world for 13 to 17 year olds. 149 students from NAGTY (The National Association of Gifted and Talented Youth) were provided with access to Schome Park (an island in Teen Second Life) which was intended to be used as an integral part of the the schome community website (wiki and forum).
These students were referred to as SParkers

Video History of Education in Teen Second Life
http://youtube.com/watch?v=35uMi3Ccvic
Video History of Education in Teen Second Life Also see www.HolyMeatballs.org

Teaching in SL .... Discussion Group
http://educatorscoop.org/
Teaching in SL ... Discussion Group
The spirit of our vision for the Educators Coop Residential Community is to provide eligible educators and researchers with a simple and easy way to feel at home in an SL community and to begin exploring, collaborating, teaching, and conducting research in Second Life more easily and seamlessly.
The heart of our effort is building a real community that provides educators with a unique cooperative residential environment in SL offering opportunities for creating meaningful new relationships and collaborations. Residents enjoy these benefits and share in the responsibility for cultivating and supporting a community spirit.

Skoolaborate
http://www.skoolaborate.com/
Skoolaborate
Stay tuned our Teen Second Life project has begun. A huge thanks to Linden Labs for making this possible and for their vision. Amazing that, in such a huge virtual world, a corporate organisation makes the time to support education.
I am Westley Field from MLC School in Sydney At MLC we believe that Global Citizenship is an essential and growing part of a rounded education.
Schools need to explore educational opportunities that will engage students and motivate them to learn.
Skoolaborate (a virtual collaborative space) and blog aims to bring together like minded schools from around the globe so that their students may share and learn from each other, in a virtual environment, through a variety of educational experiences. We hope that Skoolaborate will act as a vehicle that promotes Global Awareness and Understanding. The island itself will house a variety of areas. Our home base will establish the culture of the site. It will house information about Global collaborative projects, the participating schools, the site itself, and news and information for visitors.

Not school - not home - schome
http://www.schome.ac.uk
Not school - not home - schome - the education system for the information age.
Schome will be an education system that meets the needs of society and individuals in the 21st century.
Schome will value and support people in learning throughout their lives (cradle to grave).
Schome will include flexible use of both physical and virtual spaces to support learning processes and enhance community. The main focus of work on schome is currently on the use of Teen Second Life to give people 'a lived experience' of radically different models of education.
We are using Schome Park, our island in the Teen Grid of Second Life, to collect evidence about approaches to supporting learners. The educational models we are using on Schome Park fit within the scope of the eSIR Reference Statement (Twining et al. 2006 Appendix 1) and draw upon a wide range of approaches to education evident in the educational systems in use in different countries and informed by prominent educational thinkers.

SimTeach
http://www.simteach.com/
SimTeach: Information and Community for Educators using M.U.V.E.'s Multi-User Virtual Environments

101 use for SL in the classroom
http://warburton.typepad.com/disruptive/2007/03/101_use_for_sl_.html
101 use for SL in the classroom
A rather useful overview of SL in the classroom. Lots of background information and ideas from Megan Conklin at Elon University, Department of Computing Sciences.
You can download a pdf copy here (31 pages, 371.6K, released under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License).

Science Education in Second Life (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfsSGBraUhc
Science Education in Second Life ... the online 3D Virtual World. (video)
A brief overview of science and research education in Second Life, highlighting Science School, Genome Island, Research Park, ISTE Island and more.