Second Classroom

Students using Virtual Worlds

Second Classroom is a project to explore ways in which educators can create projects for students using immersive media such as Second Life, MMORPG and social networks to create authentic learning.

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Second Classroom and Teen Second Classroom are the initiative of Dean Groom and Judy O'Connell. Please join and participate in this collaborative venture. Let us know what you are doing and share your ideas with us all.

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Why Second Classroom?

We know that the academic and social well being of our students is enhanced when the learning environment provides spaces where students can learn in different ways, at different speeds, and where they feel safe and valued. We also know that the changes that 21st century learning has brought to the ways our teachers teach and students learn are momentous.

Join in the discussions and reflections to help take learning and teaching to the new frontiers of virtual learning. The Second Classroom aims to support students and teachers with opportunities to strive for creativity, knowledge, citizenship, global awareness and personal success in virtual learning environments.
 

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jokay

Coming Up @ jokaydia this week!

Started by jokay Nov 9.

Stacy O'Bleness

Hello 4 Replies

Started by Stacy O'Bleness. Last reply by Stacy O'Bleness Nov 7.

Judy O'Connell

Jokaydias Edumeet and Story Quest - 18th October

Started by Judy O'Connell Oct 15.

Blog Posts

Dean Groom

Larry Johnson - UTS Public Lecture Update

And location is the tower building, entrance level room 06.

Cb01 04 06.
Public Lecture on Second Life, 26/11/09, 6.00pm
As part of the UTS Communities of Practice/Learning Communities in Emerging Technologies for Teaching and Learning grant No Place Like Home Point: Creating a Community in Second Life, Larry Johnson, New Media Consortium CEO, will deliver a public lecture at UTS on the use of virtual worlds in higher education.

Posted by Dean Groom on November 25, 2009 at 9:02pm

Dean Groom

Imprudence Viewer

http://imprudenceviewer.org/ is another entry into the multi-viewer space. I've been using Meercat with Second Inventory on Reaction Grid and found it to be great for building, and as I write this, I've only just spend an hour with Imprudence. I'm using mostly OSX, and to be honest found Hippo to be frustratingly un-reliable on OSX Snow.

… Continue

Posted by Dean Groom on November 19, 2009 at 7:22pm

Dean Groom

Online communities - are now a culture or counter-culture depending on your ideology. Community, c…



Online communities - are now a culture or counter-culture depending on your ideology. Community, culture, churn, sift and drift are the reagents of motivation and at the center of learning anything online.

Communities need culture to operate. Anyone talking about communities in an online wo

… Continue

Posted by Dean Groom on November 8, 2009 at 10:08am

Dean Groom

Texture Time

I've added some images of the 'feel' I'm trying to achieve with Judy in a transmedia story we've decided to work on. Currently lost somewhere in Photoshop and Google Documents ... and liking the flexible lighting modes in Meerkat more and more ... just sayin'

Posted by Dean Groom on November 4, 2009 at 10:44pm

Aleteia Infinity

Larry Johnson, New Media Consortium CEO, Public Lecture @ UTS 26 November 2009, 4.00pm: Down the Rabbit Hole … …or how the NMC took the red pill, got a Second Life, and found love on the 3D web

Dear Colleagues

I would like to invite you to Larry Johnson's lecture Down the Rabbit Hole … …or how the NMC took the red pill, got a Second Life, and found love on the 3D web, on 26 November 2009 at 4.00pm at UTS. (I apologise I do not have a lecture theatre number as yet, but I will post an update).

The lecture is part of a grant project I have been carrying out with colleagues from the School of Software in IT, Nursing and the Institute for Interactive Media Learning at UTS to find o… Continue

Posted by Aleteia Infinity on November 4, 2009 at 6:55pm

Dean Groom

Transmedia Approach to learning


I've been looking at the idea of developing sequences of work using a transmedia strategy. The idea that there are a series of modules of work, each taking place in different media. Typically, this is a tried and tested method for advertising - the target people's attention in multiple places, leading to an outcome that is desired.
I wonder if an

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Posted by Dean Groom on October 31, 2009 at 8:49pm

gwyneth jones

Go!Animate: Interactive Books & Libraries in Second Life

GoAnimate.com: Second Life Tour 1: Interactive Books & Libraries by gwyneth


Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It's free and fun!
a Go!Animate vid i made for a presentation at the AASL conference (American Association of School Librarians)… Continue

Posted by gwyneth jones on October 31, 2009 at 12:31am — 5 Comments

Judy O'Connell

Mixed Reality Presentations


I've just picked up some information about Mixed Reality Presentations that might be worth checking out.
The [Zone] Touch Screen Media Television with Searchable YouTube and Flickr is worth testing.

What's special about this in-world media… Continue

Posted by Judy O'Connell on October 26, 2009 at 11:11am

Lucy Barrow

Ninja Physics on ReactionGrid

Science is definitely not my strong point, so when I saw Kyle G's tweet about Ninja Physics on ReactionGrid, I assumed it would be completely beyond me!

I attended Kyle's class on the Ninja sim where I spent about 30 minutes playing, learning and creating. The Ninja Physics concept allows users to create objects that move in the same way that they would in real life. At the momen… Continue

Posted by Lucy Barrow on October 24, 2009 at 6:35pm — 1 Comment

Lucy Barrow

Exploring the Dabbleboard Tool by Kindlelab

After watching the movie posted by Judy O'Connell by Rich White, I visited his Smithsonian space on ReactionGrid to test Dabbleboard, a Kindlelab project.

By going to a Dabbleboard page in your browser, you can type, draw, i… Continue

Posted by Lucy Barrow on October 24, 2009 at 6:13pm

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The Islands of Jokaydia in Second Life provide us with professional collaboration and meeting spaces, and support for our virtual worlds projects. Visit the jokaydia.com website for more information.

Virtual Worlds Research

The Journal of Virtual Environments

LIS SIM Journals - A-M - SLIS Second Life Wiki

Research : Kzero

ARVEL special interest group at AERA approaches

The SLENZ Update - No 41, January 23, 2009 « Second Life Education in New Zealand

Educator Tools

New World Notes: SL Educator Creates Free Game Development Kit in a Box

SECOND LIFE – Searching the Knowledge Base and Wiki in-Viewer

JoelFoner.com » 10 Must-Do Security Checks To Prevent Virtual World Event Disruption

Mixed Reality Presentations - [ZONE] Touch Screen Media Television with Searchable YouTube and Flickr - Second Life® Tool Ranking

Is Apple Going to Support Augmented Reality, After All?

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http://imprudenceviewer.org/ is another entry into the multi-viewer space. I've been using Meercat with Second Inventory on Reaction Grid and found it to be great for building, and as I write this, I've only just spend an hour with Imprudence. I'm...
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Coming Up @ jokaydia this week!
Hi Everyone, Just a quick reminder that we have two very exclusive workshops with the StoryQuest team this week... PLUS join us on Sunday for a ReactionGrid Q&A with KyleG. For further details see: http://www.facebook.com/l/a2584;jokaydia.com/20...
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Online communities - are now a culture or counter-culture depending on your ideology. Community, culture, churn, sift and drift are the reagents of motivation and at the center of learning anything online.Communities need culture to operate. Any...
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