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Second Life Education (SLED) shared Google Calendar

Second Life Education (SLED) shared Google Calendar second life in education (SLED) events calendar

CNN article: Can Second LIfe help teach doctors to treat patients?

CLIVE: CNN article Can Second LIfe help teach doctors to treat patients?

Second Life Creator Linden Lab downsizes

The Mayo Clinic explores the virtual world of Second Life. Conducting courses, simulating doctor/patient visits, and testing innovative designs for emergency rooms and medical clinics;

Chemistry in Second Life: paper describing chemistry applications and teaching/learning potential - from Chemistry Central Journal, October 2009

Chemistry in Second Life: paper describing chemistry applications and teaching/learning potential - from Chemistry Central Journal, October 2009

look at all of these educational resources in Second life!

teaching numbers to children - used in Second Life in 3D visualization

possible Metric collaboration opportunity

The UnOfficial Second Life Education FAQ

edublog2008 winner (best educational use of a virtual world); second life and the Discovery Educational Network

virtual worlds researchers group in Second Life

Introducing the Earworms Musical Brain Trainer Learn a new Language in Second Life, your Ipod, your iPhone or PC for the new year! 200+ essential words and phrases anchored into your long-term memory with great music. The 70 minute Earworms SLCD's will play the tracks inworld - can be downloaded as mp3 files to your desktop, Ipod or Iphone and comes with full documentation on PDF files for you to print and read at your leisure. Come and sample Earworms for yourself inworld - visit us at and TP up to The Earworms Loft Earworms mbt puts the words and phrases you need not just on the tip of your tongue, but also transports them deep into your long-term memory. Simply by listening to these specially composed melodies with their rhythmic repetitions a few times, the sound patterns are indelibly burned into your auditory cortex. You will have successfully learned the phrase and have the correct accent ringing in your ears. Wherever you are, whatever you are doing: While jogging, in the car, in the bath, doing the ironing…you can be learning a new language at the same time! earworms mbt© Rapid Languages is the first language course to get your toe tapping. You know the phenomena of those catchy tunes or earworms that you just can't get out of your head? Voulezvous coucher avec moi, ce soir? Well, earworms mbt© has put this phenomena to positive use. Gone are the days of learning pressure and frustration at not being able to remember, the experience of many on conventional language courses. In combination with music, the phrases you need are automatically anchored deep into your memory, ready for instant recall.

Second Life: Shakespeare Company

Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle's Virtual Safaris in Second Life

slurl builder: create your own clickable Second Life url or "slurl" using the region name and x, y, & z coordinates

Sambiglyon: renting Second Life land for non-profit and educational organizations

The International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments (IJVPLE) provides readers with comprehensive coverage of developments in learning technologies for an international readership of educators, technologists and trainers. The journal is a primary source for academics, professionals, corporate trainers and policy makers in information and communication technologies. The journal publishes high quality contributions (papers, book reviews) on a range of fields associated with Course Management Systems (CMS), Learning Management Systems (LMS), Virtual Learning Environments (VLE), Social Networking Sites (SNS), Personalized Learning Environments (PLE), and 3D virtual worlds, including for example Second Life (SL). Articles published in the journal cover education and training, concentrating on the theory, application, and development of learning technologies. There is a particular interest in the application of new and emerging information and communication technologies in education and training.

Eugene Weekly article about CATE in Second Life: "A Bright, Wonderful Future"

Rethinking Net Safety Together: dispelling myths about how kids use social media and how we might keep them safe (filmed in Second Life)

New Media Consortium's press release announcing their award of a free sim in Second Life for the Virtual Oaxaca Project - by the Wired Humanities Project and the Center for Learning in Virtual Environments at the University of Oregon

The Emerging Technologies for Online Learning Symposium by Sloan-C, MERLOT, & Moodlemoot. Jonathon Richter will be there presenting with the rest of the MERLOT Virtual Worlds Taskforce fort the Grand Opening of the Center for Learning in Virtual Environments' MERLOT Teaching Commons and activities in Second Life, Open Wonderland, and other virtual worlds.