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Example of high school student rapid prototyping - Senior project

Canadian First People's stories project with 3D component, website and learning activities. Good example of 3D supported instruction!

Jokaydia sleducation wiki secondlife resources .. Excellent page Links to tutorials guides .. a lot of pedagogical resources

Great getting started guide

SLED - Second Life Educators Listserve sign up for mailing list

Simteach Second Life Education Wiki - another compilation of education-related Second Life resources

second life educator education videos

Second Life scripting tool by Hilary Mason (SL: Ann Enigma). Selecting parameters creates script to be pasted into object.

RezEd (BETA), an online hub providing practitioners using virtual worlds with access to the highest quality resources and research in the field to establish a strong network of those using virtual worlds for learning.

Welcome to RezEd (BETA), an online hub providing practitioners using virtual worlds with access to the highest quality resources and research in the field to establish a strong network of those using virtual worlds for learning.

Here is another community for educators using virtual worlds for learning. I just submitted an application ... we'll see whether or not they accept me! It appears to be a Ning network with many resources. I think joining these communities is important ... reducing the learning curve by listening to those who have already learned things the hard way is a skill I'm trying hard to cultivate! Dana

3d learning environment and activity principles for engaged and effective learning in a virtual 3d environment

Procedures/Best Practices to follow before a sim-wide event (For estate managers/owners)

Rezzable created an on-line virtual questing environment to support Ytouring 's Starfish production where students learn through questing in a 3D environment about Scurvy and Clinical Trials. After seeing Starfish audiences are invited to enter Steamfish a specially created world. First they create their own character (avatar). In character they arrive on board the recently 'shipwrecked' Stella Maris. This is where they start their quest to learn more about scurvy and clinical trials. 

Good beginning of a list of ISD considerations before implementing VW instructional projects.

LSL script to distribute object to list of names in a notecard. Might be useful for distributing class materials.

Ocean science museum in SL: the educational sim includes a "Journey into the Deep" 2,000 meter underwater elevator, virtual replicas of the NOAA's research vessel "Okeanos Explorer" and submersible "Cleria", an undersea manned habitat, and lots of other scientific experiences to discover International Japanese/other collaboration

Information and description of Abyss Explorium in Second Life. (Oceanic museum project)

to educate those that might not otherwise have the chance about Frank Lloyd Wright and his work,

SL murder mystery game running February 2010. Example of environment context, role playing, collaboration, problem solving?, fun. How could this strategy be used with educational content?

elearningproject - using virtual worlds (Reaction Grid and Second Life) to teach English Language skills through adventure based learning. A 10 mission adventure where students must work together to escape Devil Island.