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Highlights the tendency to recreate the victorian, traditional classroom in Second Life and offers some quick examples of alternative experience

"Second life does provide social presence through the avatars we use, lots of opportunities for role play (let's face it, it is at a minimum a role play game), and yes it is immersive, allowing you to experience human from inside the cell walls or visit a detailed simulation of the Cistine Chapel. But the real power of Second Life as a virtual venue for your teaching and learning is the ability to translate real content into something really exciting and powerful. That of course is where the difficulty lies isn't it?"

"Second Life Educational Summer Retreat July 13, 2010 :: Second Life"

A educational conference in Second Life in July, 2010

"Formerly hosted by the UNC TLT Collaborative, this year the TLT Conference is being hosted by UNC-Pembroke, with support by the UNC System, and will be held April 13-15, 2010 in Second Life. The presentations and demonstrations will be held on the five NC Education WeBIEE islands. NC Education is a Second Life group funded by the community colleges and open to all of North Carolina education. Registration for the 2010 UNC TLT Conference is free! You can attend from your home, office, library . . . anywhere you have a broadband internet connection -- for free!!"

An example of a educational technology conference held in Second Life. Many of our community will attend - Hope to see you there!

Prof. Constance Johnson's video about use of Second Life in Nursing Education

A good introduction video with many examples and uses. From the description: An overview of educational uses of Second Life including educational locations, tools, and learning archetypes that are applicable to Second Life.

About John Miller, a Nursing Professor at Tacoma Community College, use of nursing simulation in Second Life.

Excellent quickstart guide for beginning with Second Life. This is the best place to start with Second life.

excellent, but silent, slideshow on starting out in Second Life for educators

This Youtube was developed by Chris Keesey at Ohio University. I met him as the 2009 Sloan C conference. This video was designed to promote the use of second life at the Ohio University Second Life Campus; a virtual campus featuring multiple learning and collaboration opportunities for students on the Ohio campus and all over the world. For more information contact: keesey@ohio.edu.

This site lists three case studies of how groups are using Second Life in education (The New Media Consortium, the Open University, and Loyalist College), as well as lists a few good links to more resources

A very good introduction to Second life as an educational platform

ISTE island is a great place for educators to begin and become involved second life.

A good introduction to Second Life from Diane Skiba, nursing professor and 2010 iNET conference keynote speaker.

A place to begin with Second Life. Access to the software download, quickstart guides, and support options. Also, directions to reset your password.

The Second Life Official Site and place to download the software

This is a short video outlining how staff and students can use Second Life to support teaching, learning and collaborative working.

This video (created by Claudia Kimbrough) shows the use of Second Life in two College of Management courses. This innovative teaching and learning environment is a part of NC State University's LITRE (Learning in a Technology Rich Environment) program and a part of VOLT: Virtual Online Learning and Teaching, a comprehensive, collaborative project on online learning led by Len Annetta.

ISTE requires membership but did listen to the free webinar on digital story telling which i am currently using in the graduate level nursing theory course. Students are assigned to do a 3-5 minute digital story using a nursing theorist. These are due in April, so I'll send you the link once they are completed, i am hoping that they will use quicktime so that i can link the stories into Second life.

Sonya, It appears that the VoiceThread Archives are in the .mov format. HOORAY! Here is a link to the VoiceThread Blog with details: http://voicethread.com/blog/#20080309