Second Life OU workshop 1-May-2007

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Organisers

Peter Twining
Dan Seamans
Jacquie Bennett

Aims of the session

  1. To find out what Second Life is (and get some hands-on experience)
  2. To consider the affordances of Second Life (What does it offer that other media can’t?)
  3. To think about how Second Life might enhance our provision (Can it solve problems that we have?)

Overview of session

Timing (approx)

What

Notes/links

11.20 to 11.25 Hello – aims of the session PT
11.25 to 11.30 What is Second Life? DS
11.30 to 11.40 What are we doing in Second Life already? JB & PT (5 mins each)
11.40 to 11.55 Line up in date of birth order Everyone (in-world)

How to move around in Second Life
Info on the Second Life client interface

11.55 to 12.00 Initial impressions/thoughts? Everyone
12.00 to 12.40 Three activities:
A - World tour Links to interesting places in Second Life

(PT)

B - Prisoners' dilema (designed by DS) http://slurl.com/secondlife/SchomeBase/77/32/30 (DS)
C - What do I look like? How to edit your appearance in Second Life (JB)
12.40 to 12.55 Discussion – re Aims of Session items 2 and 3
12.55 to 13.00 Where next - how to move forward?

The backup plan

Timing (approx)

What

Notes/links

11.20 to 11.25 Hello – aims of the session PT
11.25 to 11.40 What is Second Life? DS
11.40 to 12.00 What are we doing in Second Life already? JB & PT (10 mins each)
12.00 to 12.35 Explore resources
A - video clips Second Life machinima
B - websites The Schome Park bliki

The SchomeBase bliki
Second Life blogs
Why use Second Life within schome? Some cool user pages in the schome community wiki:

12.30 to 12.55 Discussion – re Aims of Session items 2 and 3
12.55 to 13.00 Where next - how to move forward?