Second Life

Some more information on educational use of SL

I found all of these in the Second Life official guide.

Collaboration with other educators:

• Join the Real Life Education Group… Search for “Real Life Education” under groups and click Join. This way you’ll be in touch with all the educators while you are in the SL.
• Subscribe to Educators Mailing List… address: https://lists.secondlife.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/educators
• General page for education in SL: http://secondlife.com/education

Examples of education places:

• Campus region: main hub for classes participating in the campus. there are classes and projects being held on the mainland SL or private islands.

• Harvard’s Berkman Center owns a private island called “Berkman” where they built Auistin Hall to hold conferences and meetings.

• New Media Consortium has created an experimental space called “ NMC Campus” . They are exploring learning and collaboration in SL. For latest info : http://www.nmc.org/sl

• A group of librarians with the Alliance Library System in Illinois has created info island. For more info: http://infoisland.org

• International Spaceflight Museum…You can create something that could be impossible to built in real life educational settings.

• A stroke survivor created a space called “Dreams” to provide self-support for other stroke survivors.