Second Life for Business

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Second Life for Business

• May 13, 2008
• Catherine Wyman
• SL AuntFun Ellison
• Catherine.wyman_at_gmail.com

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What is Second Life?

• http//silverandgoldie.com/linden_congress.htm
• http//secondlife.com/whatis/
• http//www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?vide
  oId165604titleavatar-heroes
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?ve9nyJCYrP6w

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Why Should We Care?

• Second Life has endless possibilities for
  immersive learning
• Voice enabled teaching language at a distance
• Recreating environments that would be impossible
  in the real world
• Being on the moon
• Flying through the eye of a hurricane

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Everyone Else is Doing It

• According to an article in The New Yorker, the
  National Security Administration is training
  agents in SL
• IBM has purchased many islands, so has Intel,
  Xerox, etc.
• CSI NY, the Office

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How Do I Get in Second Life?

• Step 1 goto secondlife.com and create a free
  account
• Step 2 download the client software o your
  machine
• Step 3 brace yourself. Login. Complete the
  introductory activities.
• Step 4 visit places recommended on the next slide

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Landmarks of Cool Places

• Palomar West Hospital http//slurl.com/secondlife/
  PalomarWest20Hospital/30/120/34
  
• Elon University Carbon Footprint House
  http//slurl.com/secondlife/Elon/20/101/27
  
• International Spaceflight Museum
  http//slurl.com/secondlife/Spaceport20Alpha/65/6
  2/22
  
• Virtual Hallucination http//slurl.com/secondlife/
  Sedig/26/45/22
  
• GCC Campus Calisto Encial's Hacienda
  http//slurl.com/secondlife/GCCAz/75/121/24

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Follow up

• Join the Maricopa Educators group in Second Life
• Other groups of interest
• ISTE Educational Technology Assoc
• Life 2.0
• Metanomics
• NMC Guests
• Sign up for Second Life for Business CIS280 at
  SCC this Fall!

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Thank you for coming!

• Please let me know if I can help you on your
  journey.
• Catherine Wyman
• Catherine.wyman_at_sccmail.maricopa.edu
• SL AuntFun Ellison