Notes
Slide Show
Outline
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AIO Game Art Design
  • Second Life Project
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Team Leads
  • Jeannie Novak, Project Manager
  • Jason Bramble, Tech team leader
  • Linda Selheim, Art team leader
  • Nancy Wood, Associate Producer & Curriculum Designer
  • James Lowe, Gameplay
  • Daniel Ostenso, Q & A
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Curriculum Team
  • Destini Copp
  • Deborah Baxtrom
  • Vernon Reed
  • Nancy Wood
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Design Questions
  • What are Second Life’s affordances (capabilities) and
  • how can they be used in education?


    • Can be used Synchronously or Asynchronously,
    • Can connect users from all over the world.
    • Users can move about in a virtual environment
    • Users can build and texture objects, import objects
    • User has an avatar presence that can be modified
    • Users can interact with other users in real time
    • Users can interact with object in their environment
    • Links to other sites and RSS feeds can be incorporated
    • Sound, animation, and video can be displayed, interacted with, attached to objects.

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Design Questions
  • What types of class activities can be facilitated in Second Life ?


    • Lectures?
    • Discussions?
    • Demonstrations?
    • Guided Practice?
    • Practice with Feedback?
    • Critiques?
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How Real Should Virtual Reality Really Be?

  • Considerations:
    • Navigation
    • Layout and design of Buildings
    • Movements of Avatars
    • Social Conventions
    • Users
    • Technical Upgrades and Developments
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Link to AIO
Game Art Design
 Second Life Project Slide Show
  • http://pixelpaint.com/godzilla/present/index.htm
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Sources of Information
  • Events Calendar
  • http://secondlife.com/events/


  • Educators Email Digest
  • To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
        https://lists.secondlife.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/educators
    or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
        educators-request@lists.secondlife.com
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Other cool sites on and about SL
  •  Science & Health

    UC Davis' Virtual Hallucinations (James Linden - "schizophrenia installation") - http://slurl.com/secondlife/sedig/27/45/22/
  • Heart Murmur Sim (medical assessment experiment, built 3/06) - http://slurl.com/secondlife/waterhead/130/37
  • Spaceport Alpha (incorporating International Spaceflight Museum and SL Planetarium by Chaac Amarula) - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Spaceport%20Alpha/23/51/22/
  • Solar Eclipse Planetarium (Aimee Webber) - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Midnight%20City/94/76/27/
  • Svarga (Laukosargas Svarog's virtual eco-system) - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Svarga/128.0/128.0
  • Ivory Tower of Prims (teaches in-world skills) - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Natoma/204/70/25/
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Other interesting places to visit in SL









 Other cool sites on and about SL
Arts/Culture/Experimental Courses

Democracy Island (NYLS) - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Democracy%20Island/116/220/

Esperantujo (Esperanto campus including a museum) - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Shelter/98.0675/53.7299

Human Animal (Jen Caruso's MCAD class) - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Jiminy/75/88/112

Info Island (Incorporating SL & ICT Libraries, TechSoup) - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island/52/193/

The Port (Swedish Art Wiki) - http://slurl.com/secondlife/The%20Port/72/64

Interesting Project
aloft - search for this in the map
http://www.virtualaloft.com/project_details/ link to the site Virtual hotel, real world project
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Other sites on and about SL
  • Nice Environments!

    Tengu Isle (created by an AICLA Santa Monica student)
    http://slurl.com/secondlife/Tengu%20Isle/221/110/25

    Sloodleville in Hyperborea - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Hyperborea/25/161/25/%20

    Art Gallery (M) - SL coordinates: 128 128 0
    Rose Garden (M) - SL coordinates: 51 161 26

    Harvard's Beckman Hall
    http://slurl.com/secondlife/Berkman/69/54/24/
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Other sites on and about SL
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUUnnLm-AG4
  • Dropping objects into a drop box, grading, feedback, revisions.
  • Jeremy Kemp, M.Ed., M.S.J.
    Assistant Director, SL Campus
    SJSU School of Library & Information Science
    (408) 393-5270 Cell, (408) 924-2466 Office
    "SJSU SLIS" on the SL map
    SL Avatar: Jeremy Kabumpo


  • 'Second Life Computer History Museum' - we are now located on Eduisland 4 -- http://slurl.com/secondlife/Eduisland%204/228/208/24/?title=Sl%20Computer%20History%20Museum

    Current exhibits include -
    -- working Turing Machine (imaginary machine which is cornerstone of CS theory)
    -- working Perceptron (basis of neural networks)
    -- working Turing Chat Bot (demos 'Turings Test')
    -- full scale model of Eniac Computer (contested 'first' computer)
    -- full scale mode of Illiac (from University of Illinois)
    -- full scale model of Atanasoff-Berry Computer (contested 'first' computer)
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More sites
  • NMC: The New Media Consortium: sparking innovative learning and  
    creativity
    2499 S, Capital of Texas Highway. Bldg. A, Suite 202 Austin, TX  78746
    (512) 445-4200 | (512) 445-4205 fax
    http://www.nmc.org

    NMC Campus Observer: Second Life http://sl.nmc.org/
    NMC Virtual Worlds: http://virtualworlds.nmc.org


  • http://www.nmc.org/symposium-on-creativity
  • If any of you want to  join us we are meeting on Coventry University at 2pm (UK time) Tuesday 24th July on Coventry University Island http://slurl.com/secondlife/Coventry%20University/147/34/37/


  • http://sciencecommons.org/about/towards/
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More sites

  • Article about a company that spent 2 million dollars building a recreation of Rome in 320AD
  •        http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-et-rome16jun16,1,4112660.story?ctrack=1&cset=trueRome Reborn


  •       Pacific Rim Exchange-
    Collaboration between architecture classes in Colorado and Japan
  •       http://pacificrimx.wordpress.com/
  • http://pacificrimx.wordpress.com/album/
  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/pacrimx/


  • Vassar University built a recreation of the Sistine Chapel
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Thank You!

Nancy Wood 2007