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Research and CTU in Second Life
Copyright Cynthia M. Calongne, 2008.
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Cynthia CalongneColorado Technical University
DCS-EIS April 18, 2008
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Research in a Virtual World
• Integrates– People -- that sense of presence
• Avatars, movement and communication
– Places• Settings that provide a context for exploration
– Content • Science, culture, behavior, innovation, branding
– Accomplishments• simulations, studies, experimental designs, business
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Virtual World Explosion
• By the end of 2011 – 80% of the world’s active Internet users will be in a
virtual world (Gartner, 2007)• Over 330 million active Internet home users in March
2007 -- Nielsen ratings
• Education– Over 400 universities and 4500 educators in SL
• Congressional hearings held in April 2008– Concerns on teen use, terrorism, security
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How we Teach and Learn in SL• Self image
• Mentor, collaborate
• Social networks
• Class projects
• Roleplay
• Learning games
• Blended reality
• Exploration
• Build
• Create an avatar - you!
• Office hours, facilitation
• Share ideas, hold meetings
• Applied learning
• Immersive learning
• Interactivities
• Real & virtual meetings
• Visit, tour, study
• Create and customize
If 80% of the world’s Internet users will be in a virtual world by 2011 (Gartner, 2007) -- Are you ready?
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Virtual World Learning Spaces
• An environment for learning includes– Communication tools
for sharing ideas
– Content that maps to the the course objectives
– A variety of course delivery methods
Nanotechnology Lab in Second LifeAn asynchronous learning environment
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Science Comes to Life
The National Physics Laboratorypresents the advances in
Nanotechnology
Interactive Nano Labs
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Middle School Students at Ramapo
Roleplay andconflict in animmersive literature class
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, portrayed by Suffern Middle School students
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MBA 770 Class at Wright State
Shu’s students prepare for a collaboration exercise in Second Life
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Virtual Hallucinations
University of Queensboro University of Calif, Davis
Survey Instrument in SLVoices and Perception
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Content at Virtual Hallucinations
Words leap out at you,simulating an experience
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Interactive Learning Spaces
Dr. Dobb’s Life 2.0visit http://life20.net
Acheron LV426CTU class work space
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Modeling the Problem
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Crooked House
You never run out of house as it rolls over while you walk
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Cooperation Theory
We sit above, seeing the maze and the demonstration viewers
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SL Research
• VITAL Lab -- Software Engineering Process Game and more– http://vital.cs.ohiou.edu/vitalwiki/index.php/Second_Life_Development
• Eric McLuhan on animation and the Egyptian silhouette
• Conferences and Symposiums
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Eric McLuhan in SL
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Robotics at CTU
Student, instructor and Big Robot on Campus group robots
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MacArthur Foundation in SL
Philip Linden, CEO of Linden LabMeets with the MacArthur Foundation
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Real and Virtual Meetings
NMC Symposium, Lyr Lobo queries the MacArthur Foundation
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Meetings around the Campfire
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Thomson NETg in SL
Using a video stream with Thomson NETg’s online course content
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8th Graders Learn to Design
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Colorado Tech Island
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CTU Boardwalk in SL
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CTU Class - 1st Day in SL
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Robotics Class Projects
Robots by CTU doctoral students and Lyr Lobo on Acheron LV426
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If You Build It, They Will Come
• The interaction between people and content– Students, faculty, instructional designers
• Support for active and passive learners
• Support for a variety of learning styles– How do you learn?
• Discussion
• Exploration
• Discovery
• Creation
Otis College Art Projects
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Instructor-designed classrooms
use creative and innovative
environments
ExperimentalDesign
Classrooms
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CS 820 at CTU -- doctoral students study how to design their prototypes
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A self-guided tutorial for building a 20-minute project
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Preparing for CTU student presentations and usability tests using empirical methods
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Student projects and class content on display at Acheron LV426
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CS 820 from Fall 2007 conducts usability evaluations using empircal testing
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Virtual Meetings, Interactive Content
(top two images, left to right)
The House of Seven Gables session
(bottom image)
Jared Bendis on Digital Tattoos
NMC Fall Symposium in SL 2008
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Getting Ready to Teach
• Readiness checklist– Avatar -- yourself!
• Appearance
• Communication
– User interface• Using the tool
• Motor skills
• Camera controls
– Content• Activities, simulations
Lyr Lobo in Second Life
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Sense of Presence
• Appearance– 1st self or ideal self?
• Movement– SL user interface– Animation override (AO)
custom device
• Communication– Voice, text, gestures
• Hair, skin, shape and clothes
• Moving your avatar – Arrow keys or View menu
and Movement
– Poses and animations
• Looking at the class– Camera controls
• Arrows or View menu
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How Will Your Avatar Look?
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Looking at Objects and People
• Camera orientation– Hold down your alt key
and left mouse click on a person or an object to focus on it
• Your display will follow the person or the object’s movement
• Use your scroll wheel to zoom in and out
– Use the Escape key twice (Esc) to return to your view
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Controlling What You See
• Camera controls– To move around a person or
object• Let’s look at your face!
– Press and hold down• ctrl + alt + left button
– All 3 at the same time
– And on a Mac?
• Move your hand down, around and up while pressing these keys to move your camera around the object
Navigation ControlsCan also use the arrow keys
Camera ControlsHandy for Capturing Video
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Communicating in Second Lifewith 1-2000+avatars
Left to right
TeleportGroup notice
2nd row
Voice chat - Sound waves overhead
Instant messageGroup messages
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Movement at the TCC Reception
Dance animation menu displays after clicking the floor; control menus on screen
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Social Networking in Second Life
A screenshot of the TCC Reception in Second Lifefrom a dual monitor system; notice Twitter in the back channel
Attendees at conferences report events as they happen via Twitter, integrating Web 2.0 tools with virtual world interaction
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Content and Virtual Spaces
• Research studies scientific, cultural, social, political, educational and business issues
• Virtual world classes support– Immersive, interactive, imaginative settings
• Asynchronous and synchronous support
• 3D graphics, sounds, gestures and interaction
• Immersive literature, immersive history, scientific discovery, contextual settings, applied math, creativity and social networks
– Activity-based learning
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SL Research Links
• Research in Second Life presentation– http://www.slideshare.net/lyrlobo/research-in-second-life
• Artificial Intelligence in SL– http://web.bvu.edu/faculty/schweller/
• TCC Preconference Wiki -- SL from a Flash drive tips– http://tccpre-conference.pbwiki.com/
• Libsecondlife -- programming tools– http://www.libsecondlife.org/wiki/Main_Page
• LSL Wiki -- programming tools– http://www.lslwiki.net/lslwiki/wakka.php?wakka=HomePage
• Edumuve– http://edumuve.com/tour/ and http://edumuve.com/blended/
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SL Research Links 2
• Second Life http://secondlife.com/ http://secondlifegrid.net/
• National Public Radio’s Science Friday in SL– http://www.sciencefriday.com/
• NMC Campus Observer– http://sl.nmc.org/
• NOAA’s Traffic Analysis– http://mayarealities.com/
• Best Practices in SL– http://www.slcn.tv/bpe-lyr-lobo
• Annotated Bibliograophy of SL Educational Resources – http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~mpepper/slbib
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SL Research Links 3
• Second Life as a Virtual Learning Environment– http://www.dokimos.org/secondlife/education/index.html
• An Educational Tour of Second Life– http://www.slideshare.net/lyrlobo/an-educational-tour-of-second-life
• A View from Second Life’s Trenches: Are you a Pioneer or a Settler?– http://sl.nmc.org/2007/06/09/pioneer-or-settler/
• Leveraging the Affordances, Minimizing the Barriers of Virtual Worlds– http://sl.nmc.org/2007/06/09/edu-panel/
• LearnScope in Second Life– http://www.slideshare.net/lyrlobo/learnscope-in-second-life
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SL Research Links 4
• Using Second Life– www.educause.edu/ir/library/powerpoint/SAC07025A.pps
• Beyond Course Management Tools: Second Life – www.educause.edu/ir/library/powerpoint/SAC07014.pps
• Virtual worlds in Online Education: Are You Ready to Teach in Second Life?– http://www.telecoop.org/conference/materials/CalogneTeachinginSecondLife.ppt
• What Can We Learn from World of Warcraft & Second Life?– http://archive.nmc.org/events/2006fallregional/materials/calongne.ppt
• SL Podcast by Bayne, Walker and Calongne– http://connect.educause.edu/blog/gbayne/podcastusingsecondli/44967?
time=1188754831
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SL Research Links 5
• Who’s on Second? Educational Podcasts– http://www.rabble.ca/rpn/podcast.php?id=wos
• Second Life Development -- VITAL Lab– http://vital.cs.ohiou.edu/vitalwiki/index.php/Second_Life_Development
• Suffern Middle School in Second Life– http://rampoislands.blogspot.com/2007_02_01_archive.html
• Second Life Library 2.0– http://www.infoisland.org/drupal/ and http://www.myspace.com/73899784
• Second Life Education Wiki– http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Second_Life_Education_Wiki
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SL Research Links 6• Secondary Worlds
– http://secondaryworlds.com/
• Reuters -- Doors to open on Google Virtual world(s)?– http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2007/10/24/doors-to-open-on-google-virtual-
worlds/
• SL and Google Earth are Transforming the Idea of Architectural Collaboration– http://archrecord.construction.com/features/digital/archives/0701dignews-2.asp
• Timeline - History of Second Life Wiki – http://secondlife.wikia.com/index.php/Second_Life_Through_The_Ages
• UberNoggin: Big Brains - Big Ideas– http://www.ubernoggin.com/
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SL Research Links 7 News
• Reuters in Second life– http://secondlife.reuters.com/
• The SL Newspaper– http://www.sl-newspaper.com/
• Second Life Herald– http://www.secondlifeherald.com/
• Metaverse Messenger– http://metaversemessenger.com/index.html
• SLNN– http://www.slnn.com/index.php
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SL Research Links 8
• New Worlds Notes– http://nwn.blogs.com/
• SL A Virtual Universe for Real Engineering– http://www.designnews.com/index.asp?
layout=article&articleid=CA6490691
• Just Virtual– http://www.justvirtual.com/index.php/category/second-life/
• Seifert Surface - Math in Second Life– http://www.segerman.org/2ndlife.html
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Research and CTU in Second LifeAre you ready?
Lyr Lobo in Second LifeRyl Redgrave on the Teen Grid at Ramapo
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