If you want to get a sense of what Second Life is like and particularly what it is like as part of learning, here are some videos that help describe this. View | Upload your own What videos did I miss MORE >>

Maka, Huntress and Kallan enjoying a night out dancing This is the last of a series of September posts summarising some of what I’ve learnt while looking around Second Life (SL). It is also a good move for the reputation of Second Life. Tags: communities Second Life Exploring SL from the elearning perspective, there are a range of features that facilitate communication, making it an accessible networking tool. In local text chat, selecting the range of communication provides a means of control over the ‘loudness’ of the chat. MORE >>

That’s when she turned to a different virtual world product: Second Life. ve written about Second Life a few times before on this blog ( here and here ). This location in Second Life now hosts many learning objects and activities that augment introductory courses in genetics and biology. Much like WoW, students create a virtual character in Second Life and with this character they can personally interact with objects and perform the learning activities that Mary Anne has created. Genome Island is publicly accessible in Second Life. MORE >>

This month's question came from a reader the June 2008 Big Question is: Second Life Training? More specifically: In what situations, do you believe it makes sense to develop a learning experience that will be delivered within Second Life? If you were to develop a training island in Second Life, what kind of environment and artifacts would you consider essential for teaching? Cube - e-Learning and Second Life - How viable is it? Donald Clark - 10 reasons not to use Second Life in learning Peter Isackson - Second Life. MORE >>

Here is a video I created for my "Learning in 3D Class" which contrasts the world of 2D Synchronous tools with 3D Synchronous learning tools. hope it illustrates some of the advantages of 3D environments and some of the things that can be done to faciliate learning within a 3D environment. The video is based on the work Tony O'Driscoll and I did for the e-learning guild's Synchronous Learning 360 Report. Also, you can check out a webinar where I co-presented with Steve Wexler and Karen Hyder on the Synchronous report. It is worth taking a look. The webinar is titled Synchronous Learning Report. MORE >>