Discovering your Second Life Workshops 2008 

 

Murdoch University Library (Library Training Room 1.015)

 

INTRODUCTION

Slideshow giving background to Second Life:

1. What is Second Life ?
2. Universities and Second Life
3. Murdoch University and Second Life

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This 2 minute clip from Ohio University is a bit cheesy, but a nice outline of how one university is using Second Life:

What Murdoch University Library is doing in Second Life

WORKSHOP OUTLINES

Session 1 - Creating your avatar

By the end of the session, participants will:

1. Understand some educational uses of Second Life
2. Know where to find further information about education , libraries and Second Life
3. Have visited the Second Life web page
4. Know how to check technical specifications for running second life
5. Have selected a Second Life name
6. Have logged into Second Life using their Second Life name
7. Have visited Orientation Island in Second Life
8. Have learned how to "friend" another avatar
9. Have accepted an inventory offer from another avatar
10. Have completed four very basic orientation tutorials in how to:
    1. Move
    2. Search
    3. Communicate
    4. Appearance
11. Know how to teleport to Second Life mainland.

Session 2 - Doing more with your avatar

PREREQUISITE: You must already have a Second Life avatar with a Mainland Passport

By the end of the session, participants will:

1. Learn how to use a SLURL on a web page to get somewhere in Second Life

2. Read a notecard

3. Add a friend, Instant message them and Teleport them

4. Practise flying

5. Have forced a webpage into their browser from within Second Life

6. Have received an item from an object

7.Know how to wear an item of clothing

8. Understand how to animate their avatar

9. Have visited at least one educational site within Second Life

FURTHER RESOURCES

Vitual world codes of conduct

• Behavioural Guidelines : Linden Labs guidelines that all users agree to follow when signing in for the first time.

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• IBM virtual world guidelines: provide a very good outline of how an employee doing business on behalf of an organization should conduct themselves. Contains some very basic rules that you'd apply in real life, as well as pointers about intellectual property, when you should use a personal avatar instead etc.

• Murdoch University guidelines for the management and use of online virtual worlds

Further Australian resources about onine virtual worlds

• You only live twice: ABC Four Corners documentary, broadcast 19 March 2007
• SLOz : Australia's Second Life News Source

Further resources about education and online virtual worlds

• Second Life in Education a detailed and comprehensive Australian based site authored by Jo Kay and Sean Fitzgerald
• Australian universities in Second Life - the good, the bad, and the restricted: a review of the three Australian Educational Institutions in Second Life

Further resources about libraries and online virtual worlds

• Flying Librarians of Oz:What’s all the fuss about Second Life and what’s it got to do with libraries?: slides from a public talk at the National Library of Australia, February 14th 2007
• Ten very good reasons why your librarians should be in Second Life  Librarians Matter, 30 April 2007
• Six very bad reasons to have a library branch in Second Life Librarians Matter, 1 May 2007
• Infoisland.org: Second Life Libraries blog
• Virtual.librariesinteract.info: Blog central for Australian Libraries in Other Worlds

This clip is a tour of some library services in the Information Archipelago

This is a 45 minute Audio file with slides. It is a recording of a talk by Kathryn Greenhill at the State Library of Victoria, 23 July 2007 - Virtual Libraries, Real Librarians: What libraries are doing in Second Life and how you can join in.