Usage of Second Life

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THIS SECTION NEEDS LOTS OF EDITING - AND A NUMBER OF ARTICLES SHOULD BE SPUN OFF IT

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Personal

Second Life has been built to provide a massive multi-user online social environment, in which people can meet, chat, flirt, argue and generally behave much as they might do in Real Life.

Commercial

Education

  • Outreach to off-campus & distance learning students
  • Courses
  • Faculty meetings
  • Digital media department experimentation
  • Co-operation and information sharing between education institutions
  • Co-operation and information sharing with libraries
  • Blending visual, kinetic and auditory learning

Second Life achieves at least 2 purposes:

  1. It provides a large Community of Interest
  2. It allows a community to convene without incurring significant cost.

SLoodle describes itself as a virtual environment learning system, combining the Second Life virtual environment and the Moodle learning system. This whitepaper talks about putting a Second Life "metaverse" skin on learning management systems.


Libraries

  • New channel to library users
  • Outreach
  • Co-operation and information sharing between libraries
  • Co-operation and information sharing with educational institutions

Second Life achieves at least 2 purposes:

  1. It provides a large Community of Interest
  2. It allows a community to convene without incurring significant cost.


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