Virtual_Worlds

=**Virtual Worlds and Higher Education**=


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Virtual Worlds: What are they?"
[|Wikipedia: Virtual Worlds]

Why Virtual Worlds? Creativity, Collaboration, Community
[|Do Schools Kill Creativity? Sir Ken Robinson (TEDtalks video)] (3 mins 18 secs)

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Creativity, Collaboration, Community in Second Life
[|Exploring Virtual Worlds] (3 mins)

[|Educators Coop: Exploring Virtual Worlds]

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[|Science Learning Opportunities in Second Life] (3 mins 25 secs)

[|SciLands]

Science in Second Life wiki

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[|Blending Realities](3 mins 45 secs)

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[|Watch the World(s) (Robbie Dingo)] (4 mins 17 secs)

[|Digital Double (Robbie Dingo's blog)]

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UK Post-Secondary Education Institutions in Second Life
[|A July 2007 snapshot of UK HE and FE activity in Second Life]

[|Eduserv in Second Life]

The Future?
[|Photosynth]

[|Photosynth on MS Live]

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[|MultiTouch Screen (Jeff Han)]

[|Perceptive Pixel]

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[|Creating tech marvels out of a $40 Wii Remote (Johnny Lee)]

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Videos
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Background
[|Review of James Paul Gee "What video games have to teach us about learning and literacy"]

Other Online Resources
[|Massively Multiplayer Online Game Data]

Boracay Wiki [|SLmetrics for Boracay]

[|SimTeach Wiki]

SLeducation Wiki

[|NMC Campus Wiki]

[|MIT on Second Life]

[|Info Islands] funded by the [|Alliance Library System]

[|LanguageLab.com]

[|English Village]

[|Global Kids: Digital Media Initiative]

[|Pacific Rim X (US-Japan schools collaboration)]

[|Slideshare Presentations on Virtual Worlds]

[|Slideshare Presentations on Second Life]

[|Del.icio.us links for Second Life Education]

[|Del.icio.us links for Virtual Worlds]

[|Second Life Economy]

Virtual Worlds
[|Second Life] ( [|System requirements] [|download] )

[|HiPiHi]

[|Open Croquet]

[|Multiverse]

[|Active Worlds]

[|Sun Microsystems MKP20]

[|Virtual Worlds Comparison Chart]

For a comprehensive list, see this wiki page