SL Project Introductions on Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=8320018359
A Facebook account designed to put schools/teachers together who are interested in cross school and student collaborative projects.
So if you are looking for a partner school to do some work with in Second Life then this is an area that might be of interest to you.
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PacificRim Exchange : Project
http://pacificrimx.wordpress.com/
PacificRim Exchange : Project .. between students in Japan and the USA
The Pacific Rim Exchange program grew out of a dinner conversation between a group of teachers in my district and a visiting group of teachers from our sister school in Kyoto, Japan (Kyoto Gakuen High School). We were discussing the possibility of setting up video conferencing between our schools so that our future exchange students could interact prior to their exchanges, possibly getting to know each other a bit, and maybe if we were lucky they would learn a little of their host country’s language before their exchange.
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Land of Lincoln SIM in Teen Grid
http://tinyurl.com/ysvnh3
Land of Lincoln sim. This sim is owned by the Alliance Library System in East Peoria, Illinois.
It is a public sim but will consider making parcels private while a class is in session. The intention of the project is to be a historical sim focusing on the 1850's and 1860's. Activities such as designing clothes from the time period, role playing, and creating machinima are some things that will take place on the sim. Please email lbell927 at gmail dot com or eye4youalliance at gmail dot com for more information.
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Teen Second Life: Adult Clearance Procedure
http://tslclear.blogspot.com/
Teen Second Life: Adult Clearance Procedure
Before you begin the application process for Teen Grid clearance, understand a few important basics ....
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Eye4You Island (Alliance)
http://eye4youalliance.youthtech.info/
Eye4You Island (Alliance)
An ‘island’ in Second Life which will allows teens to create and contribute and allow approved adults to work with teens, 13-17 years old.
The island is a result of a partnership between the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County in NC and the Alliance Library System in IL.
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Setting up an island in the Teen Grid
http://schome.open.ac.uk/wikiworks/index.php/SNP_preparation
If you are thinking of setting up an island in the Teen Grid then this page should be of interest to you - it explains some aspects of setting up a Teen Grid island, getting adults into the island, and bulk registering students.
This involved four steps:
1. Buying SchomeBase and Schome Park (our islands in the Main and Teen Grids respectively)
2. Developing SchomeBase (so that it looked exactly like we wanted Schome Park to look like)
3. Mirroring SchomeBase onto Schome Park
4. Sorting out any problems on Schome Park following the mirroring
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Global Kids Island monthly newsletter
http://groups.google.com/group/GKVirtualWorldUpdate
Global Kids Island monthly newsletter ... distribute in-world on the teen grid
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Second Life: Educators Working with Teens
http://tinyurl.com/shcey
Second Life: Educators Working with Teens
This is a VERY comprehensive 'official' S.L. page ... a MUST read if you are considering working in the teen grid with students.
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Playing BPE - Globalkids Bixby
http://www.slcn.tv/bpe-globalkids-bixby
Playing BPE - Globalkids Bixby (Video Interview)
Barry Joseph (Globalkids Bixby-SL), Director of Global Kids' Online Leadership Program - "(Educator's) History of the Teen Grid - A Global Kids Choose-Your-Own-Best-Practices Adventure".
Barry delivers a brief history of the Global Kids program on the Teen Grid in Second Life, and demonstrates a tool they developed to incorporate audience participation into Second Life presentations.
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Daniel Voyager in TSL's photos
http://www.flickr.com/photos/danielvoyager/
Daniel Voyager in TSL's photos ... photographs taken in the teen grid.
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Island in the teen grid: Metaversa (Blog)
http://www.metaversa.de/island/
Island in the teen grid: Metaversa
Metaversa is an non-profit organization from Berlin/Germany for media, education and culture. Our goal is to enlarge democratic and social skills with media education.
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Global Kids' Digital Media Initiative
http://www.holymeatballs.org/
Global Kids' Digital Media Initiative
Welcome to the blog for Global Kids' Online Leadership Program.
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The schomeNAGTY Teen Second Life Pilot
http://kn.open.ac.uk/public/getfile.cfm?documentfileid=11344
The schomeNAGTY Teen Second Life Pilot Final Report
This report provides a brief overview of key ‘findings’ emerging from the schome-NAGTY Teen Second Life Pilot. There is extensive additional information about the Pilot on the schome community website www.schome.ac.uk
The Pilot set out to explore the educational potential and pitfalls of Teen Second Life, a
secure 3D virtual world for 13 to 17 year olds. 149 students from NAGTY (The National
Association of Gifted and Talented Youth) were provided with access to Schome Park (an island in Teen Second Life) which was intended to be used as an integral part of the the schome community website (wiki and forum).
These students were referred to as SParkers.
During the Pilot a great deal was learnt about the pragmatics of using Second Life to enhance learning. It seems clear that Second Life does offer affordances that other media lack and that it has the potential to offer powerful new forms of support for learning, particularly in relation to knowledge age skills.
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Teen Grid Second Life
http://teen.secondlife.com/
Teen Grid Second Life ...
Teen Second Life is an international gathering place for teens 13-17 to make friends and to play, learn and create.
In Second Life, teens can create and customize a digital self called an "avatar," fly through an ever-changing 3D landscape, chat and socialize with other teens from all over the world, and build anything from skyscrapers to virtual vehicles.
It’s more than a videogame and much more than an Internet chat program – it’s a boundless world of surprise and adventure that encourages teens to work together and use their imaginations.
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Skoolaborate
http://www.skoolaborate.com/
Skoolaborate provides schools from around the world with the opportunity to collaborate in a single 'virtual' educational environment. Using Teen Second Life as it's base.
It consists of several islands that are collaboratively run by partner schools and their students. It also has a blog, a wiki and soon, integrated units of work and a adult grid presence.
Skoolaborate aims to provide a common place to share and try ideas around how virtual worlds and web 2.0 technologies can engage our students and increase their learning outcomes.
In the longer term we hope to make our virtual experiences meaningful and authentic by running a series of events aimed at improving the educational outcomes for all students.
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