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The SaLamander Project

Creating a Community-built index of Second Life content, activities, and tools of educational value using evidence-based approaches.


Welcome to the SaLamander Wiki - a folksonomy of practical and theoretical applications, builds and designs in the Virtual World of Second Life for the purposes of teaching and learning. The Salamander Project is a collaborative project open to ANY Second Life educator and coordinated by staff at The Center for Advanced Technology in Education at the University of Oregon. This project is open to educators affiliated with K-12, higher education, not-for-profit and corporate teaching and learning institutions interested in creating a resource that frames and focuses the need for a Community of Practice surrounding the aims of teaching and learning in the Second Life MUVE.

OPEN TO ALL PROFESSIONAL EDUCATORS: please register (top right corner of this page) and complete your professional SLED profile here

and contribute to the Vetted 3D Second Life Learning Asset Collection!


Partners

SaLamander Second Life 3D learning asset pipeline

identification --> content expert vetting --> dissemination
  • Use the SaLamander HUD inworld to identify SLED builds, tools, and people!
  • Log in to the Sloog [1] site and see what has been tagged with the HUD
  • Participate in discussions, events, design-based research and focus groups to determine the best criteria for judging the effectiveness of Second Life learning assets
  • Log in HERE and complete the details of useful SaLamander HUD tags for the SLED community to find, discuss, and vote on their value. For MERLOT, you may volunteer to review materials placed in the MERLOT database or placed in the MERLOT's Center for Learning in Virtual Environments community.
  • Register as a SaLamander Project member, connect with others and share your projects with other SL EDucators, link back to the SaLamander Wiki stubs you develop, help develop your SL ED Community of Practice!
  • Log in to the MERLOT's Center for Learning in Virtual Environments (CLIVE) [2] and see what SLED Learning Assets have made it through the review process


and contact Wainbrave Bernal or Silver Tomorrow inworld if you have questions or would like to participate in ANY of these layers of the expert vetting of SL Learning Assets for MERLOT [3].


Help on editing the SaLamander Wiki

The SaLamander uses MediaWiki to vet SL Learning assets to the MERLOT CLIVE Community. You can get some help learning how to edit MediaWiki sites from MediaWiki! [4]


SaLamander Project Participant Registration and Contact Information

Index of Catalogued Parcels in the SaLamander Project

The SaLamander 3D Learning Materials Typology


Learner Engagement Types

One useful way of categorizing Second Life creations for educators is by what the learners will DO when they engage with the build:

  • Experiential..............learners are immersed in the recreation of an experience or phenomenon.
  • Role play.................Second Life builds intended (or useful) for taking on a particular role for educational and/or entertainment purposes
  • Diagnostic................builds that engage the learner by asking questions that ascertain their knowledge through quizzes, prompts, or other assessment methods
  • Problem-solving...........Second Life builds with the intention that the learner solve a problem or some kind
  • Demonstration.............Demonstrations and presentations of information - as in museums, galleries, presentations, etc.
  • Collaborative.............Second Life locales and activities that demand and/or encourage a certain level of cooperation and collaboration
  • Constructive..............Second Life learning locations and activities that engage the learner in creating objects and building things, themselves
  • Skill Building............Second Life learning locations that focus on the development of skills (real world or Second Life)
  • Gaming....................Second Life learning that engages the learner in a goal-oriented, structured task with defined rules, elements of "fun", and an uncertain outcome

Learning Content Areas

  • Arts.....................Art History, Cinema, Dance, Fine Arts, General, Music, Photography, Theater
  • Business.................Accounting, Marketing, Business law, e-Commerce, Economics, Finance, General, International Business, Management, Management Information Systems
  • Education................General, Library and Information Education, Teacher Education, Teaching and Technology
  • Humanities...............General History, Linguistics and Literatures, Philosophy, Religion, World Languages & Cultures
  • Math.....................Statistics/Math, Statistics/Statistics & Probability
  • Science and Technology...Agriculture, Health, Information Technology, Nanotech, Physics, Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Software Design, Engineering, Fire Safety, General Science, Geology,
  • Social Sciences..........Anthropology, Statistics, Women's Studies, Criminal Justice, General, Geography, Law, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Sports and Games

Other 3D Learning Material Dimensions useful to Teaching and Learning in Second Life

please let us know if these (or other factors) should be included in the 3D Learning Materials template

References

  • Peer-Reviewed Journals (A convenient list of peer-reviewed journals interested in publishing about virtual worlds)

SLED Design Patterns and Lesson Plans

  • SLED Design Patterns (for builders or planners of SLED creations)
  • SLED Lesson Plans (a collection of ideas to prepare the facilitator of learning in SL)
  • SLED Syllabi (a collection of syllabi for those teaching with Second Life in formal institutions)

Research Methodologies on Learning Objects

Educational Tools and other Objects in Second Life

Second Life Education websites, listservs, and other resources of note

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