Private Top 5 (Last Weekend)
While doing some research on the educational uses of SL this weekend, I came across several excellent pages and documents which I think merit some more attention than to just be published under my Resources.
So here’s my private top 5 for the last weekend (in no particular order):
The first of these is called The Who, Where, When and How of Second Life as a teaching tool in 2006. This is a 14-page document prepared by Jeremy W. Kemp, divided into the sections “People”, “Locations”, “Events” and “Tools”.
For each of these, he presents some illustrated examples, finishing with a short outlook on “Trends to Watch in 2007″.
Another one is The Educational Potential of Second Life. Its author is Nicholas Johnson from Ohio State University. He outlines both the negative and the positive aspects of Second Life before listing some educational ideas and possibilites.
Also included is a section titled “A Beginner’s Guide for Educators” which contains various (SL)urls to explore when new to SL. Or to revisit later, of course. 
Next, there’s 101 Uses for Second Life in the College Classroom, which is a document written by Dr. Megan S. Conklin of Elon University. She talks about getting a class started (incuding both technical and organizational issues) and in-world dynamics before pointing out some sample assignments and examples for classroom objectives.
Here’s another interesting one: Seven Wonders of Second Life. This could be called a private initiative by Existential Paine to identify “the most creative and unique builds in SL that are well done and mind blowing”. 
He has started by listing his own recommendations and includes a call to action: Anyone can add his or her own list in a comment or trackback of the original blog entry.
The final one, many of you will already know - Top 20 Educational Locations in Second Life. But for those of you who don’t: It’s a wiki created to keep track of “the list of ‘top’ locations as decided by Wiki consensus”. At the moment, it contains examples for
Naturally, all of these recommendations come complete with SLurl.
If any of you would like to post your own (current or all-time) Top 5, I’m looking forward to your comments.
July 29th, 2007 at 5:27 am
Thank you for mentioning my post on your list. It was a lot of fun trying to narrow down the various places I’ve visited into seven nominations I’d consider as the Seven Wonders of SL.
I hope others will put in their nominations and who knows, maybe we’ll have an Unofficial Seven Wonders of Second Life
Thanks again!