Orienting My Students to Second Life: Using You Tube

Using You Tube Videos on SL to Orient Your Students

In the hybrid/blended section of the course, I took time in the f2f to show various You Tube Videos on Second Life. In the online section, I had students watch the videos as part of the oroientation to SL.

This seemed to get students interested in using Seoncd Life. Also, it helped them understand the dyanamics of Second Life.

I asked them to consider the following questions when reviewing the videos:

How can organizations effectively implement a new communication technology like Second Life? What are the individual, organizational, and social implications of this kind of implementation?

Here are a selection of videos that I used:

General Overviews of Second Life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxj8RTW4ev4&feature=related (Second Life - Get one!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b72CvvMuD6Q (Introduction to Second Life: Business Perspective)

Using Second Life in Organizations
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ly4LIxzGZM (IBM and SL)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XXK96XO2K0 (CNN and SL)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsSmZAqL6tQ (Reuters and SL)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNjxucDI8bo (Manpower and SL, Virtual Work)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTQkzfz5osQ (Second Life Libraries)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9VZKTT6gZ8 (NMC Campus)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOFU9oUF2HA (Educational Uses of SL)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFuNFRie8wA&feature=related (Ohio University in SL)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovL4pZod_gw&feature=related (Second Life Apple Store)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YxJHcfe0UQ (Fatboy Slim in SL)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpbuW-s-oNI (Doing Business 2008 Report Gets a Second Life - World Bank)