1. Virtual Worlds: 8-Tracks or iPods? 8-Tracks or iPods? AJ Kelton Director, CHSS Technology Services Unit College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Montclair State University

2. World vs. Environment Environment Environment

3. 8-Track or iPod? Which will Virtual Worlds be? 8-Track iPod New Technology New Technology “ Roman Candle” “ Search Light” Impact: Minimal Impact: Maximum No Current Relevance Changed an industry

4. What do you already know about Second Life? Second Life? Why talk about Second Life?

9. A Universe of Virtual Worlds Second Life Active World There SL Teen Grid Whyville Toontown Webkins Virtual Earth Home Metaverse Protosphere Muse Coke Studios Sims Online Dreamville TowerChat Traveler Habbo Hotel The Manor Mokitown Cybertown Virtual Ibiza Voodoo Chat Playdo Worlds.com Moove The Palace

23. Students visit the always available site

24. They enter the learning space

25. Explore and orient themselves

26. Encounter your assigned tasks

32. Hold Meetings In-world

34. The CHSS Pilot Project

35. Recreate What Exists

36. Walk into a story

37. Always “On” Content

39. Traditional Spaces

40. Create Something New

41. Engage Your Students

55. Challenges

57. Challenges

58. Genome Island

59. The Second Louvre

60. NOAA

61. Business

62. Spaceport Alpha and Delta

63. Renaissance Island

64. San Francesco Assisi

65. InfoIsland

66. Princeton

67. The Sistine Chapel Vassar Vassar

69. Vassar Island

70. The Lost Gardens of Apollo

71. Abbott’s Aerodrome

75. ?

76. Virtual Worlds: 8-Tracks or iPods? AJ Kelton Director, CHSS Technology Services Unit http://www.sorry-afk.com keltona at mail dot montclair dot edu College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Montclair State University Special Thanks to Laura Nicosia for all her support and a few of the slides we’d used in a presentation we made together. Also, to Sarah Robbins for the inspiration to keep thinking about a lot of this stuff.