Global Kids Second Life Curriculum
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Introduction to the Global Kids Second Life Curriculum.
Global Kids, Inc. is a nationally recognized leader in using digital media to promote global awareness and youth civic engagement. Global Kids’ Online Leadership Program integrates a youth development approach and international and public policy issues into youth media programs that build digital literacy and STEM skills, foster substantive dialogues, develop resources for educators, and promote civic participation.
In 2006, following research into the educational potential of virtual worlds, Global Kids became the first non-profit to develop a dedicated space for conducting programming in the virtual world of Teen Second Life (TSL). This work has been made possible through funding by or partnerships with the MacArthur Foundation, UNICEF, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Field Museum, IBM, the Motorola Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Ashoka’s Youth Ventures, the Microsoft Corporation, and a variety of school and after-school programs, amongst others. More specifically, Global Kids conducts intensive leadership programming for youth, bringing teenagers from its New York-based programs into the virtual world, working with youth already involved with TSL, and collaborating remotely with youth organized through schools, museums, and libraries.
Global Kids works with adults as well, conducting programs within Second Life on a range of issues, streaming the audio and video of major events and conferences into Second Life, and offering a range of professional development services, such as managing RezEd.org, the hub for learning and virtual worlds.
Global Kids’ Second Life Curriculum is a key component of Global Kids professional development services. They cover everything an educator or student would need to know to use Second Life, whether on their own or within an educational setting. At the same time, it teaches global literacy skills. Components of the curriculum can be used as hand-outs to develop specific Second Life-specific skills or within a broader educational program designed to teach such subjects as science, filmmaking or literature.
The curriculum is composed of nine sequential “levels.” Each level is composed of modules which, in turn, are composed of individual lesson plans or “missions”. In total there are 163 missions.
We offer these missions under a Creative Commons license (attribution-noncommercial-share alike) and encourage educators to adapt this curriculum in any way they see fit, but to always give credit to Global Kids and to share significant changes or best practices with other professionals implementing the curriculum at RezEd.org.
Building on its nationally recognized approach to using virtual worlds to promote global awareness and civic engagement, Global Kids offers services to nonprofits, educational organizations, and other institutions interested in using Second Life and other virtual worlds to extend their work. While Global Kids is proud to offer Global Kids’ Second Life Curriculum for free to all qualified educational institutions, Global Kids can be retained to adapt it for specific uses or train others in its use. More information can be found at GlobalKids.org/?id=50.
To download copies of the curriculum, please visit visit the nine discussion threads below.
Also, the curriculum is available in print via LuLu.com. You can order a B&W printed, bound version of the curriculum in it's entirety or individual, color printed booklets of any of the SL Curriculum levels.
This curriculum was developed by Global Kids Staff and co-produced with Cathy Arreguin. We are grateful to Kate Farrell, Sean Farrell, Blueman Steele, Jeremy Koester, Ross Perkins, Jonathan Richter, John Wallace, the Second Life Educators Listserv, and countless beta testers.
In 2006, following research into the educational potential of virtual worlds, Global Kids became the first non-profit to develop a dedicated space for conducting programming in the virtual world of Teen Second Life (TSL). This work has been made possible through funding by or partnerships with the MacArthur Foundation, UNICEF, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Field Museum, IBM, the Motorola Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Ashoka’s Youth Ventures, the Microsoft Corporation, and a variety of school and after-school programs, amongst others. More specifically, Global Kids conducts intensive leadership programming for youth, bringing teenagers from its New York-based programs into the virtual world, working with youth already involved with TSL, and collaborating remotely with youth organized through schools, museums, and libraries.
Global Kids works with adults as well, conducting programs within Second Life on a range of issues, streaming the audio and video of major events and conferences into Second Life, and offering a range of professional development services, such as managing RezEd.org, the hub for learning and virtual worlds.
Global Kids’ Second Life Curriculum is a key component of Global Kids professional development services. They cover everything an educator or student would need to know to use Second Life, whether on their own or within an educational setting. At the same time, it teaches global literacy skills. Components of the curriculum can be used as hand-outs to develop specific Second Life-specific skills or within a broader educational program designed to teach such subjects as science, filmmaking or literature.
The curriculum is composed of nine sequential “levels.” Each level is composed of modules which, in turn, are composed of individual lesson plans or “missions”. In total there are 163 missions.
We offer these missions under a Creative Commons license (attribution-noncommercial-share alike) and encourage educators to adapt this curriculum in any way they see fit, but to always give credit to Global Kids and to share significant changes or best practices with other professionals implementing the curriculum at RezEd.org.Building on its nationally recognized approach to using virtual worlds to promote global awareness and civic engagement, Global Kids offers services to nonprofits, educational organizations, and other institutions interested in using Second Life and other virtual worlds to extend their work. While Global Kids is proud to offer Global Kids’ Second Life Curriculum for free to all qualified educational institutions, Global Kids can be retained to adapt it for specific uses or train others in its use. More information can be found at GlobalKids.org/?id=50.
To download copies of the curriculum, please visit visit the nine discussion threads below.
Also, the curriculum is available in print via LuLu.com. You can order a B&W printed, bound version of the curriculum in it's entirety or individual, color printed booklets of any of the SL Curriculum levels.
This curriculum was developed by Global Kids Staff and co-produced with Cathy Arreguin. We are grateful to Kate Farrell, Sean Farrell, Blueman Steele, Jeremy Koester, Ross Perkins, Jonathan Richter, John Wallace, the Second Life Educators Listserv, and countless beta testers.
Discussion Forum
GK Second Life Curriculum Level 1 10 Replies
Started by Joyce Bettencourt. Last reply by Barry Joseph Apr 22.
Printed versions of the SL Curriculum Now Available to Order Online
Started by Joyce Bettencourt Oct. 27, 2008.
GK Second Life Curriculum Level 2
Started by Joyce Bettencourt Sep. 4, 2008.
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Comment by Barry Joseph on May 14, 2009 at 12:10pm - Jeremy, Awesome!
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Comment by Jeremy Kemp on May 14, 2009 at 2:38am
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Further improvements to GKCx - our wiki now has all original images placed and captioned. In addition, we have added links to helpful videos by Torley Linden to liven the illustrated nature of the resource. See the massive wiki here: http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=GKCx
MOST EXCITING: We have begun work on a quiz question bank here: http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/sl/index.php/GKCx/quizbank. Please feel free to add questions to these pages. Eventually I hope to make this bank freely available as an LMS-ready .zip file. People will be able to instantly upload these and arrange them. This also means the quizzes will be available in SL itself as part of the SLOODLE quiz chair tool.
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- The wiki now has all images from the PDF version included http://simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=GKCx
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- The wiki is ready for community edits now: http://simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=GKCx Please check the copyright statement which is a footer on all pages. This is very easy to change everywhere. The next important step will be to integrate high-rez images. We need hi-rez images, please. :-)
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Comment by Barry Joseph on October 7, 2008 at 9:58am
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Jeremy, We have all the image files. We will get them over to you.
And yeah, like the wiki site. Please let me know how you would like me to link to and describe the various resources you have created so I can link to them above.
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Comment by darcy on October 5, 2008 at 10:14pm - So glad to have found this! I joined SL 2 yrs ago so i could eventually find out about the Teen World, as i teach American and World History classes in high school...please let me know if and how i can be involved...
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- Joyce sent the Word docs - VERY helpful. But extracting 400 image files from 600+ pages of Word doc is nontrivial. If you have image files by themselves, it would be very helpful so I can start laying them into Wiki pages and upload SL textures. I don't understand "which urls and what phrases associated with them you'd like me to link to from the overall description above." I don't follow you... Do you mean linking into the Wiki site itself?
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Comment by Barry Joseph on October 2, 2008 at 10:04am
- Jeremy, Please check in with Joyce - I know she intended to send you all the photos and I THOUGHT already had. Also, please let me know specifically which urls and what phrases associated with them you'd like me to link to from the overall description above. Thanks for all of your and your dad's amazing work!
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- More progress! The Word Docs are now up: http://www.simteach.com/gkcx. In trying to load this beast into WikiBooks, we were told that the CC:nc license made it incompatible as the their license allows commercial use. So we (my father Steve Kemp and myself) are moving forward with the simteach.com/wiki site under the original CC:by/nc/sa license. Does anyone know an automated way to pull images out of Word or PDF files? There are hundreds here but embedded in Word and awkward to get at. Maybe Cathy still has originals? :-)
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Global Kids Second Life Curriculum contains over 160 lesson plans for teaching the basics of Second Life, whether in a classroom, a library, or at home.
The curriculum is available at no cost and is designed to be adaptable by practitioners for a variety of uses, from teaching science, to literature to global studies.
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