VEJ June 2013

briefly explained that we were going to add more information to this spreadsheet so that people can find educational sims that meet their needs, in Second Life or on other grids.

We had 23 people all working on this spreadsheet at the same time. It was so cool to watch the changes taking place--I’ve never had that much fun looking at a spreadsheet before!

Marie Booz organized a second session at VSTE on Monday, May 6, titled Hunting Educational Sims. We split into teams and roamed Second Life looking for more sims to add, or updating existing information. This time we took an additional step: we added pictures and descriptions of the sims to the Second Life VSTE Members Ning (http://vsteonline.ning.com/group/secondlifevstemembers/forum/topics/hu nting-educational-sims-in-second-life).

This process proved to be time-consuming, but the pictures give a wonderful visual side to the information, and can be accessed by people who haven’t experienced Second Life yet.

What’s next? In order for this project to be really useful, it needs to be an online database, rather than a spreadsheet. This would enable us to include many types of information (pictures, SLurls, etc) in an easily sortable format.

It also needs to be updated frequently, to stay current and to include new sims and virtual worlds. Then, it needs to be publicized to the people who need to use it (even if they don’t know that yet).

Again, this seems really overwhelming, but at least we’ve begun to sort out the many sims that are available to educators.

If you have ideas, feel free to contact me at booklady99999@gmail.com.

RL: Beth O’Connell SL: Beth Ghostraven 162