Glendale Community offers free virtual real estate to students
By Lyle DillieManaging Editor, The Voice
Glendale Community College has been continually developing and improving GCC's presence in Second Life. Now the GCCAz Island offers students a piece of the pie. Starting in December a student with a great idea can get a parcel of land free on the GCCAz island.
As an Internet-based virtual world, Second Life can be downloaded at http://www.secondlife.com. You become an avatar, or resident, creating a virtual version of yourself or who you want to be. Residents can explore, meet other residents, socialize, participate in individual and group activities, create and trade items and services from one another. The Second Life Client can be copied to the D drive of any eGCC computer by copying the Second Life Folder and its contents at S:appfilesSecondlife. Just copy and paste it.
"We think students should have the opportunity to expand the GCCAz Second Life experience." says Jim Daugherty, faculty director of Technology Research and Implementation.
Locations are being offered around the virtual GCC Parthenon. Each parcel will contain over 576 square virtual meters of space. Students can build on the space up to 700 meters high. The lease on land will be set-up on a semester by semester basis. Twenty-one parcel are available for use my students.
In order to get one of these parcels you need to have a plan. In order to get a parcel your idea for it should have a connection to learning.
You can send your ideas with an e-mail to dl-gc-secondlife@gcmail.mariciopa.edu. Your proposal should include a tentative name of project, list, diagrams, or sketches of the building being made, the activity being planned and be sure provide your explanation on its connection to learning.
