Saxty's+Virtual+Worlds+Wiki

**What is virtual worlds?** Virtual world is an online community that takes the form of a computer – based simulated environment. In virtual worlds, people can look into creating different scenarios and different types of worlds.
 * Virtual Worlds**

**How it works?** It's a real time 3D environment in which a user takes on a specific role, one example is Second Life.

**Educational uses for virtual worlds:** Virtual worlds is a growing social interaction community that can evolve as a basis for collaborative education in the classroom. It can provide the ability for students to carry out tasks and assignments through another type of scenario. For example, a student can be given a specific task and through the Virtual World, he/ she can play out several different scenarios before finalizing the task. In Second Life (SL) which is a virtual world developed by Linden Lab, users called residents interact with each other. This can be utilized in education. Students can learn about the different types of Virtual Words to understand specific economic, relationship and business models of the world.

**How does virtual worlds can enhance learning?**

Virtual life can strongly enhance learning by providing a platform of scenario base were students can look into different types of scenarios before providing answers to questions. For example in a History class, a teacher can create a virtual colonial world. The lesson will be to create a colony. Students can receive a “hands – on” experience of what it took the colonist to create a colony. What economic factors are needed, communication as well as unity among them. Virtual worlds can create a 3D experience to education, keeping students engaged.

**List of applications with links to them**

Thoughts from Training Time- Virtual Worlds []

The Power of Virtual Worlds- A Second Life Primer [|clive-shepherd.blogspot.com/2008/11/caspian-ils-taxonomy.html]

 What is Virutal worlds- An insight of what is vritual worlds  [|http://en./wiki/Virtual_worlds]

Second Life – How to Use Second Life []

Virtual Words – The online life []

Virtual Worlds Overview – Categories to Virtual Words []

Virtual Words for Kids- Online Virtual []