The Appalachian Ohio K-12 Second Life Learning Community is funded by the Ohio Learning Network and involves teachers from Athens High School, Meigs High School, Athens Middle School, and Alexander Middle School; as well as faculty members and graduate students from Ohio University. The goal of this learning community is to

1. Create teaching aids and interactive science experiments in Second Life that are based on the Ohio K-12 Science Academic Content Standards,
2. Help K-12 teacher community members use these Second Life teaching aids in class, and
3. Establish an active community of K-12 teachers, Ohio University faculty members and graduate students who are interested in introducing synthetic worlds to classroom.

Meetings

• K12 SLLC Meeting on 1/25/2007
• Additional meetings are listed at: http://www.library.ohiou.edu/sllc/index.php/Meetings

Communication

A Google Group is used to facilitate communication among community members.

• Email: oln-k12-sllc@googlegroups.com
• URL: http://groups.google.com/group/oln-k12-sllc

Venue

Most learning community events take place on the Ohio STEAM sim on the Teen Grid or the Ohio University sims on the Main Grid.

Information

• http://teen.secondlife.com/parents/discipline
• Second Life viewer uses the network ports described in the following two documents:
  • http://secondlife.com/whatis/faq.php "Second Life needs to connect to ports 443/TCP, 12035/UDP, 12036/UDP, and 13000-13050/UDP."
  • http://secondlife.com/knowledgebase/article.php?id=355 "Outbound TCP port 12043" is used for "teleporting, viewing the World Map, crossing regions, and related activities"

Members

Name	Title	Affiliation	SL MG Avatar	SL TG Avatar
Chang Liu	Assistant Professor	Ohio University	Chang Tuxing	Chang Meyer
Jennifer Henson	Teacher	Meigs High School
Kathy Hudson	Teacher	Meigs High School
Tim Simpson	Teacher	Meigs High School
Mark Thomas	Technology Coordinator	Meigs Local School District
Jeff Slattery	Teacher	Athens High School
Andrea Anderson	Teacher	Athens High School
Shiow Chang	Teacher	Athens High School
En Ye	Ph.D. student	Ohio University	Yearn Au	En Xi
Bruce Bilyeu	Masters Student	Ohio University	Bruno Burali	Brutus Buckler
Josh Schendel	Master's Student	Ohio University
Yanhui Fang	Ph.D. Student	Ohio University