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== =SLCC09= =Must play well with others:= =Recruiting,= =Supporting and Inspiring collaborative projects=

Abstract
Few educators using Second Life are engaged in solo projects. Most are involved on some level with academic groups or collaborative organizations. Project success depends on learning to work together as a team, the ability to bring in new collaborators and projects, and working together to generate and implement new ideas. In this session, educators from different organizations, with different roles and projects will describe a variety of ways they promote, recruit, support, and develop Second Life activities. The audience will also have an opportunity to discuss and contribute their own examples.

Panelists
Jane Wilde (Esme Qunhua in Second Life) is an International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) volunteer, an instructor at three universities where she teaches graduate education courses in Instructional Technology and a doctoral student at the University at Albany (NY USA). She has taught a grad course called Teaching and Learning in Virtual Worlds for the last three terms, that meets in SL. For ISTE Wilde leads bi-weekly tours to sims of educational importance. ||
 * [[image:myavatars1.jpg align="left"]]Kenneth Day  (Pacifico Piaggio, Pacific Tigerpaw, Eamon McDowwll and Tony Spiegel in Second Life)  is Professor of Communication and Interim Virtual Worlds Manager at the University of the Pacific. Besides his work with virtual worlds for the University of the Pacific and as a Communication instructor in Second Life, he heads his own virtual worlds application consulting company called Meta Navigators. Along with Tammy DeCoste (Knota Writer), he is experimenting with a non-profit project that rents small parcels of land to educators in Second Life on the Timbucks SIM as a means of building community. As a pro-bono service project, he is constructing a Comanche language instructional build for Comanche Nation on the Meta Navigators SIM. ||
 * David Horrar (Oggie Balli nger in Second Life) has been involved with computers for over 30 years. Despite that, he started college as a Psychology student but soon discovered that computers were much easier to fix than people so he returned to his true calling. He is currently the Departmental Information Technology Analyst for the Office of Student Affairs at the University of Louisville in Kentucky. He is one of three people that administer the University of Louisville presence in Second Life. He was born in Second Life in February of 2007. ||
 * [[image:Alice_smallish.jpg align="left"]]Beth Kraemer (Alice Burgess in Second Life) is a librarian in the Information Technology division of the University of Kentucky Libraries. Her current interests include social networking and Second Life. Beth has been involved in Second Life since January 2007. In that time she has been active in library projects in both the teen and adult worlds and helped establish the University of Kentucky presence in Second Life. ||
 * [[image:thynka_headshot.jpg width="148" height="175" align="left"]] LuAnn Phillips (Thynka Little in Second Life) works as the Virtual Worlds Coordinator for [|eXtension] (pronounced E-extension), which is an Internet-based educational partnership of the Land-Grant University system, specifically addressing models for collaborative work and delivery of their Cooperative Extension community-based educational programs. Phillips' job is to introduce Extension educators and staff to virtual worlds, to support efforts to experiment and explore how to use them for extension education, to create and maintain a Cooperative Extension presence in Second Life, and to keep eXtension informed about emerging trends and issues in the use of virtual worlds for education. ||
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