a Second Life for Moodle

Alja Sulčič

+=web-basedlearning

enviornmentvirtual 3D

enviornment

A virtual world is a computer-based simulated environment intended for its

users to inhabit and interact via avatars.Wikipedia

http://ialja.blogspot.com

Second Life is a user-created world!

Virtual Morocco

Second House of Sweden

Little Roma International Spaceflight Museum

Abbots Aerodrome

Teaching

Berkman Sandbox

in private (Instant Messages -IM)

- or - in public

(places or group IM)verbally

(text or/and voice chat)- and -

non-verbally (visual appearance, proxemics,

gestures and animations)

Communication tools

Tools for travelYou can walk and fly...

... or teleport anywhere in an instant!

Tools for creating and shaping the world

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‣3D prim building‣Linden Scripting Language‣ texture, sound and animation

import

US$ L$

Linden DollarsSecond Life currency

(1 US$ ≈ 270 L$)

real money trading (RMT)

L$ can be used on the

web or in-world

Second Life for Education?

Many educational institutions already

have their virtual campuses

Ohio University

Harvard Law School

NMC Campus

‣ programming,‣ natural sciences,‣ economics,‣ law,‣ foreign languages,‣ literature,‣ art, ...

There are courses being taught within Second Life on a

variety of subjects:

Learning about cell structure within a 3D cell model

Second Life residents can attend a number of

(often free) educational events:

‣ conferences,‣ lectures,‣ discussions,‣ interviews,‣ book readings, ....

Second Life Grid Status block

+ Course management+ Activities/tools

Sloodle module Scripted objects

(Moodle 1.6 & 1.8)

‣ Sloodle Registration Booth

‣ Sloodle Enrolment Booth

‣ Sloodle Access Checker

‣ Login Zone

Course management:

Activities/tools:‣ Sloodle Toolbar

‣ Sloodle Set

‣ Chat Logger

‣ Quiz Chair

‣ Prim Drop

Sloodle toolbar

Chat Logger

The future?

By the end of 2011, 80 % of active Internet users (and Fortune 500 enterprises) will have a

“second life”, but not necessarily in Second Life.April 2007, Gartner Inc.

80 %

better connections

getting to know and using the advantages of each

environment

bringing Moodle to other virtual worlds

Questions?

More information:‣ Second Life:

- http://www.secondlife.com- http://www.simteach.com- http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~mpepper/slbib

‣ Sloodle:- http://www.sloodle.com

alja@artesia.sihttp://ialja.blogspot.com