Communicating in SL™Nicola Marae Allain, PhD

MALET Reception

January 24, 2013

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Profile

Groups

Your Groups, Picks, and Introduction say a lot about who you are in SL. Savvy Slers read profiles.

Chat Box

You can type in the chat box on your bottom bar, or directly into the chat box. Keep track of chat when you are in SL.

IM

The same principle applies for IM. Note that I have to toggle between tabs to move from chat to IM and vice versa.

Notifications

Notifications appear in small boxes at the top of your screen. They inform you of incoming IMS, group chat, group.notices, when you are receiving incoming items, etc.

Notifications

When you click on notification icons, they enlarge to a dialog box providing more detail.

Note that my chat is also appearing here

Mini-Map

Note that my chat is also appearing here

The Mini-Map Shows You Where People Are. Green Dots = Avatars

Follow the Green Dots

Follow the dots to find the people.

Isle of Wyrms Group Communication Channels:

• Isle of Wyrms Help Forum – Provides 24 hour live assistance drawing from international citizenry.

• Isle of Wyrms Citizen’s Group- Invitation Only, for citizens to chat as they please. Moderated, with rules of engagement.

• Council of Hatchlings, Council of Wyrmlings, Council of Wyrms- Invitation Only, after authentication and by registration. For admin notices only, no chat allowed.

• Isle of Wyrms Conference Hall- Staff Communications Channel. Gives staff immediate access to each other and to IOW highest levels of leadership.

Group Examples

Immersive Communications Strategies

• Live one-to-one assistance (avatars helping avatars): in-world staffing of places new visitors are most likely to visit. Consider how this might work in providing support for learning experiences.

• 24 h Live Help Forum using a group chat function. How may this be applied in an immersive educational setting?

• Multilingual Notecards dispensed from scripted posters and given out by avatar helpers

• In-World Posters that give out notecard information

• The Herald, a monthly newspaper

• Highly Detailed, Interactive Scripted Objects creating the immersive experience

Cathedral: The Immersive Experience

Community in ActionDragons assisting Dragons

Nicola Marae Allain, Ph. D., Faculty/Mentor & Academic Area Coordinator, Humanities/Digital MediaCore Faculty, Master of Arts in Learning & Emerging TechnologiesChair, Center Personnel CommitteeCenter for Distance Learning,Empire State College, State University of New York 

Ragitake Takakura in Second Life

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