pics of my school #2

[Gerald Smith]

the First pic shows my penthouse conference room  (center tower) as it is now. The screen has a PowerPoint presentation set up.

The second pic shows the front of my classroom on the 10th floor of the right hand tower. in front is a browser screen set up for Twiddla.  I am pointing something out on it with the laser pointer I wear on my right ear. it pponts automatically to whatever I have the mouse pointer on.  On the left is the bright media Browser set up to a notebook page on my Sage Math server that I have on RackSpace Cloud.

The third pic shows some of the SLOODLE stuff I am displaying in the lobby of the center tower.

the fourth pic shows me standing by the bright media Screen facing the back of my personal  clkassroom. in the left back corner is the elevator that gives access to the room. The back of the room shows the dedicated Zebra Power Point Presentation presenter screen, another freebie I got at an educational conference I attended on Second Life.  On the low table is a laptop which controls the screen.

The last pic shows my complex from the back at ground level at night. Straight ahead you can see into the 120 seat stadium to the giant media screen at the back. On the right through the window you can see into the  lobby of the center tower and see some more SLOODLE stuff.

[David Joyner]

What is sloodle?

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[Dan Drake]

On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 at 05:21PM -0400, David Joyner wrote:
> What is sloodle?

A sort of mashup between Second Life and Moodle. A colleague of mine at
KAIST was really into that -- you do things in Second Life and the
result gets automatically posted to Moodle as your response to an
assignment, and so on.

Dan

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[Gerald Smith]

I kind of cringe at the word "Mashup"  ^,..,^  It sounds like a terrible accident. In my experience it is an implementation of MOODLE on Second Life.  You can use a MOODLE account to do anything from amanaging a couple of classes to running a major school. SLOODLE is a project that has been going on for several years. A number of accessory virtual technologies have been created by the SLOODLE team to use in Second Life, all free. On example is you can set up enrollment booths on your school in Second Life that students can sign up for classes at in second Life. You also have atransparent shapeable barrier you can put at the entrance to your calssroom to only allow enrolled students to pass. You can create kiosks that will let students get homework assignments or leave their finished work.  One contraption is an examination chair that rises up higher for each question on a quiz the student answers right and goes down for each wrong answer, good for competitive situations between students. I think there is a more extreme version in which the student stands on the glass cover over a tank fill og ravenous sharks. Too many wrong answers and in you go! yOu can find out more information on www.sloodle.org though it helps if you know something about how Second Life works. To set it up, you need to have a moodle account on some server somewhere. I think you can set one up free on Freehostia or GoDaddy. They offer a MOODLE set up as an option when you get an account and you just click on that and everything gets set up automatically. Your educational institution may have their own server and let you use that. Once you have an online MOODLE account, you download whichever version of SLOODLE from the above mentioned website and follow their instructions to set up and link your MOODLE site to youe Second Life account. once you do this, you can rez in whatever SLOODLE goodies appeal to you. Some require that you register the item to a particular course you have set up on MOODLE.  MOODLE was originally created as a free and open source alternative to the expensive and aging proprietary program BLACKBOARD.  All reports I have read from those who are experienced with both say MOODLE is superior.
Cheers!
Jerry

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