From: umhealthscienceslibraries, 1 month ago
A brief, half hour presentation for the School of Dentistry Bootcamp series, reduced from a 2 hour session taught in Second Life during Enriching Scholarship 2008.
From: umhealthscienceslibraries, 1 year ago
Part 2 of a 2 part series designed to engage health and science academicians with Second Life for teaching and research. Part 2 focuses on necessary skills and streamlining the learning process to become active in Second Life (especially getting through Orientation and Help Islands efficiently).
What is Scratch for Second Life (S4SL)?
S4SL is a new easy way to add behaviors and interactivity to your objects in Second Life. S4SL is based on Scratch, a graphical programming language that lets you construct programs by snapping together graphical blocks. With S4SL, you can snap together a few blocks to make your SL pet interact with you using chat commands, make your sculpture change size and color, or make your house respond to your presence.
- News from the Podosphere
- Blackboard World ’08 – Las Vegas, July 15-17, 2008
- Rod’s Podcaster Guide & E-Learning News
- Lively – Google’s new Second Life killer
- Knol – Google’s new Wikipedia killer
- Blending Blackboard and Second Life
- Interview with Mauri Collins, DEd, Instructional Designer, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
- Dr.
Collins is also an adjunct assistant professor at Boise State
University, where she co-teaches an innovative course: Teaching and
Learning in Second Life. She has been involved with computer-mediated
communication since 1987 and worked in distance education since 1992.- Her presentation shared teacher and learner experiences for those who plan to teach using Second Life.
- Second Life and Learning Spaces
- “it’s not just pixels on a screen”
- “Testicle in the Sky” (Slurl) by DrDoug Pennell (SL) aka Dr. Douglas R. Danforth of Ohio State University
- “Prim” – primitives, basic building blocks in SL
- Podsafe Music Selection from the Podsafe Music Network
- “Summertime” by Brother Love – one of the most popular tracks on the network
It may have been destroyed by cyber-vandals when it was first opened in 2006, but Wheelies, the virtual nightclub for people with disabilities, has been put up for a UK Catalyst award.
The virtual club’s creator Simon Stevens, from Coventry, has been put in a short-list for the People’s Choice Award that celebrates community on the web. Other entrants include: The Wiki Project, My Neighbourhoods, and Boom! Boom!.
Congratulations to Simon, Linda, and everyone else who has worked on Wheelies!
