Alja Sulčič
Second Life
a
for Moodle

= +
web-based
virtual 3D learning
enviornment
enviornment

A virtual world is a computer-based
simulated environment intended for its
users to inhabit and interact via avatars.
Wikipedia

Berkman Sandbox
Abbots Aerodrome
Virtual Morocco
Second Life
is a user-created world!
Second House of Sweden Teaching
International Spaceflight Museum
http://ialja.blogspot.com
Little Roma

Communication tools
private
in
(Instant Messages -IM)
- or -
public verbally
in
(places or group IM) (text or/and voice chat)
- and -
non-verbally
(visual appearance, proxemics,
gestures and animations)

Tools for travel
You 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

Linden Dollars
Second Life currency
real money trading (RMT)
US$ L$
≈
(1 US$ 270 L$)
L$ can be used on the
web or in-world

Second Life
for Education?

Harvard Law School
Many educational institutions already
have their virtual campuses
Ohio University NMC Campus

There are courses being taught
within Second Life on a
variety of subjects:
‣ programming,
‣ natural sciences,
‣ economics,
‣ law,
‣ foreign languages,
‣ literature,
‣ art, ...
Learning about cell structure within a 3D cell model

Second Life residents can attend a number of
educational events:
(often free)
‣ conferences,
‣ lectures,
‣ discussions,
‣ interviews,
‣ book readings, ....

Second Life Grid Status block

Sloodle module Scripted objects
+ Course management
+ Activities/tools
(Moodle 1.6 & 1.8)

Course management:
‣ Sloodle Registration Booth
‣ Sloodle Enrolment Booth
‣ Sloodle Access Checker
‣ Login Zone

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 %

connections
better
getting to know and using the
advantages of each
environment
other
bringing Moodle to
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.si
http://ialja.blogspot.com