My Sloodle presentation for the Austrian Moodle conference - http://mk.campus02.at/

1. Alja Sulčič
Second Life
a
for Moodle

2. = +
web-based
virtual 3D learning
enviornment
enviornment

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

6. 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

7. 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)

8. Tools for travel
You can walk
and fly...
... or teleport
anywhere in an instant!

9. Tools for creating and
shaping the world
//pic
‣ 3D prim building
‣ Linden Scripting Language
‣ texture, sound and animation
import

10. 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

11. Second Life
for Education?

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

13. 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

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

16. Second Life Grid Status block

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

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

19. Activities/tools:
‣ Sloodle Toolbar
‣ Sloodle Set
‣ Chat Logger
‣ Quiz Chair
‣ Prim Drop

20. Sloodle toolbar

21. Chat Logger

22. The future?

23. 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 %

24. connections
better
getting to know and using the
advantages of each
environment
other
bringing Moodle to
virtual worlds

25. Questions?

26. 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