by Ross Perkins
Both the SpeakEasy HUD tool by Dudeney Ge and the Serial Chat Feeder 2.0 HUD by Janor Slichter are available for free in the "Scripted Gadgets" vendor at the ICT Library on Info Island.
Serial Chat Feeder: Tool 10 of 19
http://ictlibrary.googlepages.com/icttools_chatfeed
SpeakEasy: Tool 17 of 19
http://ictlibrary.googlepages.com/icttools_speakeasy
Short overview: one wears the HUD (appears in top left) and, via the edit tool, drag & drop a notecard you've created into the Contents folder. Upon exiting the Edit screen, it's ready to use! Touching the HUD device makes the text (on the notecard you've created) appear. The Serial Chat Feeder (version 2) now allows the user to load up to 3 card and choose between them.
I have used the chat tool in the past - it is TREMENDOUS help for facilitating conversation, as the bulk of the talk/tour can be activated with a simple click, allowing one to answer questions, call on audience members, send IMs, rez objects as needed, and so on.
Note: When send a long line of text via the chat tool, have a good feel for how long it takes your audience to read it ... otherwise you "sound" like a Yankee (fast talkers) and folks around have a hard time keeping up, especially noobs who do not know how to access their chat history screen.
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Sunday, May 20, 2007
How about an open source OBJECT repository to enhance education in SL?
A question by Fire Centaur: ...Since we have all of these fabulous educators making great 3D objects for their presentations, why not create a repository where everyone could submit and catalog the objects they've created for their presentations... then, the community would have a rick library of presentation aids to use and share... I think this would be a great way to enhance the current SL education offerings... what do you think?
Jonathon Richeter (Wainbrave Bernal) responds...
We're aiming to do just that! Creating a repository and searchable database of Learning Objects available in Second Life with the help of the whole Community of Practice is precisely the aim of a newly funded "proof of concept" project called SLamander or The Salamander Project.
We have recently struck a partnership with MERLOT ( http://www.merlot.org/) to develop a typology of interrelated dimensions that are useful for educators of all stripes using this mileu.
We are also working with the good people at San Jose State - particularly Jeremy Kemp and a new group of mentors to assist teachers in SL (Greylin) - to develop the concept on several fronts: Salamander Tool development in Sloodle and a Salamander HUD and in testing things out prior to an official launch.
Right now, for example, we are working on developing the best way to create a slurl nomination and survey-based description tool that would log directly to a database. We will then filter these - possibly asking folks for further info - and then starting to place them in the MERLOT search interface. Next friday we're presenting at the Best Practices Conference on the concept and plan to be releasing more information about the particulars when they are more concrete such that we have capacity for folks to be more involved.
We should be ready for a full public announcement in the Fall 2007 - though this is a way of "getting the word out" now. ;)
Our initial effort, prior to officially partnering with MERLOT, was done here: http://www.eduisland.net/salamanderwiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
Anyone interested in this is welcome to suggest ideas, or get involved by emailing me: jrichter -at- uoregon . edu
Jonathon Richeter (Wainbrave Bernal) responds...
We're aiming to do just that! Creating a repository and searchable database of Learning Objects available in Second Life with the help of the whole Community of Practice is precisely the aim of a newly funded "proof of concept" project called SLamander or The Salamander Project.
We have recently struck a partnership with MERLOT ( http://www.merlot.org/) to develop a typology of interrelated dimensions that are useful for educators of all stripes using this mileu.
We are also working with the good people at San Jose State - particularly Jeremy Kemp and a new group of mentors to assist teachers in SL (Greylin) - to develop the concept on several fronts: Salamander Tool development in Sloodle and a Salamander HUD and in testing things out prior to an official launch.
Right now, for example, we are working on developing the best way to create a slurl nomination and survey-based description tool that would log directly to a database. We will then filter these - possibly asking folks for further info - and then starting to place them in the MERLOT search interface. Next friday we're presenting at the Best Practices Conference on the concept and plan to be releasing more information about the particulars when they are more concrete such that we have capacity for folks to be more involved.
We should be ready for a full public announcement in the Fall 2007 - though this is a way of "getting the word out" now. ;)
Our initial effort, prior to officially partnering with MERLOT, was done here: http://www.eduisland.net/salamanderwiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
Anyone interested in this is welcome to suggest ideas, or get involved by emailing me: jrichter -at- uoregon . edu
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Web interoperability
J. Kemp writes, "I always thought Web interoperability was the "killer app" for Second Life. Here are a few others that look very promising:"
Weather data - http://tinyurl.com/ycjatd
Trivia - http://www.sltrivia.com
Chatbot f/m Web database - http://tinyurl.com/2mbzcr
Reuters News and Blog HUD - http://tinyurl.com/2khcer
I did a quick vid on reference experiments:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=e8dWmxwK8Os
See the very last segment on the SLQuery tool.
SLBLD List, Jeremy Kemp, 14MAY07
Weather data - http://tinyurl.com/ycjatd
Trivia - http://www.sltrivia.com
Chatbot f/m Web database - http://tinyurl.com/2mbzcr
Reuters News and Blog HUD - http://tinyurl.com/2khcer
I did a quick vid on reference experiments:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=e8dWmxwK8Os
See the very last segment on the SLQuery tool.
SLBLD List, Jeremy Kemp, 14MAY07
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