into the 3rd dimension with sloodle
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Second Life and SLOODLE keynote presentation from ILT2009, Wrecsam, Wales, 1st July 2009TRANSCRIPT
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Into theThird Dimension
withSLOODLE
Daniel Livingstone
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Daniel Livingstone
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Teaching & Learning with Moodle
• Document dissemination• Coursework submissions• Management tools/tracking
– Gradebooks
• Learning object integration• Asynchronous & synchronous
discussion• Online Assessments• Collaborative learning activities
From Space
To Place
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Learning in 3D MUVE
• Informal Learning in MMOGs– Social interaction and coordination– Planning, problem solving
• Various MUVEs– Shared ‘Presence’
• Exploration, discovery– Synchronous work
• Shared experiences, discussion– Identity exploration
• Playful learning, shifting roles
• Second Life (and a few others…)– User generated content
A Virtual World is a
Place… for
education?
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Teaching in SL: My first experience• Virtual world too
open-ended, lack of obvious goals, rich social & technical environment
• Students needed support for working towards goals and reflecting on experiences– Second Life can be
distracting, confusing, hard to navigate
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SLOODLE Concept Diagram
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In the beginning…
Oct ‘06: Original SLOODLE concept by Jeremy KempSLOODLE chat-logger by Paul Andrews & Daniel Livingstone
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Three Views of SLOODLE
• Product• Community
• Research
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Product• Web-intercom• Registration booth• Quiz Chair• Virtual Drop Box• Choice • Toolbar• Presenter
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Community
• sloodle.org– Forums, resources, links
• Sloodlers– In-world group in Second Life
• SLOODLE Island in Second Life– Meeting, chat, learning zones,
classrooms for community use• Weekly meetings
– Community Meetings (Weds)– SLOODLE 101 (Tue)
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ALT-J SLOODLE Paper
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Approaches to integration
• The 3D classroom– Original conception
• UI integration– SLOODLE toolbar
• Individual tools– Set of utilities used as required
• Rich 3D learning landscapes– The goal?
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SLOODLE Architecture
MoodleDB
MoodlePhp
SLOODLEPhp
HTTP
Web Browser
Second Life
LSLObject
Moodle/SLOODLEWeb-server
Peter will be talking about the architecture later… we hope you can come along!
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Virtual Dropbox• Gradebook
Integration
Presenter• Multi-media
presentations inside SL
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Web-Intercom
Quiz ChairRegistration
boothChoice
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Blogs and Postcards
• Toolbar allows blogging to Moodle from SL– Creates hyperlink SLurl to location
in SL– Manually add images later
• Freemail plug-in for Moodle allows users to email blog posts – including images– Second Life lets users send email
‘postcards’– Some dependencies
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‘Skinnable’ tools in Second Life
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Setting up a SLOODLE class
• Add ‘SLOODLE controller’ activity to Moodle course
• Get the SLOODLE ‘Set’ in Second Life– Create an instance of the set
• Click on it to configure– Enter Moodle URL– Follow dialog link to log in to Moodle– Click again in SL to download config
data
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Setting up Various Tools• Click on Set to ‘rez’ the tool (menu
driven)• Click on tool to configure
– Again prompted to login to Moodle to authorize & configure
– We don’t trust Second Life objects without this!
• Click on tool again to download configuration
• Alternatively…– This can be ‘notecard’ driven– Use dialogs in Moodle to generate
configuration data to drop in
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Who’s using SLOODLE?
• To an extent we don’t really know…– Need to develop registration ‘nags’– Many hundreds of tutors have been
‘trying out’– Unknown number actually using– Many international community members
• Some tutors have reported back and/or completed surveys– Survey responses positive– Range of subject areas
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Today…
• SLOODLE 0.4– Roadmap to SLOODLE 1.0
• SLOODLE is in active use supporting classes around the world
• Growing community– Since January significant growth in
activity in forums– Increasing amounts of
contributions
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Subject Areas
• ESL• English• Education• Ethics• Fashion• HCI
• Second Life skills
• Programming• Women’s
studies
… class sizes from 6 to 120+
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SLOODLE Island
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Christopher FlowReactionGrid
BlueWall SladeOSGrid
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Michael Callaghan & Kerri McCuskerIntelligent Systems Research Centre
University of Ulster
3rd Party Contribs: Practical
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SLOODLE for Moodle 2.0
• Major re-write• Web APIs for Moodle 2.0 might
simplify a lot of our development work
• Limitations of Second Life http functions will likely still force a lot of custom engineering (or hacking)
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Observations• Making SLOODLE easier to install, to
set-up, to use – version 1.0 is coming• Moodle integration lends legitimacy to
virtual worlds in education– And yet many educators in SL are
unaware of LMS/VLE platforms
• 3rd Party Hosting available– Free and commercial
• International Users & Support– Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese,
German
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The Future• SLOODLE Roadmap
– 1.0 Due August 2009
• Long term?– Many institutions are only now really
coming to terms with VLEs– Virtual worlds are some way behind
• VirtualWorldWatch.net
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A Virtual World is a Place
If students came to your class when you were not there, what would they learn?
What would they do?