poised at the edge of the unknown in second life
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Poised at the Edge of the Unknown:Surviving and Thriving in Second Life, is a TCC preconference session hosted by Cynthia Calongne, Corwin Carillon and Jeff Hiles. It uses a humorous approach to looking at some of the challenges that educators and students face in a virtual world. It was presented using an interactive trivia game approach to promote participation (and to make it lively for Lyr Lobo, who adores games).TRANSCRIPT
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Poised at the Edge of the Unknown:Surviving and Thriving in Second Life
Jeff HilesCenter for Teaching & Learning
Wright State University
TCC Worldwide Online Conference 2009
April 2, 2009
Licensed under aCreative Commons Share Alike
with Attribution License
Cynthia CalongneInstitute for Advanced StudiesColorado Technical University
Nick NoakesHong Kong University
of Science and Technology
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They have great educator freebies at the
NMC Orientation!
A newcomer searches for educator loot!
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Educator Freebie Center
Head southeast & inside a lovely building for free educator items
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NMC Educator Freebie Center
Jack and Jill in a box!Avatar gear & animations
Cool educator tools!
Cool outfits & academic regalia
Love thesefreebies!
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Wheredid I putmy hair?
Farley has a bad hair day
Unpacking your loot:Items are often packed in a box. Drag it to the ground, “open” it
and use “copy to inventory.”
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Farley dresses his avatar and visits the Texture Tutorials
Left click on an objectto use it and right click on an
object to sit or touch it.
…must…try...everything!
Some objects do not do
anything when touched.
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Best seat in the house!
I was here first!
*pinch* Everyone is so friendly!
Some sit on the pillow; the others sit on the ledge
Right clickon the
seatbefore sitting
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Libraries are great ways to
meeteducators
Right clickon an avatar
to make friends
Use the Morebutton to givea calling card
Look for cool educatortools inside
Nice to meet youCorwin
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Let’s see, I want to keep
in touch
Give a card...Doh! Eject?
Oh No!
Eject me, will you?
Give a calling card…carefully
Lyr plots her revenge
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Now whatwas her name?
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Is a griefer shooting
you?
Sit down, or build a box and sit on it
If the box is not physical, you cannot be moved
Report griefersusing the
Help menu
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What a great view…whoa!
To land, use the PageDown
Key!
The SciLands are fun!
...hmm, whatdoes this do?
A friend shouts from below...
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Where did myhair go?
Lyr looks for her missing hair
Lyr drug herhand over her
avatar
& accidentallydetached or
edited her hair
Right click the hair, select
More and Wear
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Avatars come in all shapes, colors, species and sizes
Corwin and Lyr (l) Heidi and Stella (r)
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Rename your shape so you can find it easily
Lyr is wearinga child’s shape
I’m shrinking!
This can happenafter wearing
a smaller avatar
Create a folder& put the items
in it that youlike to wear.
Right click yourfolder & useAdd to Outfit
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Avatar Grooming Tips
• Create a new folder for your normal look– Copy (or drag no copy items) into this folder
– Lost worn items? • Right click the folder name & select Add to Outfit
• Finding lost hair in your inventory– If from a new avatar’s look
• Look in your Library folder to find, copy it, paste it into a My Inventory folder
• Right click the name in the inventory and select wear -or- • Search the inventory for the hair’s name
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The Library& Clothing folders
hold startingoutfits
Highlight, copyand paste the itemsinto a new folderin My Inventory
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Wright State MBA students get ready for their first class in SL
I’m ready foraction!
How do Ilook?
Get ready tocollaborate!
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Chattering Objects
• Avatars wear personal items– Clothes, skin, shape & hair
– Animation overrides (AOs)
– Coffee cups, jet packs, etc.
• Avatars wear devices – When touched, these items
may write to the chat log
– You don’t want your items getting a life without you
• Users touch everything– Invisible items can chatter
– They can be intrusive
– & may disrupt the meeting
• Tips– Remove all personal
attachments
– After all, scripted devices also lag a crowded meeting
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It’s great to meet with educators!
Lyr clicks on an invisible object that someone off screen is wearing.
I wonder what this does?
Please click the chat box if you want us to blog your comments.
Lyr clicks on a newcomer
Hello!
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an object worn bysomeone offstage starts chatteringin the local chat
Tip: Remove all chattering objects before meetings
A chat log devicerecords it
Wow! This blog post
is going to be riveting!
blushes!
Moans… ...whimpers
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Where’s mymagic 8-ball?
Avatars share ideas in a meeting of minds
Thinkscreatively
Lives outside the box
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How distinctiveand
delightful!
You look great up there!Lost items? No problem!
Hello! I’d recognize you
anywhere!
Where did Iput my…hmm?
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Poised at the Edge of the Unknown:Surviving and Thriving in Second Life
Cynthia CalongneLyr Lobo in SL
http://edumuve.com http://ctusoftware.blogspot.comhttp://www.slideshare.net/lyrlobo
Nick NoakesCorwin Carillon in SL
Jeff HilesFarley Scarborough in SL