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Into theThird Dimension
withSLOODLE
Daniel Livingstone
Daniel Livingstone
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
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?
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
SLOODLE Concept Diagram
In the beginning…
Oct ‘06: Original SLOODLE concept by Jeremy KempSLOODLE chat-logger by Paul Andrews & Daniel Livingstone
Three Views of SLOODLE
• Product• Community
• Research
Product• Web-intercom• Registration booth• Quiz Chair• Virtual Drop Box• Choice • Toolbar• Presenter
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)
ALT-J SLOODLE Paper
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?
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!
Virtual Dropbox• Gradebook
Integration
Presenter• Multi-media
presentations inside SL
Web-Intercom
Quiz ChairRegistration
boothChoice
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
‘Skinnable’ tools in Second Life
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
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
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
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
Subject Areas
• ESL• English• Education• Ethics• Fashion• HCI
• Second Life skills
• Programming• Women’s
studies
… class sizes from 6 to 120+
SLOODLE Island
Christopher FlowReactionGrid
BlueWall SladeOSGrid
Michael Callaghan & Kerri McCuskerIntelligent Systems Research Centre
University of Ulster
3rd Party Contribs: Practical
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)
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
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
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?
Thank you!
http://www.sloodle.org/[email protected]