NMC2008 Hit The Ground Running
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[edit] NMC Summer Conference == == Preworkshop for Educators
(level - beginner) 8:30 am - 11:30 am
[edit] Agenda
8:30 am - 9:00am
30 minutes
Get settled, logging in, accounts
Introduction - Explain schedule, objectives
9:00 am - 10:00 am
60 minutes
Topic 1 ... Getting Used to the Environment - The Basics
Exercises
15 minute break
10:15 am - 11:30
Topic 2 ... Educational Applications/Sites
Topic 3 ... Educational Tools
[edit] Handouts:
Essentials for Second Life (new NMC document)
JoKays appearance tutorial
List of Shopping Blog sites ... Style In-world Magazines (needs to be made up)
List of Educator Tools ... what they are, use, where to get them, how much to they cost
Script Modification Directions (Beth)
[edit] Items Needed:
Gift bag:
landmarks (educational spots)
clothes
screens
notecards
various items - freebies
Script Packet
Notecard on best places to shop for professional clothes
Notecard on Educator Sites
Notecard on where to obtain educational tools covered?
[edit] Topic 1 ... Getting Used to the Environment
Lesson 1: Looking Around (camera)
(Location: Perhaps we can take them to ISM?)
alt,zoom, mouse wheel
Activity: Looking Around ... looking directly at an object, looking at an object from the side
Activity: Looking at the Front of Your Avatar
Lesson 2: Moving Around
walk
fly
flyaway menu, keyboard shortcuts
teleport (cover in more detail with map)
making a landmark (mention about where to find them here)
Activity: Moving Around
Lesson 3: Basic Controls
top menu bar (note upload image)
lower menu bar (emphasis on snapshot, inventory, search)
map
inventory, money, buying items
pie menus ... sit, stand, touch, more information about an object
Activity:
Face front of avatar, take snapshot ... send postcard, save to disk
Sit, stand, click on the ground, click on an object
Click on gift bag, touch, find in inventory, drag items to the ground (changing clothes comes later)
Click on avatar ... profile
Telport to another location using the map, (where?) create landmark, then teleport back to original using the chat link
Lesson 4: Communicating with Others
Local Chat
IM chat
Voice
Group chat
Contacts
Activity:
Use Local Chat
Make Friends, send IM to new Friend
Pull up contact list
Private Chat with a small group of students
[edit] Lesson 5: Getting Dressed
More details about inventory ... look at clothes in their inventory
copy, transfer, modify
Edit Appearance
Skins
Changing Clothes
Best Places to Shop, Fashion Blogs, Fashion Magazines (emphasis on "professional" clothes)
Blogs:
Linden LifeStyles .... [1] http://lindenlifestyles.com/?p=1069
Second Life Fashion Addict .... [2] http://slfashionaddict.blogspot.com/2008/05/golden-moments.html
Second Style Fashionistista ... [3] http://blog.secondstyle.com
Iris Ophelia's World Fashion Tour ... [4] http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2007/05/i_love_to_trave.html
Men's Fashion
Second Life Male Style and Fashion Blog ... [5]http://slstyle.workpress.com
Men's Second Style ... .[6] http://www.second-man.com
Slmen - Style Guide for Men in a Metaverse .... [7] http://www.slmen.com
Desi's Top Shop Spots
- DE Designs - Clothes
- Canimal Designs - Clothes
- Bare Rose Tokyo - Clothes
- ETD - Hair
Del.icio.us Tags:
del.icio.us tags ... [8] http://del.icio.us/secondlife/fashion
Fashion Magazines:
Second Style Magazine ... [9] http://www.secondstyle.com
Websites:
Fashion Community ... [10]
Clothing Tutorials
Clothing Tutorials ... [11]http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Clothing_Tutorials
Introduction to Second Life Fashion Series by Elaine Polvinen at Buffalo State [12]http://fashioncad.info/htm/sl/class_four.htm
Beth and Heidi's Picks:
Best Places for Free Stuff:
Fabfree Blog ... [13] http://fabfree.wordpress.com
List of Establishments selling free stuff ...[14]
http://secondlifepros.com/free-stuff-in-second-life
Article on Free Stuff at Cybrary City Blog ... [15] http://cybrarycity.blogspot.com/2007/01/free-stuff-in-second-life.html
Miscellaneous
Search on: Yard Sales, Freebies
The Resource building on the NMC Second Life Orientation Island
Search the regular fashion blogs and online Second Life stores for "free"
Online Second Life stores:
SL Exchange ... [16] http://www.slexchange.com
OnRez ... [17] http://shop.onrez.com
Activity:
Find clothes in inventory, change clothes Modify appearance
Lesson 6: Gestures (optional ... we might drop this if time is short)
(this section needs to be developed out) ...
[edit] Topic 2: Educational Applications/Sites
Best way to do this quickly? - Needs handout
Activity: How to use Search - for Education
What makes SL Different?
Why SL over other media forms? Collaborative brainstorming.
Activity: Assessment in the Design - Collaborative groups go to one of the following (NOAA, ISM, GENOME, 7 Gables, Inferno) and assess it based off criteria they set for strong educational Design.
[edit] Topic 3: Educational Tools Available (needs a handout)
Groups, Listserves, Blogs
SLEDU Blog
NMC Observer
Salamander Wiki
SLed List
Mentor Programs: NMC, ISTE, Community Colleges in SL, Elven
General Scripts (Participants will learn how to use each of these tools)
PPT Script
Notecard with HT
URL Launcher with HT
Dropbox
Online Indicator
Video Screen (PPT screen and Video screen), Special Considerations for Video
Collaborative Tools
Brainstorming Tool
Archive Chat Tools (http://sleeds.org/chatlog)
Voice Thread (http://voicethread.com)
Quizes/ Surveys (sold or custom built by Eloise Pasteur Educational Designs)
(are we going to be able to give this away in the gift bag?)
Sample 1: Grammar Quizzer
Sample 2: Chemistry Quizzer
Sample 3: True/False Quizzer
Sample 4: Survey Tool
Thinc books (and other advanced tools)
Hands-On Activities?
[edit] Another time ....
Topic 4: Special Skills for Educators
Objective ... Intro to Basic Building with Application of Second Life Skills covered above
Should we have them make a poster that gives a notecard away or should we have them customize some educational tools? Not sure ...
I like teaching these concepts in conjunction with the actual tool being used. So, for example, I might kick off the session by asking them to create a simply three slide summary of what they have learned so far in the workshop. I would then teach them how to save the slides as jpegs. We would use these later during the sessions when we discuss how to create PPTs.
It would be great to do an activity at the end, like a summary of the day - where they create an inword display of everything they have learned.
Special note:
(if we had more time an overarching activity would be great to use to tie everything together. Create an educational display perhaps ... working in teams, divide out tasks for the group such as one person making a notecard and embedding it in an object, another creating a poster, another linking an object to outside web, another setting up an image screen? ... have base objects in their gift bag with some textures, etc. ... )
Objects:
Blank Poster
Blank gift bag or something to that gives something away?
Notecard giver script (in gift bag)
Lesson One: Working with Textures
Importance of Textures
File formats
Size
Upload textures
Applying a texture to an object
Permissions
Activity:
Rez an object to the ground (poster)
Find texture in gift bag, apply to blank poster? (provide different ones in gift bag, authors, scientific equipment, eco-region, animal, etc?)
Set permissions
Rename
Take a copy
Lesson Two: Moving objects
Position ... arrows, build menu
Rotate
World, Local
Activity: Moving Poster, rotating Poster?
Lesson Three: Making a Notecard
Inserting Text
Inserting Landmarks (provide matching landmarks in gift bag to interesting educational places in sl that match texture subjects ... science, health science, English, authors)
Activity:
Make Notecard
Insert into Poster
