Show Us Gadgets

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The February 4, 2007 NMC Campus Teachers Buzz theme is Show Us Your Gadgets where we are asking volunteers to set up and demo any SL "gadget" that have created, and/or can make available for sharing with other educators. All items must be free for other educators to use.

We will ask you to set up somewhere in the central rectangle area, providing signage, the gadget itself, and some device to give away the gadget to others (or if you prefer more control, you will have to drop in interested avatars).

The plan is to start with quick intros so participants know what is available, but then people move on their own to try out the gadgets.

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Please edit this wiki page to include info about your gadget, including its name, what it does, your avatar name, a brief description, and a SLURL/URL if applicable for more info. You can place your items out anytime before the Feb 4 event (see display area below)

The Gadgets

  • StoryMachine - reads a script of commands from a notecard and displays a sequence of prims dynamically connected by particle streams, thereby telling a story. More info at http://tidalblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/dusting-off-storymachine.html (functional but not without, erm, issues). Offered by Graham Mills (unable to attend due to technical difficulties; product/demo available at http://slurl.com/secondlife/EduNation/16/204/0)
  • Lucky Chair HUD - Do you want a fun way to teach students about the grid? Do you like free stuff? The Lucky Chair HUD is free, fun, and useful! Created by the Lucky Chair people, the Lucky Chair HUD indicates freebie chairs that begin with the first letter of an avatar's name. Desideria Stockton will distribute and model the HUD.
  • Lyr Lobo Goodies - Lyr emailed and said she would bring her big bag of goodies
  • Butch Dae - 3D Mindmapping in SL - To make his Mindjet MindManager Pro 7 mindmaps more accessible, Butch asked builder Llanna Lane to help him bring his 2D Mindjet map into SL. She developed three representations of Butch’s mind map including an interesting 3D tubular display. The display lets avatars get the “big picture” and read node names in the static map using a 3D tube browsing tool. Avatars can actually fly around the information in the tubes.
  • Simple Freeview - a simpler version of the Freeview screen made for showing only images (presentation mode or auto advance) -- the video menu items have been hidden t make the interface easier to use for basic slideshows. Offered by CDB Barkley- a giver box is set up
  • Picture Commenter - SL script and web site script/database structure (PHP, MySQL) for allowing avs to enter comments about an image. Comments are stored in web database and can be viewed in web as well. Last 3 comments are displayed as hover text. See web view. Offered by CDB Barkley
  • Virtual Reality Room - Use and/or create your own photo-realistic VRR, can be used on any NMC or Info Island sim, created by Stephane Zugzwang. See http://sl.nmc.org/2008/01/15/vrr-demo/
  • Random Avatar Picker - Device used by NMC for prize drawings- randomly displays avatar names from full list on notecard, draws one at random when owner activates selection. Created by Sendao Goodman for NMC
  • English/Lakhota Dictionary - a modified SL Glossary. Instead of providing a definition for a word, the dictionary provides the Lakhota word for the English input. It is chat-driven and notecard-based. For example, in Chat, type 'find cat' and the glossary will answer 'cat - igmu (hear it at [url is provided])'. The list of translated words can be found in the Glossary Help notecard (In chat, type 'glossary help' for the notecard to drop). To listen to the mp3 audio, click on 'History' of your chat. The link will be enabled then. Click on it and SL will open your browser directly to the audio file. The prim has full permission (scripts, notecards, background, etc) and is free to copy ('Take a Copy'). Modified by Willow Shenlin
  • Web Browser: Culture URLs - a modified library monitor. Only a reminder how easy this notecard-based web browser can be modified for any disciplines. Change the URLs in the notecard, save; change the background picture; reset the script if needed. The web browser will now drop the menu with YOUR URLs. Full permission and free to copy ('Take a Copy'). Modified by Willow Shenlin
  • Ann Enigma's Goodies - Hilary Mason, aka Ann, is bringing some scripted goodies from her deep inventory
  • Eloise Pasteur Educational Designs - Some goodies from Eloise Pasteur, some may be familiar, some are definitely new!

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