Jeremy Kemp on Sloodle
13 March 2007
Tonight, ISTE hosted a presentation by Jeremy Kemp (AV: Jeremy Kabumpo) about Sloodle in Second Life. ( http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/people/faculty/kempj/kempj.php) Sloodle is a learning management system for virtual environments. See http://www.sloodle.com. It is an adaptation of Moodle for Second Life and other virtual environments.
Jeremy talked about some of the applications that have been developed in Sloodle. It is possible to see chat occurring in Second Life without being logged into SL by viewing it through Moodle. (Moodle is an open source course management system for online learners.) See http://moodle.com/. He described an application for blogging from within SL to the Internet. He also described an object within SL that can instantly create various classroom configurations based on the needs to specific classes. There are also goals to develop classroom gestures, such as hand raising that avatar students can use in SL. This is definitely something to watch!
The real story for me was different. The ISTE program was so popular that the sim filled before I arrived. (Lesson learned: Arrive early!) I was not allowed to enter, but I was determined to try and see the event. Fortunately, the ISTE Skypark, where the event took place, is located at the edge of a sim. I rezzed a small platform on an adjoining sim, raised it to about 550 meters, and was able to send my camera over to see the presentation. Still, I was out of chat range, but fortunately my friend Corinne Fleury was in the presentation. She periodically copied the chat history to notecards and dropped them into my inventory. Not the most ideal way to attend a presentation, but it worked in a pinch!
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