SLOODLE Brochure

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eLearning for Virtual Worlds


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What is SLOODLE?SLOODLE (Simulation Linked Object Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment)

is a suite of tools which enhances eLearning support for teaching and learningin Second Life. SLOODLE is provided as a free plug-in for the popular Open

Source web-based virtual learning environment Moodle

(http://www.moodle.org), and which integrates Moodle and Second Life.

Or alternatively... SLOODLE is a free plug-in for the popular 3D virtual world,Second Life (http://www.secondlife.com), which enhances the existing

support for learning and teaching through integration with the Open SourceMoodle learning environment.

What does SLOODLE do?Like other learning technologies, it is ultimately up to tutors and students to

decide how tools should be used in class but hopefully a list of some of thekey features will give you some idea of the possibilities.

Web-intercom. A chat-room that brings Moodle chatroom and Second

Life chats together. Students can participate in chats in Second Lifeusing the accessible Moodle chatroom. Discussions can be archived

securely in a Moodle database.

Registration booth. Identity management for Second Life and Moodle.

Link students avatars to their Moodle user accounts.

Quiz tool and 3D Drop Box. Assess in Second Life grade in Moodle. Set

quizzes or 3D modelling tasks in an engaging 3D environment. Reviewgrades quickly and easily in the standard Moodle gradebook.

Choice tool. Allow students to vote (and see results) in Second Life aswell as in Moodle.

Multi-function SLOODLE Toolbar. Enhances the Second Life user

interface. Use a range of classroom gestures, quickly get a list of the

Moodle user names of the avatars around or write notes directly into toyour Moodle blog from Second Life.

Presenter. Quickly author Second Life presentations mixing slides, web-

pages and video on Moodle. Present in Second Life without having go

through lengthy processes to convert or upload images, while enabling

web-based access to the same materials via Moodle.

A recent user-contribution extends this to enable one-click publishing ofPDF documents to Second Life.

... and more. More tools are being prototyped on a regular basis, with rapid

and regular feedback from the user community.


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Installing and Setting up SLOODLEThe SLOODLE plug-in is available at http://www.sloodle.org/, and should bedownloaded and installed by your system administrator. The plug-in comprises a

number of elements including a Moodle block and a new assignment type forMoodle. Installation on a typical Moodle site should only take a few minutes to

complete.

To use SLOODLE in Second Life, a course tutor needs to add a SLOODLE Controlleractivity to their Moodle course and use the Second Life in-world SLOODLE Set. TheSLOODLE Set is freely available inside Second Life, from SLOODLE island. A numberof online guides and video tutorials are available and can be found via the project

home page.

Using SLOODLESLOODLE is being used by a growing number of educators around the world,

teaching a wide variety of subjects. A published case-study details how ChrisSurridge (Christopher Flow in Second Life), at KAIST in South Korea, used Moodle,

Second Life and SLOODLE to support an international cultural exchange programmewith students in Korea and Dubai as part of an ESL (English as a Second Language)

course. Chris has since used the model with further classes and more recently hasbeen using the tools to support the development of virtual quests in Second Life.

At Ohio State University, Dr. Sharon Collingwood (Ellie Brewster in Second Life) has

been using SLOODLE to support her online Womens Studies classes held in SecondLife. As Dr. Collingwood explains: SLOODLE fits seamlessly with my own in-house

Learning Management System. I was worried that my students would find all thistechnology confusing, but it's really simplifying things. There's the in-house LMS,

which I am required to use, for real names, readings, assessment, then there'sSLOODLE, which is for avatar names, group work, blogs BRAVO guys, this isturning out to be easier than I thought!

SLOODLE on OpenSimCommunity members recently began the process of porting SLOODLE to OpenSim an open source virtual world platform that is compatible with the existing Second Lifeclient viewer. The majority of SLOODLE tools have been ported successfully, and the

first classes taught with SLOODLE took place in March 2009. SLOODLE is currentlyavailable on the OpenSim OSGrid and ReactionGrid worlds.


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SLOODLE Online http://www.sloodle.org

Visit the SLOODLE project homepage. Here youll find active forums for users and

developers. Youll also find links to our Wiki (with masses of documentation foreducators, students and Moodle administrators) and a number of community

produced tutorial videos which can walk you through the process of downloading,installing and getting started with the SLOODLE tools.

SLOODLE Inworld

You can also get support for SLOODLE inworld with regular weekly developer

meetings and weekly SLOODLE 101 classes open to anyone wanting to learn more.Times and locations may vary, please check the web-site for current details.

About Moodle

Moodle is used daily by hundreds of thousands of students worldwide, and is thevirtual learning environment of choice for many hundreds of schools, colleges,universities and businesses worldwide. Learn more at http://www.moodle.org/

SLOODLE is funded and supported by Eduserv

SLOODLE is supported by the San Jos State University School ofLibrary and Information Science

SLOODLE is supported by the University of the West of Scotland

SLOODLE is an Open-Source project, released under GNU Public

License.

Second Life and SL are trademarks of Linden Research, Inc.

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