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The advantage of Second Life is being able to change the learning environment to suit the learners. The first years have got into building little homes, so I've set them the task of creating a village. A quick bit of region texture tweaking and terraforming, and look of the land now suits the task.
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I've merged team A and team B into a new team, team BA.
The task for the rest of this week is to build a village.
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10am - 5pm. "Build one of the following type of trees:" task. All pilot students, plus a couple of level 3 students, worked on this project as an activity as part of the Big Draw event, which also took place real life in Leeds Met Library.
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Top level 3 student builds a 'Symbol tree'. The black pixel version led me to reminisce about my first computer, a 1K ZX81.
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PM
OpenSim public grid
Configure Macs to run OpenGrid or other public Grid, or possibly local grid if we can get it together.
Log into OpenSim multi-user using pre-set usernames and passwords. (Student's real first names? Ruth Reallastname?)
Meet each other's avatars.
Chat. IM.
Collaborative building.
Working in virtual pairs using in-world chat, build a ?
Shrine?
House?
Machine?
Toy?
Fairground ride? (Slide etc)
Art Exhibition - using pictures off the site/web?
