I registered for ETEC-652D because I had been exposed to the Second Life (SL) Multi User Virtual Environment (MUVE) in a previous class and I wanted to explore the educational potential of the environment. The semester began with many technical problems. My laptop kept crashing even though it met the […]
Daily Archives: December 13, 2011
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Our team worked on an instructional unit “The Potential for Therapeutic Pre-operative, Intra-operative and Post-operative Surgical Experiences in Second Life”. Our goal was to create an immersive and culturally sensitive orientation for patients preparing to have a first time surgical experience. We created a site that is very appealing in many […]
Scripting in Second Life was an unexpected challenge. When I registered for ETEC-652D I didn’t expect the use of scripting. I know a little about scripting but in no way am I an expert. The sample builds we did in class were helpful but I still was a little confused. […]
Second Life shared media is so cool! I really like the shared media function. For our group project I was able to use shared media for our surveys and as a YouTube display player. Incorporating the functions of Google Forms and shared media enabled the creation of an interactive survey. […]
Heads Up Displays (HUD) in Second Life are cool! I am having a difficult time creating an interactive media HUD if there is such a thing. What I want to do is merge the shared media and the HUD functions. This is proving to be quite a challenge! I can […]
For a new builder some task can be intimidating. For my area of our group project I needed a fire. We decided it would be nice to have a camp fire setting in the post-op recovery section of our site. Then came the challenge. Build or buy? As a new […]
I really enjoy the ability to upload images in Second Life. For a small fee you can add an image to use for build development. For my groups project I created a Flat Screen Display for use as a URL media player. First I did a Google search for images […]