Today, Michele Rayn came to meet me in-world in order to film my educational tools for MUVEnation. The exploration and the filming of the tool about an hour. Michele managed to make a short but clear film illustrating the tool I am using in my sky platform: www.slurl. The tools is PowerPoint Presenter. To watch the film, click on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7I3oi7Z6zh4
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Never be astonished! Everything is possible even in SL
Never be astonished! Everything is possible even in SL
Author: Hamid Mernaoui (Nowhereman Nootan)
Summary:
I didn’t know much information about using virtual worlds and it is with MUVEnation that I discovered Second Life for the first time. I was an absolute beginner. The experience was confusing and sometimes brings some frustration, but only with much curiosity, motivation and perseverance I have managed to learn much. MUCH? Yes, it’s much for me because compared to what I used to know before; I’ve done a great deal. Real life frequently heaves up with obligations and responsibilities. That’s why I’d confess that I haven’t given all the time I wanted to the course, but I’ve always trying to catch up. There has been crucial moments in the experience; moments of triumph but also of dissatisfaction, depression and anxiety. But in the story I’d like to shed light on two of these.
The first has to do with a surreal problem that happened to me during the last days of the last activity when I lost my account for some time and I couldn’t login the Second Life. The second is about my first experience to give a workshop and how It was improved. So I shall be talking about the two issues in parallel.
SituationWhat was the setting in which this case study occurred? * While doing the last activities of the second module where we had to set educational settings, discover tools, use the holodeck... It happened to me that I couldn’t login the Second Life any more. Every time I try to do, I get a message telling me that my login failed and my account would not be available before a certain time. When that time comes and I try again, I get the same message with another time again. This continued for more than ten days.
* The first time I had to give a workshop in-world was with MUVEnation. I had to prepare well. The choice of the topic was also a matter. I did my best to make it successful trying to focus on two major issues. The workshop aimed at working with scripts and manipulating stools and sharing a way to use the virtual world to teach English. This was very simple, but of much importance for an absolute newbie like me. Luckily the audience I had were very helpful and supported me till the end though the building and scripting activities were very simple for them. The job was really tough.
Task: What was the problem to be solved, or the intended effect?
* I was a bit late and I still had to deal with the sky platform, educational tools, educational scene... Icouldn’t do anything for some time. How could I carry the activities on with my SL account being lost?
Author: Hamid Mernaoui (Nowhereman Nootan)
Summary:
I didn’t know much information about using virtual worlds and it is with MUVEnation that I discovered Second Life for the first time. I was an absolute beginner. The experience was confusing and sometimes brings some frustration, but only with much curiosity, motivation and perseverance I have managed to learn much. MUCH? Yes, it’s much for me because compared to what I used to know before; I’ve done a great deal. Real life frequently heaves up with obligations and responsibilities. That’s why I’d confess that I haven’t given all the time I wanted to the course, but I’ve always trying to catch up. There has been crucial moments in the experience; moments of triumph but also of dissatisfaction, depression and anxiety. But in the story I’d like to shed light on two of these.
The first has to do with a surreal problem that happened to me during the last days of the last activity when I lost my account for some time and I couldn’t login the Second Life. The second is about my first experience to give a workshop and how It was improved. So I shall be talking about the two issues in parallel.
SituationWhat was the setting in which this case study occurred? * While doing the last activities of the second module where we had to set educational settings, discover tools, use the holodeck... It happened to me that I couldn’t login the Second Life any more. Every time I try to do, I get a message telling me that my login failed and my account would not be available before a certain time. When that time comes and I try again, I get the same message with another time again. This continued for more than ten days.
* The first time I had to give a workshop in-world was with MUVEnation. I had to prepare well. The choice of the topic was also a matter. I did my best to make it successful trying to focus on two major issues. The workshop aimed at working with scripts and manipulating stools and sharing a way to use the virtual world to teach English. This was very simple, but of much importance for an absolute newbie like me. Luckily the audience I had were very helpful and supported me till the end though the building and scripting activities were very simple for them. The job was really tough.
Task: What was the problem to be solved, or the intended effect?
* I was a bit late and I still had to deal with the sky platform, educational tools, educational scene... Icouldn’t do anything for some time. How could I carry the activities on with my SL account being lost?
* I had observed through attending different workshops that the instructors had been working at ease. I, therefore, decided to work on the same workshop, but I had to make it much easier for me and more interesting for the audience. How could I make it so?
Actions: What was done to fulfil the task?
Actions: What was done to fulfil the task?
* For the Second life account that was stuck, I contacted Ms. Margarita Perez Garcia (Paz Lorenz) explaining the problem to her. I was sure that she would help me solve the problem. She asked me then to do two major things. The first is to contact Second Life Support Portal and the second is to create another account and build the educational scene using builder’s buddy script as the holodeck I have belongs to the stuck avatar. I had also to do the mini-activities using the alternative avatar. Margarita also helped me by giving me some Lindens. Thank you Margarita!
* For the second challenge, I was conscious that Second Life has got plenty of tools and facilities and I have to discover them. One way to do so is to attend as many workshop as I can; not only in MUVEnation island, but in other regions as well. Whenever I had some free time, I just login and search for workshops available at the time. I manage then to discover many tools. Most of the people I met were helpful, generous and patient enough. I succeeded to get some tools that facilitated the job for me. For example, instead of devoting most of the time writing while the workshop is taking place, I had to prepare my instructions and use Speak Easy HUD which delivers the instructions one by one by a simple click and thereby I had all the time for more concentration to clarify, give feedback... Another example is that I got some tools that helped me show tasks on boards. That is how I found using note card readers, PowerPoint presenters...so helpful...
Results: What happened? Was it a success? What contributed to the outcomes?
* For the second challenge, I was conscious that Second Life has got plenty of tools and facilities and I have to discover them. One way to do so is to attend as many workshop as I can; not only in MUVEnation island, but in other regions as well. Whenever I had some free time, I just login and search for workshops available at the time. I manage then to discover many tools. Most of the people I met were helpful, generous and patient enough. I succeeded to get some tools that facilitated the job for me. For example, instead of devoting most of the time writing while the workshop is taking place, I had to prepare my instructions and use Speak Easy HUD which delivers the instructions one by one by a simple click and thereby I had all the time for more concentration to clarify, give feedback... Another example is that I got some tools that helped me show tasks on boards. That is how I found using note card readers, PowerPoint presenters...so helpful...
Results: What happened? Was it a success? What contributed to the outcomes?
* Using an alternative avatar to deal with the tasks obliged me to revise much of what I have leaned in the course and look for the tools I lost and other new ones. Though this brought frustration, I was at the meanwhile prompt to do the activities. I had to challenge myself. I couldn’t let it down after all this period. I kept also tying to login to my initial account and I was able after some ten days or more. I didn’t know what happened exactly to my account; how it was suspended and how I got it back, but I am fascinated by the experience because it gave me much room for reflection, exploration and revision of acquired skills.
* I managed to make my workshop and my performance much better. I have gained some confidence.
Lessons learned: What did you learn from the experience?
* When there is a will there is a way.
*Cooperation, sharing, patience, perseverance and motivation to explore are key words to self-development* I realised that Second Life has got a great potential that would help do the job much easier mastered using some stools. The more you explore and practise them, the more you get more skilled and your performance gets much more adequate.
Keywords: Stools, performance, curiosity and perseverance.
* I managed to make my workshop and my performance much better. I have gained some confidence.
Lessons learned: What did you learn from the experience?
* When there is a will there is a way.
*Cooperation, sharing, patience, perseverance and motivation to explore are key words to self-development* I realised that Second Life has got a great potential that would help do the job much easier mastered using some stools. The more you explore and practise them, the more you get more skilled and your performance gets much more adequate.
Keywords: Stools, performance, curiosity and perseverance.
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