Summative survey - draft

Here is a link to a survey I have created. Participants will be asked to complete this once the task is finished to rate their experience.

http://www.kwiksurveys.com?s=ONIJGF_1399ddf4

Depending on who my testers are for this project, I would like to create a survey to test knowledge acquired in the task (grammar and lexis) as conducted by Pereira (2010) in his study of language teaching in SL. However, if native speakers are testing this tool, it seems irrelevant to test this.

Facebook page

I have set-up a group called "Secondlife Project" on facebook.
Here I can set the context and feed in some language work.

This page will also be used for students to post their task results and for feedback from me after the task in Second Life.

Working on the clues!

I have been experimenting with how to give clues for the murder mystery. SL is naturally multimodal in terms of information sharing (Kress 2010). One way to give the user information is the note-card, which provides written text for the learners to study and take notes from.

However, I wanted a variety of skills to be practised in this task so I have been looking at how to embed audio. At first this seemed really hard. You need to import audio and this costs L$10. You then need various scripts to make it work. But....I discovered you can embed Jing into SL so I can record the clues with a picture and then stream them as media content onto the object in SL.

It is also possible to capture an image and upload this as a Jing file - this avoids the L$10 needed each time you want to upload a picture to SL. However, it seems impossible to then create a notecard 'giver' script once you have applied the Jing link. Therefore, perhaps a small tab needs to be created next to the image object to give the notecard.

Principles of games-based learning

Taken from 'Games-Based Experiences in Learning' Dr.M. Bober, FutureLab, 2010

Screen shots of building progress

 Using notes from the SL forum, I managed to create a note-card and borrow script that allowed it to be given to an avatar when they touched the wooden log. Instructructions are below:

1. Create new note-card in inventory, save and name.

2. Open build function for object, drag note-card into contents.

3. Paste script for note-card (below) into script box, change name to saved note-card name, save.

default
{
    touch_start(integer total_number)
    {
        llGiveInventory(llDetectedKey(0), "My Notecard");
    }
} 

Taken from: 

http://forums-archive.secondlife.com/15/49/7450/1.html

Copying prims:
Click shift, pull arrow (*right/ up etc) when in build mode.

Building objects.

Table has been built from one leg, copied 3 times.

Table top is 'smoke' texture to resemble glass.