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.
No comments:
Post a Comment