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There was a discussion on SLED yesterday on the advisability of using it for teaching with some people “for”, others “against”. I used it last week and it was OK. The only point that caught me out previously is that new users have to agree to the Terms of Service and the acceptance checkbox remains dimmed until you’ve clicked some of the hyperlinks in the ToS field (presumably thereby providing evidence that you’ve read them). The sessions I ran were very superficial – all that was required was the ability to read a notecard and teleport. Most students coped OK with that although the Teleport button is located at the foot of the sidebar and, as such, takes a lot of mousing to find and the lack of contrast in the interface doesn’t help much either. If you just focus on the navigation area, it is much more web-like. Being able to type in locations or paste slurls is really nice. Finding the notecard in the Inventory was reasonably straightforward. The major issue I’ve encountered on my own hardware has been lag which at times has been a showstopper. On the student systems this seemed to be less of an issue. Whether this reflects their hardware or settings, I can’t say. Maybe we were just lucky. The main win, of course, is the shared media on a prim (i.e. no parcel limitations, although only the 8 nearest the camera are visible). While not perfect, it’s a big advance. I’m still getting to grips with communications/notifications and clothes. As many have reported, wardrobe malfunctions are not uncommon and I kept students well away from that aspect. The other concern is that deinstalling the new viewer also removes any logged chat. Best wishes Peter From: For anyone working in education with an interest in virtual worlds [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Rose Heaney Sent: 10 March 2010 08:51 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [VIRTUALWORLDS] Monthly Meet in SL Thanks Peter Is the general thinking that it's safe to download new viewer? Heard some reports of disasters. B/w Rose ________________________________ From: "Miller, Peter" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:31:51 +0000 To: <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: [VIRTUALWORLDS] Monthly Meet in SL Thanks very much to Gemma for hosting. Apart from the usual badinage/networking opportunities, we also had a play with the new SL Viewer 2.0, chatted about alternative viewers and had a play with CamSync (synchs student view/camera to teacher’s). Best wishes Peter From: For anyone working in education with an interest in virtual worlds [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Gemma McLean Sent: 09 March 2010 12:23 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [VIRTUALWORLDS] Monthly Meet in SL Hi everyone Just a reminder about the monthly meet up in Second life tonight. 8pm UK time (Noon SLT) at: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Xentilx/83/174/38/?title=Gemixin%20Plaza Hope to see you there :) Gemma -- Gemma McLean MD and Lead Developer of Gemixin Ltd www.gemixin.co.uk<http://www.gemixin.co.uk> 07590 573385 Second Life: Gemixin Miles Gemixin Ltd - | Virtual Worlds | Second Life | Games | Serious Games | Educational Games | Digital Videos | Web | Mobile | - Coventry West Midlands Access the list, archives and filestore via the web on http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/VIRTUALWORLDS Access the list, archives and filestore via the web on http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/VIRTUALWORLDS Access the list, archives and filestore via the web on http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/VIRTUALWORLDS