It's almost 11:00 p.m. on Friday night - my apologies for not sending this wrapup out last night so you could have seen it before the weekend.
This week we visited a Thanksgiving-themed build created by doctoral Communications Media and Instructional Technology Students and their professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Our group was able to complete about half of the sim during the session. They rated the build pretty high overall, but not without criticisms of things they thought might have been done better. The group mentioned things such as creating a clearer path of what to do next, making it easier for a large group to go through the sim at once by adding multiple quiz boards so you don't have to wait and making the time to go through the sim an hour or less so it can be done in one classtime. These all sounded like pretty good suggestions for anyone that might want to try creating a similar sim.
By the way, the coolest thing about this build is that the professor and students that created it are offering a game-creation kit to the residents of Second Life for FREE. This kit allows you to focus on the content of your sim and not worry about needing a programmer to make your ideas come to life. If you want to get a game kit of your own to try out it's available on the same island.
You can explore the thanksgiving-themed build for yourself here:
SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Comm%20Media/230/223/21
You can get a copy of the game kit on the same island here:
SLURL:http://slurl.com/secondlife/Comm%20Media/25/30/22
We don't have any other "Second Life and Lunch" sessions this month. Our next session will be Wednesday, December 2, 2009 at 1-1:50pm Central Time (11-11:50 Second Life Time). I hope to see you in December and have a Happy Thanksgiving!
For more information about the Kirkwood Second Life Group visit http://www.kirkwood.edu/secondlife
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