For a while now, I have wanted to blog about Sloodle, but I haven’t had the foggiest idea where to start. It’s a great tool for use in the educational world. But I think I have been waiting until the launch of my EdTech blog before I post too much on it.
But this one thing I found was pretty cool. You can blog to a Moodle account from inside of the Second Life virtual world. Just sounds cool. Here is a video that shows how to do it:
CNN has a great article today about schools that use Second Life for educational purposes:
Growing number of educators explore ‘Second Life’ online
The most important quote is this one, from Rebecca Nesson, who teaches a class that is offered online through Harvard and uses Second Life:
“Students interact with each other and there’s a regular sense of classroom interaction. It feels like a college campus”
So there is a growing number of people that are using Second Life for virtual online education. Think of it this way. I was in Second Life once for a conference on a product called Sloodle. I’ll have to blog on Sloodle later. I was chatting with someone else in there. I could see his avatar, and could tell a lot about his personality by the way he was typing. Then he mentioned that he was actually in London at that time. So, there I was – having an online conversation, for free with someone in London. And there are companies out there that are working on audio integration tools for Second Life. I guess Holodecks are coming soon, huh?