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Date: August 19th 2009

SLOODLE 1.0

Thanks for trying our 1.0 Release Candidate! In this readme file you will find a lot of information pertaining to the SLOODLE Project! For your conveniece, we have created a table of contents below, and have used ASCII formating to make this README file more readable. We hope you find it useful!

Table of Contents:

  1. What is Sloodle:

  2. New features in this release

  3. Sloodle Tool Set Overview

  4. Contact Informaton a) General Discussion Forum b) Archived Community Chat c) Project Home Page

  5. Sloodle 101 Classes

  6. Sloodle Island Information a) Sloodle Market Place b) Sloodle 101 Classroom c) Sloodle Communit Meeting Area d) Sloodle Sandbox

  7. Sloodle Addons

  8. Useful Links

  9. Installation

  10. Addon Installation a) The Sloodle Awards System Addon b) The Freemail Blogger Addon

  11. The Sloodle Team

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  1. WHAT IS SLOODLE?

    SLOODLE is an Open Source project which integrates the multi-user virtual environment of Second Life® with the Moodle® learning-management system funded by the Eduserve Foundation in the UK (http://www.eduserv.org.uk/)

SLOODLE provides a range of tools for supporting learning and teaching to the immersive virtual world; tools which are integrated with a tried and tested leading web-based learning management system. Sloodle is a platform to connect a Moodle Learning management website with the Virtual world of Second Life.

Sloodle consists of two parts: A zip file which gets unzipped and installed on your MOODLE Learning Management Website, and a suite of tools which can be rezzed (brought out of your inventory) into Second Life.

SLOODLE is free for use under the GNU GPL license - http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ and is funded and supported by Eduserv – http://www.eduserv.ac.uk/ with network services provided by San Jose State University's School of Library and Information Science - http://slisweb.sjsu.edu.

Dr. Daniel Livingstone, University of the West of Scotland, UK is co-founder and Eduserv principle investigator. Jeremy Kemp with SJSU is co-founder.

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  1. NEW AND SPECIAL FEATURES IN THIS RELEASE

    Sloodle 1.0 has a great list of new features for educators in Second Life. Sloodle 1.0 New Features

** Presenter

** Sloodle Set

** Picture Glossary

** Quiz Chair Updates

** Web Intercom

** Error Messages

** Access Checker Door

** Sloodle Awards System

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  1. ALL THE SLOODLE TOOLS WITH WIKI LINKS

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  1. CONTACT INFORMATION

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  1. SLOODLE 101 CLASES

    Sloodle 101 is offered every Tuesday at 13:30 PST (Second Life Time) by Fire Centaur on Sloodle Island. You can teleport directly here: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sloodle/110/59/24 Fire Centaur also utilizes an Adobe Connect Pro Server, whose use has been temporarily lent to him by Dr. PaiChai University in Daejeon, South Korea. Thanks Pai Chai

http://www.sloodle.org/moodle/course/view.php?id=48

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  1. SLOODLE ISLAND INFORMATION

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  1. SLOODLE ADDONS:

    Sloodle Addons are additional tools you can install into Sloodle by uploading additional software into your Moodle website, as well as rezzing the tool in world. Sloodle addons can be found here: http://download.socialminds.jp/sloodle/latest/addons.zip

Sloodle 1.0 Awards System Addon *

Motivate your Students by awarding them points towards their final grade directly in Second Life

Sloodle 1.0 Freemail Blogger Addon *

Take snapshots in Second Life, and have them entered directly into your Moodle Blogs

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  1. USEFUL LINKS

    For your convenience, here are a few useful download links: ) Sloodle 1.0 Set Video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdXiKJeWXZg&feature=channel ) Sloodle Wiki: http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/sl/index.php/Sloodle ) Sloodle Home Page: http://sloodle.org ) Discussion Forum http://www.sloodle.org/moodle/mod/forum/view.php?f=15 ) Testing forum: http://www.sloodle.org/moodle/mod/forum/view.php?id=1226 ) Youtube Channel: http://youtube.com/user/sloodle ) Fire's Youtube Channel: http://youtube.com/user/fire2006 (for extra videos) ) Sloodle Twitter: http://twitter.com/sloodle_news

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  1. INSTALLATION

You can usually upgrade old versions simply by removing the existing SLOODLE folder(s) from your installation, and replacing them with the new ones.

There are four parts which you can install. The first is required in order to use SLOODLE, but the other two are optional, and simply provide some additional functionality.

Module (required)

  1. Navigate to your Moodle's "mod" folder
  2. If a "sloodle" folder exists there already, then delete it
  3. Add the "sloodle" folder from this download

Block (optional)

  1. Navigate to your Moodle's "blocks" folder
  2. If a "sloodle_menu" fodler exists there already, then delete it
  3. Add the "sloodle_menu" folder from this download

Sloodle Object Assignment plugin (optional)

(Enables use of the PrimDrop object)

  1. Navigate to your Moodle's "mod/assignment/type" folder
  2. If a "sloodleobject" folder exists there already, then delete it
  3. Add the "sloodleobject" folder from this download

If you are using Moodle 1.8, or one of the older Moodle 1.9 installations, then the SLOODLE Object assignment will be displayed in Moodle menus as "[[typesloodleobject]]". If this happens, you will need to alter your primary language pack. E.g. if your primary language is English, then the is "en_utf8".

ONLY do this if your observe "[[typesloodleobject]]" in your Moodle site.

  1. Navigate to your Moodle's "lang/" folder
  2. Open the "assignment.php" file
  3. Scroll to the bottom and add this line immediately before the last "?>": $string['typesloodleobject'] = 'Sloodle Object';

You can change the 'Sloodle Object' text to suit your needs. You can repeat the process for other languages if necessary.

THE SLOODLE TEAM

There are 5 core members of the Sloodle Team.

SLOODLE: http://www.sloodle.org/moodle/user/view.php?id=52&course=1 LINKEDIN: http://www.linkedin.com/in/dlivingstone TWITTER: http://twitter.com/dlivingstone WEBPAGE: http://cis.paisley.ac.uk/livi-ci0

WEBPAGE: http://www.sjsu.edu/people/jeremy.kemp/ LINKEDIN: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jeremy-kemp/2/9aa/162 TWITTER: http://twitter.com/jeremykemp YOUTUBE: http://www.youtube.com/user/jeremykemp

SLOODLE: http://www.sloodle.org/moodle/user/view.php?id=589&course=1 WEBPAGE: http://b3dmultitech.com/ SKYPE: eslteacherlink.com TWITTER: http://twitter.com/fire YOUTUBE: http://youtube.com/user/fire2006

SLOODLE: http://www.sloodle.org/moodle/user/view.php?id=1350&course=1 WEBPAGE: http://peter.avid-insight.co.uk/

SLOODLE: http://www.sloodle.org/moodle/user/view.php?id=78&course=1 WEBPAGE: http://www.socialminds.co.uk LINKEDIN: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jeremy-kemp/2/9aa/162 TWITTER: http://twitter.com/jeremykemp

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  1. SLOODLE ADDONS INSTALLATION

    There are several addons being released with Sloodle 1.0. Addons are sloodle tools which have not yet been integrated into the Sloodle Core release due to not enough user testing. However, the addons listed are fully functional and extend Sloodle's functionality! We encourage you to try out the Sloodle addons! NOTE: There may be extra installation needed to add these to your Sloodle Website.

Information about Sloodle Addons can be found here: http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/sl/index.php/Download_Sloodle