Friday, November 21, 2008

Sloodle

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Sloodle is an open source project that brings together Moodle (an open source course management system) together with Second Life (3D Virtual World) to provide interactive game-technology and various tools for supporting learning in the virtual worlds.

Moodle and Second Life as illustrated by the following image:








To learn more about Sloodle, YouTube has many videos explaining how they work together.

Here is video that will walk you through Sloodle. There are many, many videos posted.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bkKumVecK0&feature=related

There is also a Sloodle wiki that will include many resources for Sloodle.
http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/sl/index.php/Sloodle

If you are interested in learning more about Sloodle, there are introductory classes that run in Second Life every Wednesday at 5:00pm EST in the SLOODLE classroom.

--Lynn

1 comment:

Michael D. Nichols said...

This is an interesting concept. Taking a usually non-user friendly technology and adding some visual appeal. It seems Sloode has a lot of potential. Great Post!