Subject Matter Content Creation for Second Life Delivery - Teaching through Multi-User Virtual Environments - page 418

Figure 3. This is one of a large selection of amusing places that one can take one's students to relax and
have fun after a class or building session

learn prior to teaching in Second Life. The first
four skill sets are basic survival skills in Second
Life. Below is a simple list of these skills.

These survival skills are augmented by a
second set of skills that allow for the creation of
content and include:

1. Changing appearance: necessary for social
presence aspects of learning
2. Communication: methods of disseminating
information from student to student and
student to faculty.
3. Navigation: includes how to walk, fly, use
the maps and minimaps
4. Inventory control: required for keeping track
of objects acquired, shared, and created in
Second Life

1. Building: the use of the free 3-D building
tools of Second Life
2. Scripting: the use of the built-in Linden
Scripting Language to make objects move,
make sounds, change appearance, etc.
3. Adding content: adding material to an object
created including scripts

The level of learning of these two types of skill
sets need not be exhaustive and is often controlled
by the degree to which they will be used in your
own course. For that reason this chapter focuses
more on another of Lester's (2006) observations