... a technology update & student synthesis
Five W's
What is it?
Why is it?
Who is it?
Where is it?
When is it?
Digging In
Quiz Chair
Chatcast
Classroom
Login Zone
Toolbar
Sloodle Box
Evaluation
Middleware
Modification
Learning Paths
Sim Hosted
Possibilities
LMS in-world
Learning objects
Game elements
Avatar tracking
Cyber-assistance
Formerly known as Chat Mirror, Chatcast is a connector between Second Life chat and Moodle-based chat sessions. This allows individuals in a Moodle course chatroom to communicate with their classmates in-world, and vice versa. Jeremy Kabumpo added a BEEP feature that allows individuals to send a sound effect to alert eachother.
Considering the possibilities of such a tool, I look no further than our Edtech597 class. On Thursday nights, a subset of our class met in-world for instructor-led training. There were some individuals who couldn't participate in these "chat-heavy" sessions for technical reasons such as school firewall or video card limitations. In a Sloodle scenario, those users could use the Moodle course's chatroom and participate in those chat sessions without missing a text-based beat.
