Activities+and+Lesson+ideas

=Activities and Lesson Ideas=

This is based on activities used with Kids Connect and Global Kids by Kate and Sean Farrell.

Basic skills using Second Life ‘tutorial’ Building simple 3D objects (hats and chairs) Scripting pet rocks and objects with sounds Changing appearance Creating buildings and structures Photo scavenger hunt Personal space for each student

Second Life Workshop Ideas
A set of lesson plans for [|Kids Connect] to provide an interesting set of activities which can be used to learns about using [|second life]. The activities should all be designed for use in a practical, direct way and reflect the use of [|Second Life] as a communication tool and art space.
 * Note:* For now this page is a list of ideas to be developed into more detailed lesson plans.

Basics of Movement
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 * walking and running
 * races
 * tag
 * British Bulldog group game - (get to the other side without abuse report pop-up!)

flying

 * races
 * slalom (timed) through hoops

Moving objects around in Second Life

 * pass the parcel (click to open multilayered object - take out object inside - last person = prize )

Animations and poses

 * musical statues (dance and pose)

Sitting

 * Musical chairs

Vehicles

 * sitting and driving cars
 * flying vehicles

Chatting and IM

 * Chinese whispers (IM to person next to you in circle)

adding friends

 * Would be useful to set up a mass friending of everyone to everyone on the project early in project
 * Different pass the parcel - pass through inventory - drag onto person or profile

Taking photos in SL

 * ([|slpics])
 * or private alternative picture hosting (?Drupal with plugins to interpret attachments?)
 * Scavenger hunt round Teen SL

Find tool, Transporting, Saving and using landmarks

 * Treasure hunt around sim - find landmarks, making and taking staged pictures and posting to shared space.
 * Machima - record short video clips from scavenger hunt)

Areas for the sim

 * football pitch
 * race track
 * textures areas
 * freebies area

Appearance

 * Changing clothes, using folders for outfits
 * Altering Clothes - length, colour etc.
 * Changing Avitar appearance - saving skin and shape - making copies
 * Attaching objects to body
 * holding objects
 * prim hair
 * flexi skirts and cloaks
 * piercings and body mod
 * Fancy Dress party - create costume (what theme?)
 * Carnival parade type builds and big attachments -- (textures?)
 * Design a pop star

Enterprise Activities in Second Life
(to be completed)

Create prim

 * change size, shape, copy, texture
 * upload and display photos
 * use handles, use numbers to change position

Special Prims

 * 1) Flexi Prims
 * flag
 * cloak
 * bouncy castle
 * 1) Light prims
 * light sabre
 * touch
 * jewellery
 * theatre light

Building Challenges
-- idea: dutch style house, resources?
 * chair
 * hat
 * glasses
 * house
 * Sculpting
 * Kids Connect logo and sculpture
 * shape matching game - patterns on floor, build and link prims to match cross section

Scripted Objects

 * 1) learn how to put a script in an object
 * 2) [|Floating text script]
 * 3) [|Give notecard script]
 * 4) [|Gun Script]
 * 5) [|Teleporter Script] by Cubey Terra
 * 6) [|Kids Connect Media Player] script
 * 7) [|Flame Script]

Soundscape and Audio Interactive Objects
Soundpic : prebuild a script to play a short sound clip on being clicked Add this to a [|script library] which students can access and use adapt to make it into a phantom, transparent prim covering a large volume with sensor script to play sound on collision Tools and directions to create and upload a sound clip in suitable format (remember time limits in SL - 10 sec?)