Ultimate Scoreboard

Ultimate Scoreboards

B3D Produces Interactive Scoreboards which can be used in Second Life to motivate students with Points.  Contact B3D today for consultation on how to motivate your students with custom gaming elements!

Imagine, teaching, studying and learning in a virtual world.  Sounds far out heh? Well not really! Right now in Second Life, instructors are teaching Students how to learn languages, how to program, and even how to Dj!  But how do they motivate students in a virtual world? One way, is to use  the Sloodle Awards System. It's a  (FREE) open-source tool which is a part of the Sloodle Project - connecting Second Life to the Moodle Learning Management System.  Sloodle Awards consists of a 3D Scoreboard which users "rez" in the Virtual World of Second Life.   Once "rezzed" and placed in-world, a facilitator can then connect it with their Moodle Learning Management Website.  The scoreboard then can be clicked on, or sent messages to, via an API, to award points to users who complete course related tasks.  All get saved in Moodle's Mysql Database, and reported in an awards activity on the teacher's Moodle Website. Separate virtual world games such as a scavenger hunt, can pluggged into the scoreboard to also keep score!

TECHNOLOGY

The Sloodle Awards System is built on top of the SLOODLE platform, and can be plugged in to any MOODLE LMS Website.  LSL, PHP and MYSQL, Photoshop, Audacity, Freesound.org, and Second Life were used to create the SLOODLE Awards System

TESTIMONIALS

The Awards System has proven to be a great motivational tool for educators in Second Life.  Mike McKay, of Mukogawa Women's University Kobe, Japan has this to say about the Sloodle Awards System:

• Mike Mckay, University Instructor, Muguwa University, Japan

"YOU DID IT FIRE!!! You made a way for teachers to easily assess students without having to login to Moodle. Allow me to elaborate on this paradigm changing discovery. Moodle, nor any other learning management system, has taken the world by storm simply because it's not easy for teachers to use. It's boring. Maybe it's functional if you've had the right training, but it simply isn't user friendly. First, it's cool and it's easy. If I can add points or subtract points from students then I can do my work in real time. The grades would be recorded in a database that is accessible to students at anytime; immediate feedback and archiveable. YES!"

So then came the Awards System, previously called iBank, came. BINGO! Now a student can register to the Moodle site easily with the SLOODLE set, and then click on an awards cup to start an activity that is connected to an assignment and in turn the gradebook. WOW! And I can simply click on a name and add or subtract points, change the sort order, and make many more activities other than a quiz chair. 

This project, or Fire's work, CANNOT stop! You're on to something. Let me show you. Look at this photo of my group members using the quiz chair and the points board.

• Chris Surridge, KAIST University, Daejon, South Korea

Fire Centaur's SLOODLE add-ons and independent developments were critical parts of our highly successful 3D learning adventure, Devil Island Mystery. The SLOODLE Awards System along with the exploding cauldron provided key interactions in our learning system. Fire responds to questions and technical issues immediately and always meets his deadlines. For the serious educational technologist, the SLOODLE Awards System is the single most important tool in the SLOODLE toolbox. As an educator himself, Fire knows the needs of fellow educators, and can tailor scripted interactions to do exactly what they need to do. Devil Island Mystery would have been impossible without Fire Centaur and the Sloodle Award System.  Fire rocks!

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