Second Life Graded Assignment

Due date Sunday November 22, 2009 before 11:59 p.m.

Maximum grade 50

This assignment will be done with the programming environment Alice. The assignment is due Sunday November 22, 2009 before 11:59 p.m. The instructions for the assignment are as follows:

Problem: You are to explore the Second Life virtual reality world. To do this, you will need to create a personal avatar.

TUTORIALS

A short introduction to Second Life: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaLKFeJLnqI
A brief introduction to Second Life: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6D9I36zsec
How to communicate publicly and privately: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thBdLhXkzEQ
How to voice chat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zz54h1lu_w
How to change your physical appearance and clothing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4v6kK0ZKwE
How to edit your profile: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLLeAirhwG8
How to walk and fly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK2bczvyHoM
How to create landmarks and teleport: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL5aqEERlrI
How to use your mini map: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmEeVrX-qMs
How to use the world map: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpOYwHT7Xag
How to add a friend: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuN5b4B4jCw
How to create and join groups: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqn7imck6Gs
How to control your camera: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gDD13njjCE
How to take a snapshot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prno9o9n2ic
The following Web site also has lots of good videos: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Video_Tutorials

Complete the "Second Life" assignment:

Using a Web browser, go to http://www.secondlife.com.
Download and install the Second Life software.
Create a Second Life account and an avatar.
Explore Second Life with your avatar.
After logging into Second Life, use Jing to capture a image of your avatar.
Upload the image of your avatar to your Picasa/Flickr account.

Rubric / Scoring:

Discussion of your Second Life experience: 25 pts
Created a Second Life avatar: 15 pts
Captured and uploaded image of avatar to Picasa/Flickr: 10 pts

For the Week 14 discussion question, post a message that includes the following:

The name of your Second Life avatar.
Discussion of your experience in Second Life.
The URL of your Picasa/Flickr photostream containing the image of your Second Life avatar (rather than type the URL in, copy and paste the URL from within your Picasa/Flickr account).