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NTID Technology Symposium Teaching Technology in the Virtual World of Second Life® by James R. Mallory Gary L. Long Joseph S. Stanislow Werner Zorn National Technical Institute for the Deaf Rochester Institute of Technology. Agenda. What is Second Life Challenges

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  1. NTID Technology SymposiumTeaching Technology in the Virtual World of Second Life®by James R. MalloryGary L. LongJoseph S. StanislowWerner ZornNational Technical Institute for the DeafRochester Institute of Technology

  2. Agenda • What is Second Life • Challenges • Similarities/Differences from an Actual Computer • Implementation • Phase I • Phase II • Findings • Hands-on Activity

  3. Second Life® • Largest user-created 3D virtual world community http://secondlife.com/ • RIT has an Island and an island and also groups http://online.rit.edu/secondlife/ • Experience from national technical conferences during the last few years

  4. Development Challenges • We are only one of many projects on OL’s list • Interfacing with developers in OL • Having them understand what we need • 3D, pictures often not sufficient • Functionality of computer • Limited functionality of Second Life • Drastically reduce our instructional goals

  5. How This is Similar to a Real Computer • CMOS Screen showing on Monitor • Monitor off when: • Power Supply unplugged • Power Switch off • Monitor cord unplugged • Video card not in all the way • Video card defective

  6. How This is Similar to a Real Computer • CMOS Screen showing on Monitor • Values on Monitor Indicate: • 1 RAM module not in all the way • 1 RAM module defective • Master/Slave jumpers not correct for • EIDE DVD device (Slave) • EIDE Hard drive (Master) • SATA data cable unplugged

  7. How This is Different from a Real Computer • CPU out, indicates on monitor • Primary EIDE hard drive containing OS • Both RAM modules out, indicates on monitor

  8. Current Future Plans • Use with portion of PCHW1 class • Gather data and analyze to assess the value (or not) of this as a learning tool

  9. Two Phases for Student Testing • Theory derived fromBloom’s taxonomy of educational objectives • Phase I • Test the students knowledge • Identify parts/components • Phase II • Test the students Learning • Trouble shooting problems

  10. Phase I

  11. Phase I

  12. Phase I • Scoring as follows: • 0 Could not identify part/component • 1 Identified part/component but not detailed • Example – Hard Drive • 2 Fully identified part/component • Example – SATA Hard Drive

  13. Phase II

  14. Phase II • The monitor is blank and shows nothing. Which of the below could cause this to happen? • Power supply is not plugged in. • One of the mother board spacers is missing. • Power supply switch is off. • EIDE data cable is disconnected from the EIDE hard drive • Video card is bad. • There is no Ethernet cable connected to the Ethernet port • Video card is not pushed down all the way into its slot. • There are no speakers connected to the audio port. • Monitor is not plugged in.

  15. Findings Phase I Results • Phase I results • Low student participation due to no grading • Inconsistent collection of data by faculty • Students who learned from Second Life performed equal to but not better than those who didn’t on labeling parts.

  16. Findings Phase II Results • Phase II results • Improves student participation due to performing it as part of the class • Better collection of data by author • Students did learn trouble shooting skills from SL • Statistical Analysis

  17. Let’s Go Inworld!

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