Quiz with Prizes: Will You Accept the Challenge?

There's a Quiz with Prizes at The E-Learning Garden (Chilbo).

The questions are all about one of the most popular activities in Second Life®: taking snapshots.

Screen capture (aka snapshot taking) in SL is a great way for people to express and share their creativity, However, many users do it completely unaware that there is such a thing as an official Linden Lab policy that regulates this activity.

As educators, it is important that we tell our students about SL ToS, including the rules regarding snapshot taking.

So, here's a challenge: brush up on your knowledge of 'Linden Lab Official Snapshot and Machinima Policy', take the quiz and win prizes!
In this case, all the prizes are animations - poses that you can later use for your snapshots.

Taxi to the Quiz @ The E-Learning Garden

Five Amazing Games That Add a Third Dimension to Learning

"Four years ago I went from being a school teacher, to a position in distributed learning. The environment was “cutting edge” but many courses were still in paper format, and the online ones were largely electronic text. The cost of materials and course development translated into huge classes, and marking loads.

Student feedback was both inadequate and not at all timely. Worst of all, my students were not engaged and had little meaningful contact with their teacher.

After a year of feeling like a total failure I told the principal that I was dissatisfied with my teaching practice and needed to find a better way to engage the students in their learning. With her blessing, I began my search."
- Gord Holden from Vancouver, B.C.


Here is a list of five games Gord Holden has used in his classes:

1. BUILD A CIVILIZATION: CAESAR III

2. MEET MEDIEVAL CITIZENS, EXPLORE HISTORIC CITIES: CASPIAN LEARNING

3. LIVE WITH INDIGENOUS CULTURES: QUEST ATLANTIS

4. SURVIVE IN THE WILD: WOLFQUEST

5. REDESIGN LEARNING: CYBERNETWORLDS

To find out more about using these games as learning tools, please click here.

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