Collection of tools for education

Communication and interaction

Building dialogues

• Magic 8 Ball - Creator : Armandi Goodliff (in-world)
• Vocabulary U - Matic - Gavin Dudeney - Edunation

Organisation tools

• Visitor Counter/Distributor (Dedric Mauriac) at the ICT library

Giving information/announcements

• Whiteboard for communication
• Professional BlackBoard MessageBoard
• Chalk/Note Board
• Iternational Teaching, meeting, conference board
• Bulletin Board (Pixel Trix) at the ICT library
• GLP Bulletin Board (corkboard look) FREE
• Message board by Biran Gould at Terra Incognita, 350L$

Controlling chat range/chat enhancer/chat extender/chat relays

• Chat Range Alarm Scanner
• Free avatar scanner HUD FREE
• *AD* Relay Talk
• *AD* Relay Talk Ball
• Miss Gadgets Chatter!
• Virtual LoudspeakerSystem "Announciator"
• FarSpeech Personal Headset
• Total Chat System
• Chat Relay Box

Chat givers

• eacher's Aide, Classroom Edition

Attention getter

• Prim Chatter

Controlling status indicator/visual cues

• Advanced Online Indicator & Message ( onwer: Tmyclyck Dmytryk)
• En ligne

Controlling communication flow

• Meeting Control Soapbox (Eloise Pasteur) at the ICT Library
• Meeting Control Lights/Buttons (cheaper and more flexible than GK light bulbs and more flexible/features than the Soapbox)
• GK Light bulbs L$1000
• Question Mark (similar to Soapbox) L$300

Chat recorders

• Chat Logger: Script at the ICT Library
• Notetaker/Chat Recorder (Eloise Pasteur) at the ICT Library
• Temporal Gadgets Meeting Recorder

Organising discussions, debates, votes

• The Opinionator, Likert Scale - Strongly Agree to Strongly Disagree Avatars walk to express position and the tool makes a pie chart score L$ 99
• Polarizer, Avatars walk to either agree or disagree Easily made with 3 prims and floating text
• Gettin a random word
• ABTech - Contest Board L$1950
• Secret MSGR - The Anonymous Communication Device L$ 450

After session evaluation tools

• Comment Dropbox (Dedric Mauriac) at the ICT Library
• Suggestion Dropbox ( Gavin Dudeney) at Edunation FREE

Meeting facilities/Meeting spaces

• Open Round Table This table is under the GNU open Licence, costsL$0 (is a set of scripts that enables your furniture to rez a new chair whenever anyone sits in an open chair)
• Decka's Decks Conference Facility Group meeting room with automated (flying) breakout rooms, teacher pager at Terra Incognitahttp://slurl.com/secondlife/Terra%20incognita/106/88/28 L$ 9000
• Poinky's Pods, Allows for speed networking (pairs of people holding a short 5 minute conversation then swapping partners automatically at Terra incognita resource centre
• NMC Mini Theatre, Small portable theatre and seating with screen at NMC campus

Professional places with meetings, events and workshops facilities for small and large groups interaction

• Alpine Executive Center, 3-D tools for business meetings developed for use in Second Life?
• Hyperstring.net Island,
• Liventura Island,
• OnlineMeetingRooms.com,
• Teamwork Dynamics Leadership Center,
• TechTalk@SL,
• SL Educational Round Table - Every Tuesday 2.30pm PST
• Edunation II - ' A coffee with'. Sundays (until June 2008)
• Cafe 101 - Fridays (upstairs: free tools)