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<p><span style="font-size: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);">Steve Says:</span></strong></span></span></p>

<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);">Here is a page to add interesting new tools for Second Life. You <strong><em>will have to have the capability to turn on the "Build' button</em></strong> (bottom of your screen right in the center.) OK - so I know that this is probably easier said than done, so, for those of you <em><strong>having a hassle getting the build button to even turn on,</strong></em> here is a friendly area where you can create stuff: <a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Carlisle/114/76/23">http://slurl.com/secondlife/Carlisle/114/76/23</a></span>  </p>

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<p><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><strong>Scratch for Second Life:</strong></span></p>

<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">First off: here is a link to the "Scratch 4 Second Life" tool I talked about at the meeting on Friday, October 24th, 2008:</span></p>

<p><a href="http://web.mit.edu/%7Eeric_r/Public/S4SL/"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">web.mit.edu/~eric_r/Public/S4SL/</span></a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">  <span class="style1">With S4SL, you can snap together a few blocks to make your SL pet interact with you using chat commands, make your sculpture change size and color, or make your house respond to your presence.</span></span></p>

<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">There are some instructions on the MIT site (<strong><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);">Scratch for Second Life</span></strong>) which may be a little convoluted... Where it talks about a <span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><strong>"hat"</strong></span> object... it is really talking about a <span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><strong>control object</strong></span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">(</span>top right of the script types box), so you can start off with "when I am touched,"  then add a <span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><strong>"looks"</strong></span> object (funny - looks includes using your mouth...!) "say "Hello"" - next, more <span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><strong>"looks"</strong></span> object(s) perhaps: "change ghost effect by 10"  - finally, let's use the <span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><strong>"sound"</strong></span> object: "play sound clang" (Notice that the scripts take pre-arranged variables.) So you see, it's playing with variables around simple script classifications and it doesn't take much more than point and click programming.</span></p>

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<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">This I think is huge for education... You are going to be able to use all of this to build simple objects that actually do things...</span></p>

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<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">Here is what MIT suggests you make with S4SL:</span></p>

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    <li><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">Plants that react to people passing by</span></li>

    <li><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">A pet that does tricks when you give it chat commands</span></li>

    <li><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">Toys that change color, spin, or turn invisible</span></li>

    <li><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">A floor that reacts when you step on it</span></li>

    <li><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">A house with doors and windows that automatically open and close</span></li>

    <li><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">Interactive clothing or other crazy things you can attach to your body</span></li>

    <li><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">Whatever else you can imagine!</span></li>

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<p>Here are some ideas I had for educational things:</p>

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    <li>Interactive whiteboard ("reacts" to certain things being written/drawn on it...)</li>

    <li>Autoannouncer for people arriving in a classroom - (class roll call?)</li>

    <li>SL Skills test - (probably more programming than this little program would allow, but a great resource!)</li>

    <li>Maybe a way of automating the start of an audio-visual presentation on a button press. (I am still trying to figure out how to make it show YouTube at zero cost!)</li>

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<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">Let me know how you all get on with this...</span></p>

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<p><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><strong>Three Green Eggs Autoscript:</strong></span></p>

<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">This site,</span> <a href="http://www.3greeneggs.com/autoscript/"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">http://www.3greeneggs.com/autoscript/</span></a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">, will help you create scripts for your Second Life objects. These scripts allow you to add interactive elements to your builds without knowing how to code. All of the script are released under a creative commons license, which means that you can use them freely!</span></p>

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