Exploring a scenario of use with K-12 students.

Recommended best practice is to start use SL to build, build, build (avatar also).

One example could be to build collaboratively a giant 3D cell (science). Build the elements of a cell (nucleus, etc). The problem for them could be how to represent the 3D cell and the functions of the elements in SL which can be done in multiple ways.

Before they can build or during building they need to learn about cells and the functions of the elements and how the elements is presented visually by others (often this is in 2D). They can use Diigo Group to collaboratively research this and clip visual and text pieces on websites and tag them according to the elements of the cell and other pieces that they find relevant to solve the problem and understand how the cell functions (e.g., illustrations for reference while building the cell)...which they further could refer to/use in the 3D representation depending on how they collaboratively build it. And further to introduce the students to scripting in the objects (the cell) they could make for a element of the cell a "touch" on it and url opens in the browser with information about that particular element/function which they have prepared with tags in Diigo e.g.

http://www.diigo.com/tag/nucleus

Comments and suggestions on this is very welcome.

Ole
SL: Abbath Heron

Hi,

I am new to this SL group. I have been using Diigo for a while and i work with educational research. So I am very interested in how Diigo-SecondLife can be used in education. I have been exploring secondlife and diigo lately as i am working on a paper on them. So it would be great if anyone could explain/bookmark how Diigo can mash into secondlife? The technology/API..

Here is a learning management system mash to SL: http://www.sloodle.com/

Cheers
Ole

SL: Abbath Heron

Welcome Abbath,

I am interested too, how to bridge the two systems. From the Web into SL there is an easy way to make connections. Leave in some wiki, annotation or some other page, where you have write access, a link via slurl.
For the converse you need to learn the script language of SL or find someone who can script it.
Until the end of year, the rumor goes, that you will have HTML on prims.
If this feature is realized, this lends itself to resp. feature requests for Diigo, TrailFire and the other social annotation systems.
Perhaps Diigo will even anticipate it ;-)

MayAllBeHappy
Fridemar

Have started bookmark examples.

Ole