Start Using CUT & PASTE within 2ndLife Classes

Who else uses the Copy and Paste technique? Does anyone have the "ultimate classroom text" made? Hahaha.. I'm working on mine. >

I really dont want to respond to this , but, biasum IS a word. However it may be better known in spelling as "biasim" which is also a word. use all ofer the internet.

and NO, I have not implied your being inferior or uneducated.
{there did that idea come from?} .. unless ,,, your guilty from the understatement of your initial comment based on how it was initially coined in the media.



ok that's it, I'm done!

I use Copy and Paste in my Jeopardy, and in Show and Tell. I am planning some for SL Basics too, but it is hard to forecast what question will be asked in that class.

At risk of bringing this thread back on track, I wrote a dippy little script to do this in my early days of teaching. It is attached below for use by anyone. A brief description from the header comments:

// lectern v2.0 - gives a canned speech from a object
//
// how to use - put this script in a prim put a notecard containg the speech into the prim as well
//      each click on the prim utters another line from the notecard until they are all "spoken"
//      if you name the object the same as your AV the utterances will look more like they come from
//      "you" although they will still appear as script "chat" (usually a different color).
//      There is no command to back up a line; there is a way to "rewind" by uttering the resetCmd
//      "lectern reset" is the default below. You may intersperse normal chat in between script utterances
//      thus allowing the main "lecture" to proceed according to "script" with questions and answers in
//      between. There is a "debounce" that ignores multiple clicks in quick succession - I don't know if this
//      issue still exists.  There was another version of the script that allowed a "slide show" to accompany
//      the text but I screwed up the geometry badly (I was but a newb) - but if you ask real nicely....

Enjoy.

Getting back to Zetta's orginal post, and being a long time instructor (and instructor of the month! <I hear a horn blowing>, I confess I used to cut and paste when I taught intro to building. The class became very boring to teach and I gave it up.

Now I teach Basic Texturing and User Interface class. I don't cut and paste any more, I really want to enjoy the classes as much as anyone else. I find that there is so much information in both classes that all of it rarely gets covered. I try to take as many questions as those who are there wish to ask and I find that with this, each class might take a different direction. No one looses out tho, there is a wealth of information to tap into and share.

I teach from an outline that I made from going thro the subject option by option. I try to highlight important points and always try to emphaisis that in SL, it all really comes together by doing. Then I make myself available via im at any time to those who attend. I have even offered my outline to students, typos and all.

Sometimes attending a class twice or maybe with different instructors rounds out the learning experience.

You must remember that the instructors are just inworld users as yourself, with no special training for this. For myself, I am just there to guide new people who often turn out to be way more talented than I.


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?!?! !?!? ........... there must B a (cyber)GOD somewhere

I have just two things to say...

One is to Malachi. Thank you for the script!! I can think of times when it will come in very handy for me!

And two; Zetta, please don't hog the drugs!!


hehe.. j/k

Oh now let me, well,, Cut&Paste... from my opening thread
-> "should start Cutting and Pasting from a preweitten TEXT file that has everything 2B typed"
Which means exactly as written. Everything "TO BE TYPED".
All classrooms (in this case, ON-LINE) has course text that WILL be typed, over and over again... Wouldnt it be nice to defeat typing redundancies in such a case with "Cut&Paste"?
Furthermore, although -- (Due to current time-lines and resources ) there may be challenges in one's attempt to forecast what questions may/will be asked during class (is self edvent) and certainly NOT what my comment implied one should try to do. -
However, being able to forecast the course structure isnt much challenging since all that is required is the following of a topic.

You know Zetta, you could always become a mentor or instructor and organize your class your way.


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HAY! Thanks!! for the Very nice comment you pinned me up (On the face of a Dart Board ) so the credit of my image can collect many good points !!
How in cyberhell did drugs get into the picture? I dont do DRUGS ( as your comment implied ) The closest I ever got to drugs is reading about it,, such as in your last comment (which I might add was a lethal AND clever "Injection" [pun not intended] into my character) .... Oh and daa,,,
"Just Kidding"

OH my (cyber ) GOD!! -(fainted)......

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(revocering)
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(recovered) - I've been thinking that 4 such a long long time.

I envy (and love ) all the mentors, instructors and all the associated associates!

I always felt that I can do bett - .. BEST as a student to learn how things work 1st.

All well and good Zetta but SL Basics is not a class per se but an Orientation. Questions run the gamut of how to use a map, how to fly, where is the nearest war game, how to make money, how and where to buy land, how to dance, where do the cute chicks hang out, how to build a house, what is Linden scripting language based on.

The list is endless, that is why I love having at least one other Mentor there to help field the questions.

Bah.. my fault... Was making a light hearted joke about the wildness of your posts. Whether I agree with what you have said or did not say, I must say your speaking/writing reminds me of myself sometimes when I've just drunk a whole pot of coffee. So the "dont hog the drugs" line was meant sort of like me saying "hey! I want what she's/he's having!". I'm sure not a single soul reading this thread thinks that you are a drug user based on my comment. But I am sorry you misunderstood me.

(still missing the point ) as I said B4, ... no better yet,,, since we both agree that "SL Basics" is a topic ,, (Regardless of whether it's a Gathering, Group discussion, Orentation, [at a bar ]) it still would B under the umbrella of the topic's pont and with that, the same point will be made. Nevertheless, within 2ndLife, some kind of structure needs to be in place to prevent question from steering the Orentation (if u will ) to every end but the one intended by it's title.
According to your comment -> "Questions run the gamut of how to use a map, how to fly,... etc.. "
Yet,, as an instructor, your students are there to listen "to" you.
You post statement #1 - (Proactive)
- students respond (dynamics)
You post statement #2 - (Proactive)
- students respond (dynamics) ... and so on until the POINT of the class (Orentation ) topic is completed at which time you open the session into total dynamics.

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(here we go again ) .. ohkay... "eh'HUM!" we seem to continually get attacked by people who have issues with creativity or in this case, advanced expression.
However, (fortunatly ) the impact of Creativity out weighs the impact of THEIR kind of thinking, else, we'd all still be waving Clubs rather than going OUT to them
Furthermore, I'm glad such comment occurred on 02/18/2004 rather than 02/18/1804 where U get accused as being a wicked witch and burned alive for merely stating it was going to rain "and it DID" (not that a cloudy day had anything to do with it ) ...[Must have taken the "BLUE" pill ]

I am confused... what is "biasum?" It sounds like putting a Latin suffix on an English word that already has its own. What does it mean? What is the true etymology of this word?

He said he meant "biassim" (which also isn't a word).

Even the phrase "systematic bias" doesn't make sense. I want nothing more than to know whether or not to be offended.

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WOW!! I am totally amazed at how many responses THIS THREAD accumulated
AND - how many times it was viewed. This thread shot up to 3rd place as the most viewed -
(Although 65 % of the actual replies are wise-guy whipper snapping )

Nevertheless, in my reply to the above quotes, -Biasum should have been "biasim" (Also, Biassim is a typo.)
for all it's worth. simply goto your browser and type "Biasim" and U'll C all the places of it's correct use.

Furthermore, "Systematic Biasim" is just as grammatically Coined as "Politicially Correct"!, Neither of which in their OWN light, makes sense.
However, when words like these are attached to an issue/event of some kind and therefore then, "COINED" then a meaning to such pairing of words NOW become an addition into the list paraphrases.
Having read this, re-read it again ,, and ,, I think it will come to you
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NOW! can we keep the thread within it's topic? .... Please?