MOO Basics and Buildings
The MOO Pedagogy Seminar is a non-credit short seminar and will cover how to use the MOO in your class as a discussion space, how to build in the MOO and get students building, and the basics of MOO programming. This seminar is pedagogically oriented, but discussions of other research with the MOO is certainly included within the dynamics of teaching in the MOO. Because this seminar is pedagogically oriented, the class will have guest speakers who have taught in the MOO and the speakers will be bringing in sample assignments to discuss and share.
Schedule
See the NWE MOO Help Pages for more.
July 14: Wednesday 9-10:30am
- Introduction: What is the MOO?
- Chatting and Walking around the MOO
- Fun stuff: Thinking, Beavis-ing, Spazing, exploring New York
- Types of MOO commands - those used for chatting, those used for emoting/looking, describing (but that don't actually affect the geography of the MOO), those used for actual movement, and those used for building. Today will cover all except those used for building.
July 21: Wednesday 9-10:30am
- Using Autobuilder: how it can be an easy start, and give confidence, and then you can tweak with actual verbs
- Building Rooms and Objects (@create and @dig)
Links and Resources
Connections MOO: Lots of Tutorials
Participants
- Clay Arnold (garnold@nwe.ufl.edu)
- Cathlena Martin (cathlena@ufl.edu)
- Jessica Espinosa (jespinos@ufl.edu)
- Kadesh Minter (kminter@nwe.ufl.edu)
- Aron Pease (apease@english.ufl.edu)