Questions for the Teacher

[Dean Groom]

Just post up any questions you have ....

[RAMY]

how do you record on secondlife and also how do you save or even upload things on secondlife

[Dean Groom]

there are a number of ways to 'record the screen'. One application is called Camtasia on a PC or CamTwist on a Macintosh. I can show you how to do this in the main PBL room, at lunchtime. What you will need to do is screen record a series of 'shots', then bring these 'clips' into iMovie and then add the voice over and sound effects - this is called post production.

Uploading textures is done from the file menu. You can search Google for 'textures second life upload', and this will give you a list of sites that will tell you how to do it. You then 'apply' one of these to an object you have created. You can look at Torley Lindens video tutorials on YouTube too.

What you need to do is outline what you intend to do, using a storyboard. This is just a sequence of still images (screen shots) that describe the main events in your movie. Then under these, indicate the dialogue that you are going to use. You will have that in your Social Studies work.

So post up your dialogue, then add your screen shots. We can look at this, talk about it and then you'll be ready to film. It will save you a lot of time and frustration later. The audio/voice will be added in iMovie right at the end.

So post up your ideas and dialogue. Great, sensible questions. See you Weds lunchtime!

[Dean Groom]

I bought Camtasia - let me know when you need to record something.

[DylanMc]

Sir how do yu snapshot properly?

[Dean Groom]

in the menu, there is an option - take snaphot to disc - use that or cheap and dirty way is to press print screen and paste it into paint and save it.

[DylanMc]

Hello sir, our group wants to make clothes for our play and we need the template. Can we please have it?

[Dean Groom]

Do a search for 'Second Life Robin Wood Templates' - and grab the Photoshop files - Lots of people have these in the class already.

[Abenn]

could you come in and show the whole class how to record