heres the pic of the explosion.....

The Real Exploder

Yeah I forgot the pic so here it is....

Punk Mertel

Exploder.

This is the exploder I made its really cool




Punk Mertel

moving

Today at edboost we did an scripting assingment on how to move an object at any angle just by telling it to.

Second Life pic.

WHAT I WAS DOING IS CREATING A ANOTHER OBJECT . MINE IS THE GREEN ONE. IT HAS CREATED A NOTHER OBJECT.THAT SO COOL!!!!!!!!!!LATERS!!!!!

Rezzing

I had been a little frustrated that the kids had so many pre-made objects in their inventories: they were so busy playing, it was hard to get them to program. But, in the last class, the kids learned how to rez objects and when Sin created an R2D2 and had it rez a light saber, it made me see the fun in these pre-made objects as well.

Today, I also overhead Sin say, "This is the only part of my life when I can afford to have stuff!" So, there's something pretty cool to that too...

Should be more posts coming soon -- we also have several new students who are quickly catching up.

As for my programming: today, I figured out how to rez several objects in several differnet locations! I'm kind of excited. I'm begining to understand the scripting lingo and how vectors work. So, the photo above is my "Dancing Donut" box. When someone says "dancers" the troupe of multi-flavored (color changing script -- they're blueberry and strawberry in the pic), moving (moving objects with vectors script) donuts, appear above the box (rezzing script). When someone says "exit," the dancing donuts disappear in a cloud of flames (exploding script). There are still some glitches to work out, but I'm having fun with them. :)

R2

my object is an R2-D2 that i made it pops out a pink light saber from its head <:<:<:<:<:<:<:<:<:<:<:<:<:<:<:<:<:<:<:<:<:<:<:<:<:<:<:<:<:<:<:<:<:<:<:<:<::<:<:<:<:<:

Tursday the 8th of Febuary at edboost we learned how to script exploding things and built all of our own unieck objects that explode.It was so cool!

Color changes, movement, and explosions!

When we first started, Hector was having students copy and paste programs from his blog... they got the joy of making their objects "do stuff" but they weren't thinking about the programs very hard. It was also sort of a free-for-all.... RL Hector competing with the computers for the students' attention.

So, the past two weeks, we'ved tried a new tactic. RL Hector comes with pre-printed lessons and sits down the with students AWAY from the computers to explain what they'll be learning.

He's also having the kids type the programs themselves. It's wonderful.. they're getting a sense of how detail-oriented programming is (and we love how, when a program won't save, the compiler tells us where the error is! -- this is SO great for teaching!). Typing out the programs has also helped the kids to start to think about what makes the programs work. They realize that when they forget the "llListen" command, their objects won't listen to their commands. They're learning that if they don't set the "startPosition" their objects don't move properly.

Last week Tiana asked to learn how to make objects come on command. The boys wanted to make things explode. Hector taught them both programs today. He also finally got them to learn how to talk on private channels.

Hector has tried to teach them how to talk on private channels before, but they were not terribly interested. However, once Chestnut realized that he could plant explosives all over and SHOUT "explode" to make them pop all over our parcel, he started shouting a lot. Suddenly Sin started to get frustrated because Chestnut kept exploding Sin's explodable objects WHILE he was trying to script them. Sin quickly learned how to chat on a private channel. It was our first experience of the interactive aspect of SL pushing the kids to better programming.

I've made multi-flavored donuts and I'm trying to teach them to dance.... hopefully I'll have a photo tomorrow to post up here.

Building

Today I built a new house on Second Life. Here it is...

like a gunner

hi my name is corey . i been playing with my friends we have fun. i made a lot of stuff. i made a house ,a boat a garge and other cool stuff. i also have a sercet base, under water. i REALLY WANT TO KNOW HOW TO SRIPT REALLY GOOD.

Second life is so cool, i have learned alot of new cool stuff. I really plan to learn alot more and im so excited to that im going to be able to know how to do all these cool things.

SECOND LIFE ROCKS
TIANA LOPEZ

MY SECOND LIFE EXPERIENCE

I have had many fun, interesting, and useful times on Edboost Island, in Second Life with my friends. My times on second life have been interesting because I have learned about and how to do things that I didn't even know were posible. The times are also useful because I have learned computer skills that I will use for the rest of my life. Last but not least, the most thing I've had is fun building things, learning, and playing with my friends.

Second Life is fun

i want two make new things tomarrow and last week was fun we did boxes that talk two us min esaid this is anthony box Hello master i enjoyed it............................By

Learnig

What I want to learn next is how to make new clothes. Im going to ask ed how to do it. I made a box. If you click on it says this is Alexis box she is my master.

Secrets

A secret on edboost is land a secret base in the island but I cant tell you zip if u find it ill give you a special prize that I made