User Manual of Experience Chinese Lesson in Second Life
A、Get an Account
from Second Life
You need a Second Life account and the
client software to get access to the Virtual Living Lab. Follow the
instructions below and go discovering an unexpected virtual world that you
have never explored before!
Get a free Second Life account
Visit https://join.secondlife.com/, follow
the instructions (3 simple steps), and get a free Second Life account!!
1.
First, choose your starting
look and name, and then offer your information to create an account.

2.
After creating an account,
your will receive an email for confirmation. You have to open the email and
click the link which says “CLICK HERE TO ACTIVATE YOUR ACCOUNT”.
Virtual
Living Lab Software Installation Guide
1
Visit
http://secondlife.com/support/downloads.php to download software.
1.1
Click to install the file
1.2
Select the language of the installation
program

1.3
Determine the directory of
Second Life

3.
Wait until the process ends.
You will be asked to start the program immediately or not, and it’s up to
you.
There are two ways to get access to
the Virtual Living Lab quickly.
1
From
your desktop of your computer
1.1
Clickth
Second lif icon on your destop
1.2
Fill
in your username and password that you register to log in on Second life.

After you log in with your username and
password, you will be placed in scenario as below screen capture
Click the 【Map button】 to start the 【World Map】
and search for “virtual living lab”
B. Please
register for a Chinese Plaza account first.
You will need to confirm your account
with our platform which we can record your mission process. You will find the
NPC with Information title whom stand in the plaza. After you finish
the registration, you will also get some tools, such as MAP, mission walkthrough
and HUD.
1. Click the NPC outside the airport and
she will prompt you to open the register website.
Click Go to page:

Normally the webpage will open in the second life internal
browser. If you want to open it in your external browser such as Firefox,
please click “Open in my Web Browser”
After you enter your e-mail address
and password, you will see a message shows on your screen” Thanks for your
registration! You can back to second life and to continue the Chinese
learning.” When you see the message, it means you have completed the
registration.

C、 Second Life Instruction
1.
Moving and flying
To move your
avatar, use arrow keys on your keyboard. In addition, you can hit E to start
flying and C to landing. You can also start flying using the bottom menu.
2.
Inventory
You can open
inventory in the menu section
On the left hand side are all the items and
The right hand
side are the recently items.

3.
Enlarge Object
Place the
cursor on the object you want to enlarge, just hit Alt on keyboard and move
it upward. On the other hand, your can narrow the object by moving the mouse.
You can use Esc to recover the screen

4.
Touch
You can click the left hand side of the
mouse or the right hand side of the object to view the menu and choose Touch.

Virtual
Living Lab Procedure
1
The first mission is Stage 0 , you can touch the NPC and begin the mission.

2
Your first time at Virtual
Living Lab
If this is
your first time to use Virtual Living Lab, the NPC (Non-Player Character) on the
Stage will say: Welcome, you have not had an account in Chinese Plaza,
please register an account in Chinese Plaza. You
can click the link which will be shown on the screen and choose “ go to page” and register an account in Chinese Plaza.:

Fill in with
your email and password and submit it

3
Wear
In order to get the mission object, you
can use inventory and click the right hand side of mouse and choose Wear

The object HUD
and MAP are below.

4
The Green exclamation mark
means NPC mission. You can follow the mission
number to process it
When you see
the green arrow which means this is the mission
goods and you can use Touch to get it.

5
If you need to be teleported
to where the next mission is, the NPC will say: Please teleport to the room.
You can touch the transmit object to be teleported to next scenario.

6
When you complete the whole
mission, the NPC will inform you “excellent, you have finished the whole
mission
D、Choose Any Scenario to Go Through Different Mission
After registration,
you can begin your mission. In our island, we have created four scenarios,
such as airport, hotel, restaurant and street.
You will
need to get your mission map by clicking the information NPC andthis map while you go through
the mission.
(click the inventory→map right hand side mouse and
choose wear). This map doesn’t only provide the scenario locations, but
also different mission destinations. You can go
to different mission destination by walking or clicking the map to teleport to next mission. In
addition, if you have further question while you go through the
mission, you can click the 《Help》on the map, you would find out a walkthrough instruction.
After you get
the gadget from information, you can take your time and complete mission from four scenarios. After you
complete the mission from four scenarios, the system will ask you to submit
the questionnaire in the last scenario.
F、Recommendation
We are welcome
people who are interested in learning Chinese to visit our island, therefore,
we would encourage you invite your friends to join us. If the person whom you
have invited joins us, you would receive the 10 bonus.
More people you invited, you would receive more bonus.
G、Taking the Chinese Lesson
When you
complete the registration, you would receive a Chinese lesson
coupon. You can check the lesson
schedule in from of the classroom and choose
the suitable time and join the lesson.
Before you
take your lesson, you would need to click the NPC who stand in the
classroom to make sure that you
have joined the lesson. After you take the lesson,
you would need to submit the lesson
questionnaire and receive 30 bonus.