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User Manual of Experience Chinese Lesson in Second Life (beta1)

 

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User Manual of Experience Chinese Lesson in Second Life

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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”

         Finally, you can be teleported to  “virtual living lab” by clicking  “teleport”.

 

 

You can open this webpage  http://slurl.com/secondlife/Virtual%20Living%20Lab/119/186/21
and choose to « teleport now». After you log in with your username and password, you can arrive at  “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.

 

 

 

 

 

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