Sorurall Virtual Learning World

Developed under the framework of “SORURALL” EU funded projectProject Coordinator: Research Academic Computer Technology Institute (a non profit Research Institute

supervised by the Greek Ministry of Education)

www.sorurall.eu

An open source Social Networking Environment to support Lifelong

Learning in rural territories

• Application in several countries (Greece, Spain, Ireland, Bulgaria, Germany) and target groups (students, teachers, entrepreneurs, workers etc)

• Specific pedagogic scenarios per target groups

• All scenarios are to be implemented in real cases within 2010

Main Screen

http://daisy.cti.gr/sorurall/

SelectLanguage/ Portal

Registration

• Create a new account

• Request your password of an existing account

• Log in to the site using your existing username and password

Create new account (1)

•Desired username – common for all Virtual World Applications

•Valid email address – account activation details will emailed there

•Select “I agree” for web chat terms and conditions

•Click that button at the bottom of the page.

Create new account (2)

• After a few minutes (usually instantly) you will receive a confirmation mail

• When the system administrator approves your registration you will receive a new mail with a login link

• Visit the emailed link in order to set a password for your account

• Registration completed!

Request a new password

If you are an existing user but you have forgot your password

Enter your Sorurall Virtual World username or the email address that you had used during your registration.

The system will email you (usually instantly) a link to the Sorurall Virtual World

Use this link once to create a new password for your account

User’s main page

•Available applications – each one explained in details later in this presentation

•User’s menu

•User’s personal space

User’s menu

From this menu the user may add his/her own content to the Virtual world. She/he may write a new blog entry, upload a video (or link to a YouTube video) and create a new page to the Sorurall Wiki

The user through “my account” may change or add personal information. The only information that it cannot be changed is the username.

Customization of user’s personal space

Personal Space

The user may customize the information that appears (in boxes) to his/her personal space at the main page. This may be a link to his/her favorite application (e.g. eLearning) or data from favorites applications (e.g. Newest Wiki Pages)

She/he may select up to 3 options.

Blogs

The main page of Blogs application – the newest blog posts from all blogs

•Read the specific blog post

•See all posts for a specific user’s blog

•Add a comment to this blog

Create Blog postTitle of the blog entry

Tags for this blog entry – will be used to the tag cloud and search

Reach text editor – Many text formatting options,

upload photos and more!Save or preview

your post

External Applications

In this area the user may find a list of links to other useful sites or applications. This applications are not connected to the Sorurall Virtual World.

This links are added from the administrator of each portal

Video Sharing – View videos

Search for uploaded videos

List with recent videos

Click to view this video

See the description of a video

Comment this video

Video Sharing – Upload fileEnter a title for the video

Select the video file from your PC (avi, wmv, mpg, mov)

Non expert users leave this fields as is. Will be auto

completed from the system

Rich text editor for video’s description

Save or preview your new video

Video Sharing – YouTube Video

At the create content menu the user may select YouTube.

The only difference is that instead of an “upload a file” form the “Video URL” form appears.

The user copies and pastes the YouTube URL, add description and title for the video as before and the video is appearing to the Sorurall Virtual World.

This method is ideal for flv video files and when the user wants to share a video with other (external or Sorurall Virtual World) applications

Wiki – Main Page

Newest Wiki Pages

Search for existing Wiki Pages

Wiki – create pageTitle of the

new Wiki Page

Tags for the tag cloud and

search

Rich text editor for the

wiki page

At body, create links to existing wiki pages using this syntax: [[some text]], where "some text" is the title of

existing wiki page or the title of a page that will be create at the future from any Sorurall Virtual World User.

Instant Messenger

• Chat with other online users that share the same language

• Select a user from the list of online users and use the text box to send your message

message textbox

list of online users

Web Chat

• This module provides chatrooms where many users may participate in conversations

• In order to access the module use the link in the header as shown below

• Then you may enter the chatroom of the visited page (e.g. International chat) and select one of the available discussions (chats)

Web Chat

list of available chats

Web Chat

list of online users

discussion area

messages textbox

Video Chat

• This module allows users to participate in video conference sessions

• In order to access the module use the link in the header as shown below

• Then click the following link and the video chat will open as an external application

Video Chat

• Recommended browser: Firefox + Add block plus add-on

list of available users

your camera is shown here

enable sound

other peoplecamera is shownhere

Press to start video chat

Social Network

• This external application provides social networking capabilites among all users

• In order to access it use the link in the header as shown below

• Then click the following link and the social network will open as an external application

Social Network - Dashboard

settings link

message inboxtools

Dashboard: by editing thispage the user can add dashletswith the latest info about socialactivity in the network

Social Network - Settings

• The settings page allows users to view their account statistics, edit their profile icon, configure their tools and change settings about notifications they receive

Social Network - Inbox

• Users are able to compose and send messages to their peers and read their received messages through the inbox page

Social Network - Tools

• The Social Networking application provides many social networking tools as:– blogs (create and read blogs)– bookmarks (bookmark content)– files (upload files)– friends (establish friendships)– groups (create friends groups)– members (browse members’ profile)– pages (create pages)– the wire (global chat room)

e-Learning

• This external application provides an e-Learning environment

• In order to access it use the link in the header as shown below

• Then click the following link and the e-Learning environment will open as an external application

e-Learning

e-Learning - Agenda

• View your agenda/calendar with courses, activities

e-Learning – Subrscribe to a training

• Visit training management from the trainings page

• Then, click Subscribe to a Training

e-Learning – Subrscribe to a training

• Select a training category

• Subscribe to a course

Subscribe

Forum

• The Forum module allows users to discuss topics of their interest

• In order to access the module use the link in the header as shown below

• Then enter in the Sorurall Forum

Forum – Create a post

• Click the Post new Forum topic link

• Create the topicTopic Subject

Topic Description

Save topic

Forum – Add Comments

• Select the topic for which you want to add a comment

• Click the Add a new comment link

Forum – Add Comments

comment subject

your comment

preview the commentbefore publishing

Forum – Add Commentscomment preview

make changes

save your comment

Contact PointContact Point

John Garofalakis– “Telematics Center” dept, Research Academic

Computer Technology Institute (RACTI). • garofala@cti.gr• +30 2610 960430• Patras, GREECE

– RACTI: www.cti.gr – “Telematics Center” of RACTI: www.westgate.gr