Feb
3rd
Tue
3rd
In the virtual world Susan Reynolds is Tynan Clary.
Find me at twitter: Artsy Asylum blog or root through my repository of things to get to know me.
In both virtual and physical worlds I'm a big picture person who helps others enhance their visibility.
Aug
22nd
Fri
22nd
One of my favorite online classroom tools is Second Life. This method has the similar structure as land schools in that there is generally one teacher to a classroom of students, but teachers can easily share resource links, notes, etc while they are talking, and there is just something way more fun about sitting in a virtual classroom over a land classroom. Colleges now teach in Second Life and other virtual worlds, and there is no limit to the topics that can be taught. Second Life also provides free courses on prim building, so if you don’t want to be only a participant, you can begin creating your own worlds, towns, or university. Soon, I’ll be attending some of these building classes as I’m starting to get curious how this process works. (via Virtual Classrooms in Geeksville : Dana in Geeksville
)
Aug
21st
Thu
21st
. . the meaning of “sticky” has changed. It used to refer to a site’s ability to keep viewers “stuck” interacting with content. But now the trend that began with Flickr for photos and YouTube for video is accelerating as software and systems evolve to make it easier for us to leave behind digital breadcrumbs of our real lives on the internet.
Perhaps the virtual world will simply be a somewhat altered reflection of our existing one. What do you think?
Aug
20th
Wed
20th
This one actually happened: I was on a ferryboat out to an island when a thick fog rolled in. Everything more than a yard from the boat was enveloped in a greyish-white haze.
I turned to my husband and said, “It’s like the world hasn’t rezzed yet.”
And he knew what I meant.
by Mistletoe August 20, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Locks of Love and Hair Fair 08
Model:
Shelby Ziskey
Second Life Hair Fair 2008 will take place August 22 through September 7 with each designer creating three to five new hairstyles each that will debut at the event being hosted on FOUR sims.
Leave your bling and prim heavy hair and garb at home folks because even with those four sims lagw will be horrendous.
Lag aside, it’s well worth a visit to scope out new - and old - designers and because 50% of the proceeds from one style to the Locks of Love charity.
Dont expect links to the sims to work until the 22nd - but here they are:
inworld discussion of the book “Coming of Age in SecondLife”
Steelhead Public Library Book Discussion - Coming of Age in SecondLife
Sunday August 24, 2pm
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Anteater%20Island/71/108/24
The Steelhead Public Library is proud to sponsor an inworld discussion of the book “Coming of Age in SecondLife” by Tom Boellstorff.
Mr Boellstorff has (sl name Tom Bukowski) been on SL since 2004. In real life, he is a professor of anthropology at the University of California Irvine. This book is an ethnographic study of SecondLife and looks at SL from the standpoint of a cutlural anthropologist.
The author draws heavily upon his knowledge about ethnographic traditions and his previous fieldwork in Indonesia, in order to place his fieldwork in SL into perspective. He does a good job of describing how his study was conducted and the ethical principles he employed while doing it.
“It was a joy to read a book about SecondLife where I kept nodding my head instead of gnashing my teeth. The chapters describing SL activities and social conventions rang true to me and focused on the things I love about SL - it’s culture of community, sharing, and friendship. The author obviously knows SL well and loves being here.”
Riven Homewood
Director, Steelhead Public Library
This event is open to anyone with a serious interest in how we live on SecondLife and the ways in which academics are studying us. The discussion will be held in the American Anthropologist Virtual Auditorium on Anteater Island.
Tom will use voice for the talk and text for q&a.
It is not necessary to have read the book in order to participate, but book’s first chapter is available online at the Princeton University Press website at
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8647.html for those who would like
to read it.
Aug
15th
Fri
15th
Accenture SL island and development paid for itself after only 5-6 events
Accenture, named by Business Week #8 in “Best Places to Launch a Career in 2007” has been using Second Life since 2006 and the recruiting done there has paid for itself. What was gratifying to hear was that their island and development paid for itself after only 5-6 events.
According to ThinkBalm’s Erica Driver:
“If you think about recruitment at Accenture taking place in 49 countries, and each of these countries using the Accenture Careers island rather than building its own, the cost savings really start to stack up.”
But is getting up to speed in Second Life too hard; too steep a learning curve? Not if Accenture’s goals are taken into consideration.
They are looking for tech-savvy people and they show at least some skill if they can create Second Life accounts and relatively professional-looking avatars, find their way to the Accenture Careers island and the specific meeting location, and communicate with the recruiter via text chat or voice.
Smart. Smart company and smart people.
Lindens are lovely validation. Generally they’re here for work purposes and don’t often get out and about in world just for socializing. If they turn up at your gig or build or event it usually means they’ve heard around the office that you’ve got something special worth seeing, or they’ve taken special time out of their day to go look.
—
Pavig Lok (and I really miss his regular blogging since earlier this year) in comments on:
New World Notes: Open Forum: Does It Matter To You If The Lindens Love Your Second Life Content?
Virtual Worlds Day Panel: Wed Aug 20
A discussion about the current state of virtual worlds and how they may evolve in the future will begin at 3 Pacific/ 6 Eastern.
What do we hope to see? What would be a “bad” outcome? Panelists: Malburns Writer, Tara Yeats, Olando7 DeCosta.
In Chilbo (click here to teleport).
