the one-hundred-and-seventh episode of ventriloquy concludes - for now - my thoughts and reflections on the recent inaugural Second Life Best Practices in Education conference. i've attempted to cover this conference through two primary means - one by blogging directly from in-world, through Koz Farina's eminently useful blogHUD (vide the three posts immediately preceding this one), and two by blogging post-facto in a much more reflective manner, as is my custom.
frankly, the pictures i uploaded from in-world using blogHUD took such a long time to appear here in this blog (and when they did, the order had been jumbled and i had to apply a bit of post-processing - not all that surprising, because they had a transit stop at flickr along the way) that i resorted to taking traditional screen captures instead.
do join me as i celebrate my first fortnight in Second Life, in this 9.1 MB download :-)
trapped in my own skybox :-P (a quick and dirty bit of problem-solving rezzing)
Jeremy Braver (RL: Jeremy Koester, 8th Grade Math teacher from San Antonio, TX) giving us the grand tour of Liber Terra Island at We The Living
Jeremy's session was entitled 'Gaming and Learning in SL: an outside-the-box look at immersive environment opportunities in SL'
Jeremy showing us a holodeck
operating at the boundaries between the real and imagined: setting foot in the SMS simultaneous-installation
here's a shot of me interacting with an (entirely coincidentally) almost identically-clad person in Amsterdam
people fall asleep at virtual conferences too
Show notes:
- Take me out to the holosuite (Memory Alpha, the Star Trek wiki)
- metaverse (wikipedia entry)
- W H Auden (wikipedia entry)
- Gertrude Stein (wikipedia entry)
- the Gaming and Learning in Second Life group managed by Jeremy Braver
- my 18 April 2006 blog entry (the quantum classroom ®)
- Art Fossett's 20 April blog entry (An English village) Artsplace SL
- Tabitha Tsai's 22 May blog entry (Global Kids presents Prof. James Paul Gee on Sloodle!) SLED Picayune
- Jeska Linden's 24 May entry (the plan for voice) Second Life blog
- Owen Kelly's 25 May editorial for the SLED Picayune (Underlying pedagogical assumptions)
- the SMS simultaneous-installation by Overig Solzhenitsyn at the Chiellerie gallery, Amsterdam, and in-world, at Lhotse
[update: quinn.anya has an excellent reflective piece on the conference (At a virtual conference in my real pyjamas) over at her blog Alamai]
Featured wardrobe:
- navy fitted tee, by Avant Scofield, the Good Life, at Sterling Pointe
- olive loose-fit microfibre cargos, by Truth Hawks, Truth, at Odessa Luxurious
