the one-hundred-and-seventeenth episode of ventriloquy introduces my most ambitious project in Second Life to date.
St Michel - the Jules Verne Museum is likely the first facility of its size in Second Life to honour the life and creative works of Jules Gabriel Verne.
please do join me in this 1.9 MB download, in which i share with you a little of how i came to conceptualise the Museum, and some of the design considerations that i attempted to bear in mind while building it.
it's been extremely challenging constructing something of this scale, so far outside my zone of comfort and domain expertise. yet at the same time, for these very reasons, the learning journey that this endeavour represents has been equally rewarding, and arguably more so than usual.
whether you're a Verne aficionado, or a Verne newbie, whether you're approaching the Museum as a casual visitor, or as a curriculum designer, it is my hope that there's a lesson somewhere for each of us to ponder :-)
Show notes:
- A View to a Kill (wikipedia entry)
[update 1: as of 25 August 2008, the Museum is closed. i would like to thank all of you who took the time to visit :-)
update 2: as of 1 January 2009, please visit the Museum at its new location at Lily]
