On Aug 22, 9:30 (Singapore time) Aaron Delwiche of Metaversality, Grace Lim of Temasek Polytechnic, Scot Osterweil of MIT, and Catherine Bracy and Gene Koo from Harvard hosted a workshop at the State of Play Conference in Singapore. Part of the conference was convened inworld at Berkman (run by Harvard Law) in Second Life. Avatars […]
Lowell Cremorne took some time out to organise an email interview with me recently – the results are at SLOZ – Australia’s Second Life News Source.
Teaching On the Second Life Stage: Playful Educational Strategies for Serious Purposes CDB Barkley, Anya Ixchel and Kim Pasternak discuss the drama. Yesterday, Anya Ixchel (Angela Thomas) and Kim Pasternak (me) presented our session at the New Media Consortium’s Symposium on Creativity in Second Life. We used aspects of Process Drama to develop a […]
I have recently returned from Hong Kong where I spent 3 weeks involved in a range of academic programs. The first was the ICT2007 conference where I spent a couple of days with some really creative IT educators from school and university sectors. I presented a couple of papers and attended several others. The second […]
You may be interested in these sites emerging from the Drama and New Media SIG at the IDEA WORLD CONGRESS in Hong Kong http://dramaNmedia.wikispaces.com http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=3481320636 Also C&T are building an archive of Drama related podcasts http://www.candt.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=72&Itemid=31 We also managed to make a bit of a splash during the Keynote session today. When was the last […]
A talented young Second Life user, Katherine Berry (15) has recently released the alpha version of her AjaxLife – a tool that allows Second Life residents to log in to the world via a web browser. The application sacrifices the graphical components of the world but allows chat, IM and mapping functions. The tool has […]
Jokay Wollongong and Sean Fitzgerald recently hosted the first Australasian conference in Second Life. They have also put together this SL newbie tips video: Angela Thomas provides a brief review.
In response to a discussion with a colleague about representations of disability in Second Life I started wondering about “The Appropriation of Disability” what an interesting concept. I have met a few people who are wheelchair bound in SL and I don’t think they are in RL… there are also people who appear to be […]
Plasq have recently announced the BETA release of a Windows port of their Comic Life software. The software is BETA and is potentially buggy but having said that it worked well for me straight after installation. I used a few available images from Second Life® drama classes to piece together an example of the output. […]
Dan Zellner in collaboration with the NMC is offering his drama workshops for a special Aussie and NZ friendly time zone. A few of us have already signed on to participate and there are probably a few places left. The commitment is 5 weeks on Sunday 8PM SLT – that’s 9AM Monday in Perth (Singapore […]