OK, so I’ve spent time working out how all this Second Life stuff works. Just as I am about to launch into constructing the space that will accommodate my process drama Second Life upgrade their browser and I find my computer will not longer function with the SL software. I’ve made do until now with […]
I was quite surprised today when I was reading through the materials arriving from the Second Life Educators mailing list. Someone referred to Boal’s concept of “metaxis”… my stunned response follows… Yay!! See I told everyone drama was useful for something in the realm of technology.This phenomenon is discussed briefly in a recently released book. […]
I’ve recently been playing with an EmoterHUD – a device that allows me to animate the facial expressions of my avatar in Second Life – I believe this offers some very interesting possibilities for expression in role-playing scenarios as well as in regular SL interactions – the interface is still quite clunky to develop much […]
In response to some of the recent coverage of Second Life in the Australian press I posted this: I think there are some unresolved issues about what Second Life is. Interestingly, many gamers (such as Tim who commented earlier) find that SL does not match their vision of WoW… they find the controls and interface […]
SLATENIGHT reports on some interesting performance events happening in Second Life. Border Art Slate Magazine: Second Life Arts Total Entertainment – Monday, 22 January 2007 © Slate Magazine: Second Life Arts Total Entertainment Shakespeare Comes To Second LIfe Slate Magazine: Second Life Arts Total Entertainment – Monday, 22 January 2007 © Slate Magazine: Second Life […]
Well, having solved some of my bandwidth issues (now I have 60Gb monthly limit!) I have been able to better use my time in Second Life and really started to establish a presence. SL is a real bandwidth slurper. Like many newbies I wandered aimlessly around the SL world seeing what I could see, and […]
Thanks to an entry at Jean Burgess’s creativity/machine I found my way to Museumr. I’m not sure of the potential at the moment beyond ‘vernacular’ pleasure and artistic expression. But it is vaguely subversive and as Jean comments its a bit like “sneaking into the master’s house”. I generated several images in my first few […]
  OK – finally have my little parcel of land upon which to develop the basics for part of the Interdisciplinary Practice unit I’m teaching at university this year and to accommodate some of my explorations for my research. You can find it over at Maceday 121,143, 152. It looks a bit like a […]
http://simteach.com/simteach12_06.pdf Jeremy Kemp at SimTeach has published an interesting overview “The Who, Where, When and How of Second Life as a Teaching Tool in 2006” Well worth tracking and perhaps a very useful starting point for anyone consodering venturing into Second Life.
Well, it seems I’ve attracted the attention of some folk in the USA who are also interested in online teaching/learning and, hurrah, drama! Tom, aka ArthurConan Doyle, has an entry over at the CATE Life blog. (http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/7321876) We’ve started talking about some possibilities of running a high school drama project on the Teen Grid at […]