The Second Life island of Godot is finally taking shape and the development is underway. Along with Kim Pasternak getting some better hair – the difficulties we had recently with inventory not appearing – or worse, disappearing – seem to be over. The island is shaping up to be a small seaside community, not disimilar […]
As advised recently, I took delivery of my shiny new Second Life island called Godot. My initial excitement started to give way to the pragmatics of getting Godot into a state where it can serve my research needs. Reading about island development in other forums could leave you believing you need a hefty bankroll and […]
Well, I awoke this morning knowing I had a meeting inworld with Larissa Dmytryk. I had a chance to check my inbox first and discovered the good news from Linden Lab that my island (Godot) has been delivered. This is the first image from the mini map – it doesn’t appear yet on the main […]
If you are after a few little hints about using Second Life in Real Life education then this set of collector cards from Global Kids might be just what you are looking for. http://www.flickr.com/photos/holymeatballs/sets/72157601198270790/show Will try to work out the embed soon.
Jokay Wollongong announces another big Second Life event. http://www.nswlearnscope.com/go-virtual-07 Go Virtual 07! is set to be an exciting day of sharing and exploring this cutting edge domain – with participants invited to engage in both presentations and hands-on workshops in both Second Life and Adobe Connect during the event. Don’t forget to pack your laptop!! […]
I gave my presentation here on Saturday morning – immediately after Lindy McKeown’s keynote. Between the two presentations we had several overlaps – not surprising considering the similarity of our work in Second Life. Online Sites for Generative Play This paper proposes an alternative concept for thinking about engagement in online environments as a form […]
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 […]
This is the slideshow used in the workshop I ran in Hong Kong during IDEA2007. If for some reason it isn’t showing below (IE7 seems to be particularly fussy lately) then you can find it here – http://www.slideshare.net/kimbowa/dramatargy