Second Life Educators in Alaska
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Eric Hackathorn
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- Boulder, Colorado
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I heard a rumor that you folks were working in OpenSim. We at NOAA also have an OpenSim grid up and running and have transferred some of the content we developed for Alaska into that environment. Anyone interested in playing?
SLED-Alaska Fall, 2009 Meeting at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Second%20Earth%208/169/22/22/
September 30, 2009 from 9pm to 9:30pm
Meeting in front of Seleniris Pearl's beautiful Tlingit Clan House to share what we are all up to in Second Life.
So this is 11 PM my time?
Must be the land of the midnight sun...
I see chip proposed a meeting tonight at 9 PM after his ball. Gosh that's only 11 PM my time. I love how virtual worlds mean there are no time zones anymore. I'm going to try to be there tonight, but perhaps something a touch earlier in the day?
I am hopeful people just haven't RSVPed for this? Chip invited 60....
As always, Eric, I just hope I can do this partnership justice.
Wow, very nice video. Those glacier scenes, beautiful.
A reprint from Scilands:
Fish for Alaska King Crab, climb to the top of Mt. McKinley, traverse a glacier, survive a winter Bering Sea storm - all of these are possibilities in the coming world of Virtual Alaska. To start, there is a recreation of D…
Is there any interest in consolidating all these cool Alaskan regions into one massive AK community? Studies show it helps boost traffic, ROI, and Chip could potentially find someone to fix his hair.
Alaska Studies Masquerade Ball at Alaska Sandbox Thetis
April 29, 2009 from 7pm to 10pm
I have invited 60 students from my UAS Alaska Studies classes to convene at the NOAA Virtual Alaska Sandbox:
http://www.scilands.org/alaska/training.php
or
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Thetis/226/164/53
between 7:00 - 10:00 p.m. Wednesday, April 29…
I was hoping to see more posts about the virtual AK space and what AKSledders want to do with it....but no time like present, and instead of waiting I'll through in some thoughts. 1) I'd like there to be a SL meeting with good representation (so not…
nice sunset!
Awesome!
...and Chip, it is not reasonable for you to create the UAS presence in SL yourself. Community, community, community! :-)
Ha! It's moments like this where you don't want to forget your training. ;-)
Check out the "appearance" topic in SL101 on http://classroom.scilands.org/ However, in the meantime right click on yourself, go to appearances, and then focus on your head…
Comment Wall (3 comments)
- At 4:42pm on February 23, 2009,
Chip McMillan said…
- Oh yea, oh yea! Incredible textures and I love the hand refraction photo. Way to go!
- At 4:37pm on February 23, 2009,
Chip McMillan said…
- Oh yea, oh yea! Those are great! Your hand refraction photo is incredible. Way to go on that one. I'll get mine up tonight.
- At 10:07am on February 23, 2009,
Chip McMillan said…
- Thanks so much for coming up to see us in Juneau, Eric. Great things will come of this. I sure hope you and your wife can come back for an actual vacation.
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- Eric Hackathorn started with his first computer before he learned to ride a bicycle. His father was kind enough to allocate him 100 KB of the family’s 10 MB hard drive: one of the first commercially available of its kind. Since that time, he has spent a majority of his time dabbling in all things computer related. After graduating from high school, he started working for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Boulder, Colorado. At the same time, he attended and then graduated from the University of Colorado majoring in electrical and computer engineering. He continues his work at NOAA today as a program manager.
Eric has taken a back seat to his much handsomer counterpart Hackshaven Harford. Hackshaven is Eric’s avatar (a virtual representation of himself) and exists only in the virtual world known as Second Life. Together they have been busy designing a public 3-D space to highlight the research NOAA performs. In addition, they recently formed a company "Maya Realities" to explore 3-D virtual world metrics. In essence, helping to gauge the return on investment for companies creating beach heads in virtual worlds such as Second Life.
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- National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
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- Hackshaven Harford
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- http://classroom.scilands.org/
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- http://hackshaven.myopenid.com/
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- http://hackshaven.com/
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- http://www.flickr.com/photos/hackshaven/
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- http://delicious.com/hackshaven
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OpenSim
I heard a rumor that you folks were working in OpenSim. We at NOAA also have an OpenSim grid up and running and have transferred some of the content we developed for Alaska into that environment. Anyone interested in playing?
Posted on October 20, 2009 at 1:56pm —
Virtual Alaska
A reprint from Scilands:
Fish for Alaska King Crab, climb to the top of Mt. McKinley, traverse a glacier, survive a winter Bering Sea storm - all of these are possibilities in the coming world of Virtual Alaska. To start, there is a recreation of Dutch Harbor. Here visitors can can learn more about this area of the world and the role the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or NOAA plays. In this immersive envi… Continue
Fish for Alaska King Crab, climb to the top of Mt. McKinley, traverse a glacier, survive a winter Bering Sea storm - all of these are possibilities in the coming world of Virtual Alaska. To start, there is a recreation of Dutch Harbor. Here visitors can can learn more about this area of the world and the role the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or NOAA plays. In this immersive envi… Continue
Posted on April 27, 2009 at 11:00am — 2 Comments
Virtual Alaska Land Expansion
Just thought I'd send everyone a quick note letting folks know that we've set aside an additional region for Virtual Alaska just to the west of Thetis. What would people like to see there? How should we foster community and manage the content?… Continue
Posted on April 6, 2009 at 11:01am — 2 Comments
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