Second Life Educators in Alaska

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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?

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Added by Eric Hackathorn on October 20, 2009 at 1:56pm — No Comments

Cory Ondrejka, the co-creator of Second Life

Cory Ondrejka, the co-creator of Second Life, the award-winning virtual world that has transformed how millions of people think about community, collaboration, and entrepreneurship. http://budurl.com/secondlife1001 Continue

Added by Amy Domestico on October 1, 2009 at 9:46am — No Comments

What Julie is doing in SL...

This summer PWSCC bought 2 islands. One is a homestead to be used for the natural history of PWS. I have put in a lot of work on it. There are no buildings only plants, animals & natural features. I didn't get it done 'enough' to have my natural history students (Biol v104) work on it this year but will next year. However, I will be using their natural history notes from the blog they did as notecards for specific species. I just had my Biol V105 (majors biology) students work through the st… Continue

Added by Julie Fronzuto on September 26, 2009 at 12:31pm — 2 Comments

What Chip is doing in SL

This summer, 2009, I employed a talented and motivated high school senior to build an Aleut barabara in Second Life. I was interested in her learning curve for this activity and how much she might gain from the experience. I had her document the time she spent; time to learn Second Life from scratch, on her own, time to learn about barabaras, time to create the barabara, and how she felt she benefited from the experience.… Continue

Added by Chip McMillan on September 24, 2009 at 2:30pm — 2 Comments

Wondering About Clan House Builder

Who is Seleniris Pearl? I just saw the clan house out on Second Earth 8 and was blown away. Great job! Love the sea otters and spawning salmon too. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Second%20Earth%208/169/22/22/ Continue

Added by ChristenBouffard on September 2, 2009 at 4:25pm — 1 Comment

Open Sim

It is my understanding Open Sim has all the tools, minus the fees, and no barrier between teen and adult grids as in SL. There are shortcomings, of course, but real advantages to the Open Sim. Does anyone want to comment? And "Yes" to Wade's suggestion. Continue

Added by Chip McMillan on September 1, 2009 at 5:10pm — 3 Comments

summer break...what now?

Hello SLED-Alaska, I have been sort of away from SL for the summer, but with school starting again I would like to get back together and brainstorm what we as a group would like to accomplish. So if we could list what has been happening, and what we plan on doing, and what would be a good meeting schedule then we can see what the interest is, and what direction we can take. Continue

Added by Wade Roach on August 23, 2009 at 4:50pm — 1 Comment

Sharks After Dark: Anyone else swimming?

I am going to be swimming with the sharks in SL on Saturday at the PADI Dive World sim through Discovery Educator Network. Space is limited but there are still spaces available. Sign up on the wiki : http://sharksafterdark.wikispaces.com/ Hope to see you there. Ann Continue

Added by Ann Morgester on August 5, 2009 at 6:17pm — No Comments

New Dashboard

If you haven't seen it yet, there's a new dashboard in beta on the SL web site. It gives an easy to read overview of your account (https://secure-web2.secondlife.com/my)

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Added by ChristenBouffard on July 1, 2009 at 9:30am — No Comments

virtual field trip to a paper mill

paper mill simulation in SL slurl there was a session on this listed in the nmc conference schedule checked it out, neat idea, well done i like the question marks to give more detailed info virtual field trip video conference breakout descr… Continue

Added by Wade Roach on June 12, 2009 at 10:26am — No Comments

nmc summer conference

http://www.nmc.org/2009-summer-conference/view-schedule some of this has to be going on in-world i would think...anyone found anything? something that interested me the hakone project... http://www.nmc.org/conference-session-proposal/nebraska-project Continue

Added by Wade Roach on June 11, 2009 at 6:26pm — 1 Comment

NEXT VIRTUAL AK MEET 6:30PM MONDAY OR ANOTHER DAY?

I'm open to 6:30pm get together soon. Wade, when's good for you? ANYONE ELSE OUT THERE? MEET AT VIRTUAL ALASKA. Continue

Added by Sara Lee on June 4, 2009 at 11:23am — 6 Comments

SL turns 6 event

Hi all, if you've checked out the SL blog lately you will have seen two events coming up. SL turns 6 which features the theme "the future of virtual worlds" and the SL land conference. interesting predictions from ray I've read alot of kurzweil's stuff and it is interesting. any one else read his books? it seems that the land conference will discuss some best practices for… Continue

Added by Wade Roach on May 19, 2009 at 9:44pm — No Comments

Perms meeting on Virtual Ak Mon May 18, 2009

Seleniris, Talliver & I met on Virtual Alaska and started the initial steps for terraforming, based on Talliver's idea. We flattened everything then started etching the coastline in SE & SC, threw up a few mountains and built a prototype Denali. There is lots of work to do and we hope more people will join us for the next meeting, or terraforming party next Monday. Continue

Added by Julie Fronzuto on May 18, 2009 at 10:28pm — No Comments

Virtual AK whos doing what

I am starting this blog for a clearer thread of who is doing what on creation of Virtual Alaska sim. Please add short postings on what your current projects and intentions so that we may all review over time, be alerted to new activities, and get directly with the people with whom we need to coordinate. Continue

Added by Sara Lee on May 11, 2009 at 8:51am — 10 Comments

giving Virtual Alaska some topography

II am still a newbie especially when it comes to topography. so can someone help give some direction on what we need to do to create some workable topography? Hack is right...the trail AK topo brought in doesn't work. So what next? Continue

Added by Sara Lee on May 4, 2009 at 7:53pm — 8 Comments

Meeting notes & a Call To Action

SLED-AK meeting 4/29/09 Attending: Hackshaven Harford, AK Auxiur (Chip McMillan), Jaece Zapatero, iconolith Taggart, Seleniris Pearl, Talliver Hartnell & Cleo Korda ( I apologize for not knowing FL names of all the avatars-maybe we should have a list somewhere on the ning with this info?) NOAA has graciously donated an island for the use of SLED-AK as noted in Hackshaven’s post on Virtual Alaska. This meeting focused on to determine how the land would be used. It was agreed that we should ha… Continue

Added by Julie Fronzuto on April 29, 2009 at 11:00pm — 13 Comments

Next meeting?

When is our next meeting? I'm thinking it should be soon. Lets try to arrange it at a time Eric can join us & we can focus on the land ideas.... Eric when are you available? Continue

Added by Julie Fronzuto on April 28, 2009 at 7:44pm — 1 Comment

ExitReality talk on ISTE island

ExitReality homepage I saw that the ISTE speaker is going to be talking about the 3dweb technology created by ExitReality. I was curious and can't make tonight's talk so I checked it out. It is pretty neat. I like the idea that any webpage can become an island, but I feel something is lacking. What is it that SL has that makes it feel so much more usable? Is it better navigation, better graphics, more intuitive view? I don't know what it is but every other 3d w… Continue

Added by Wade Roach on April 28, 2009 at 11:43am — No Comments

The Virtual Forbidden City

China's Forbidden City has been recreated as a virtual world in which you can explore and interact with others who are visiting as well. I couldn't believe how enormous was when I visited (virtually). I was a little disappointed that there weren't any people logged in when I visited. I guess you have to bring your own friends if you'd like to chat with someone. More info on the Virtual Forbidden City web site.… Continue

Added by ChristenBouffard on April 28, 2009 at 10:16am — 1 Comment

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