Monday, July 25, 2016

2016 EDU: History Month in August on the virtual world of Kitely. Autodocent on call

History Month in August on the virtual world of Kitely.  
Autodocent on call
In preparation for August History month on Kitely, Ravyn Stormchyld, has set up an autodocent system that will give you a spoken narration about an item when you get near it.  You wear a hud provided by Rayvn to trigger the narration.  The audio is prepared from a notecard by a text-to-speech engine supported by code that breaks the audio files into 9 second clips to conform to the limit established by SL.
Dunguaire Castle
Click the gate to open it

Go there

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  • (More after the break)
  • Where is Arcadia?
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Metaverse events, current and upcoming

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A docent location
  • Hop to docent (If you have the hud)
  • In Kitely: put the hop in the Firestorm nav (top) bar, enter
  • hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Risa IV/138/948/39
  • Dunguaire Castle (Wikipedia)
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Kitely History Month 

Residents of Kitely are organizing History Month for the month of August. The event is designed to highlight the many historic builds in Kitely and to encourage more of them. At the History Month Hub, visitors will receive a HUD and landmarks to allow them to visit the history-related worlds around the grid.
  • The Hub may not be open till Aug. 1, but the HG address is:
  • grid.kitely.com:8002:History Month Hub
  • In Kitely, put History Month Hub in the Find bar of the world map, click Find, TP
  • History Month main page

Time Periods

History month will focus on a different historic era each week in August:
  • Week 1: Big bang to Greeks & Romans
  • Week 2: Medieval 500-1500
  • Week 3: 1600-1700
  • Week 4: 1800 to 1914

Events

The irrepressible Freda Frostbite is organizing a series of events to correspond with each week's theme. This list is subject to change. When you go to a region looking for an event, remember that, in Kitely, you can open the map and look for the green dots showing people.
  • Music Events Thus Far Scheduled:
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  • 8/07 -- 9 AM Grid Time, Ghaelen Dlareh Speaks About Sacred Music: Late Ancient to High Medieval (Cookie II)
  • 8/14 -- 12 Noon Grid Time, Kitely History Fest: Wald Schridde, LIVE MUSIC (History Month World)
  • 8/28 -- 9 AM Grid Time, Bach to Tchaikiovsky, Masters of the Baroque to Classical Periods In Short Forms. Freda Frostbite, presenting. (Cookie II)

All grid times are California time, as in SL

  • Literary Events Thus Far Scheduled:
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  • 8/5 -- 1:00 PM Grid Time, Historical Flash Fiction Writing Workshop, (History Month World)
  • 8/07 -- 10:30 AM Grid Time, Ravyn Reads From Canterbury Tales (RISA IV)
  • 8/07 -- 12:00 PM Grid Time, Several Millenia of Poetry In Under An Hour (Looking for a location. Could be at Babble Arts Center but would rather have at a historical site)
  • 8/12 -- 1:00 PM Grid Time, Writing Poetry In Historical Forms (History Month World)
  • 8/14 -- 10:30 AM Grid Time, Joan of Arc in Literature and Drama (DeLandria Rising)
  • 8/19 -- 1:00 PM Grid Time, Historical Flash Fiction Writing Workshop, (History Month World)
  • 8/21 -- 10:30 AM Grid Time, French Historical Poetry (Kingdom of Florin) Fanny Burney presents. 
  • 8/21 -- 12:00 Noon Grid Time, Babble Bookers will discuss Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell (Babble Cafe and Book shop)
  • 8/ 26 -- 1:00 PM Grid Time, Writing Poetry In Historical Forms (History Month World)

Dances

  • All Tuesdays in August -- 1:00 PM Grid Time Dances (RISA IV)
  • All Thursdays in August -- 1:00 PM Grid Time Historically Themed Dance Parties (at The History Month World)

The Grand Ball

The Grand Ball will be held August 28 at 11:00 AM Grid Time at The Kingdom of Florin. Dress for any historical period, though the sim is 18th century France. The musical stream and dances will be appropriate to the period. We believe there will be historical costumes available on site that day for any who wish to dress for the occasion.

Related

History (G+community)

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News and Notes

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    The Hypergrid WIP Show

    The Hypergrid WIP is a one hour "show & tell" of works in progress or recently completed. All builders from beginner to pro are invited.  Presentations are in voice and text.  For text presentations, best bring the text in a notecard and paste it into chat.  Voice presentations may be captured in video.  Stills and videos from the show may appear in this blog and elsewhere.

    Next WIP show 

    • Next WIP show: Sun. July 24, Noon SLT 
    • Cookie II location (fourth Sunday of the month)
    • HG address below: paste into the World Map next to Find. Click Find, TP
    • grid.kitely.com:8002:Cookie II 
    • in Kitely: paste into Nav (top) bar of Firestorm, Enter.
    • hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Cookie II/68/369/22
    • Narasnook  location (second Sunday of the month)
    • Pandora allows presenters to run high threat OSSL functions.
    • world.narasnook.com:8900
    • Put the line above in your World Map next to Find.  Click Find. TP
    • At Narasnook, use World Map to search for Pandora
    • Cookie II location (fourth Sunday of the month)
    • HG address below: paste into the World Map next to Find. Click Find, TP
    • grid.kitely.com:8002:Cookie II 
    • in Kitely: paste into Nav (top) bar of Firestorm, Enter.
    • hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Cookie II/68/369/22

      Previous Articles from the WIP show 


      HG links-- depending on your interests 

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      Schools in virtual worlds

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