2013 SEE: Burn2 opens Saturday, Oct 1.

Burn2, officially recognized regional Burning Man event, 
opens to the public on October 1st.

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"BURN2 is an extension of the Burning Man festival and community into the world of Second Life. It is an officially sanctioned Burning Man regional event, and the only virtual world event out of more than 100 real world Regional groups."

2013 ART: VIDEO: MachinimUWA III: 'Time Journey'

New challenge deadline nears

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L1Aura Loire/Lori Landay's 'Time Journey'
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Watch on YouTube
She was determined to find the key to the perfect film, even if meant a risky journey on a dodgy Timeboard to surf the waves of time!
http://uwainsl.blogspot.com/2011/05/machinimuwa-iii-l1aura-loirelori.html
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New Challange

Video alert: UWA: Art of the Artists - L$230,000 

MachinimUWA IV Prize Pool Rises to L$300,000: Thanks to CEC & OTE
Submissions open through 10th NOVEMBER 2011

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Submissions List

All submissions are listed and linked here.

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Video alert! 3rd UWA Machinima Challenge - 2011

 Art meets video in the virtual village  
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Art

• Art done in virtual worlds Summary
• Linden Endowment for the Arts

     
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Video-Machinima

• Videos from virtual worlds Summary 
• Hobbies: Doing video/machinima in virtual worlds
• Music Videos from virtual worlds Summary 
• Art videos from the virtual world
• Comedy videos from the Virtual World

      

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• What do we do in Virtual Worlds? 
• Search on page with Google Chrome: Ctrl+f, search bar upper right 
• Google search this blog, column on right
• or put site:virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com at the end of the search terms
• What is Second Life?
• Annotated screen shots made with Jing
• Creative Commons License, attribution only.
• Second Life, Linden, SLurl, and SL are trademarks of Linden Research Inc.
• This blog is not affiliated with Second Life or anything else.  
• Ads are  from Google

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• Drop by my place in Second life
• Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen:
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cookie/136/100/22
• Feel free to send me an IM, notecard, or friend request.
• Thinkerer Melville/Selby Evans

  

2013 HELP: Sim crossing, problems and solutions

Sim crossing, problems and solutions

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Sim Crossing

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Sim crossings are a big problem, especially to people using scripted vehicles.  I am starting a post series on solutions that people propose or are using to moderate the problem.

2013 HELP: Music and video, hear and see

What you need to know to hear/see audio and video  
For Second Life Viewer 3.3 and above   
Click image to enlarge

Preferences, Sound and Media Tab

2013 EDU: Games: Play Doctor

Games: Virtual medical doctor
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Virtual Medical Doctor  In this interactive game from MadPea Productions, you'll be miniaturized so that you can enter the human body, take samples and perform surgery. To save your patient's life, you'll need to perform tasks requiring increasing levels of skill as you race against time.
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Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Tupol%20Island/127/125/73
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2013 2ndHELP: Second Life: Basic or Premium?

Second Life : Basic or Premium? 

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Newcomers often ask me whether they should get a premium account.  Here is what I tell them:  You have a basic membership when you come in, so the choice is whether to upgrade or not.  Here are some questions to ask yourself.

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1. Do you expect that you can afford the payments now and in the future? 

• Yes: go to question 2.
• No: Not sure.  Wait.  

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2. Do you want to own land?

• No:  Go to question 3.
• Yes. Do you want land on the mainland?*

• Yes:  Sign up here: Second Life promotional page.
• No: Go to question 3.
• I don't know:  Go to question 3.

*You can't "own" land on the mainland unless you have a premium account.  You can "own" land on a private island or estate without having a premium account.

• Land and houses 
• CAUTION. You can't buy to own

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3. Do you want to learn how to build things?*

• Yes: You may want a premium account. 
• No: You probably don't need a premium account
• I don't know 

*A premium account gets you access to reserved sandboxes. 

• Premium reserved sandboxes
• Content Creation: Build, script, video, classes, tools, collaborate

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5. Do you really want a Linden home?
Here is the sales pitch for Linden Homes:
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Here are some details:
Linden Home Overview
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If you want a Linden Home, you can sign up here:
Second Life promotional page for premium membership
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6 Are any of these reasons attractive? 

• Bonus of  1000 Lindens (abour $4.00 USD)  45 days after you sign in.
• Weekly stipend of 300 lindens.  (About $5  per month, USD)
• "Access to Second Life experts"
• Access to premium sandboxes (fewer people, less lag, less griefing)
• Gift packages and access to special Linden builds

The payments are partial rebates.  If you want Lindens, you will come out with more if you buy Lindens with the money you would spend on the premium account.
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I have no direct experience with "Access to Second Life experts."  I have plenty of friends who are Second Life experts.  Experienced residents I have heard from on the matter do not consider the service valuable.  If you need help from second life experts, I  suggest you start in one of the following places:

• Answers
• Knowledge base

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• What do we do in Virtual Worlds? 
• Search on page with Google Chrome: Ctrl+f, search bar upper right 
• Google search this blog, column on right
• or put site:virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com at the end of the search terms
• What is Second Life?
• Annotated screen shots made with Jing
• Creative Commons License, attribution only.
• Second Life, Linden, SLurl, and SL are trademarks of Linden Research Inc.
• This blog is not affiliated with Second Life or anything else.  
• Ads are  from Google

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• Drop by my place in Second life
• Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen:
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cookie/136/100/22
• Feel free to send me an IM, notecard, or friend request.
• Thinkerer Melville/Selby Evans

  

2013 STECH: Cape Able for people with impaired hearing

Deaf.  Hearing impaired?  Cape Able is for you.
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Click image to enlarge

 Cape Able travel board

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Cape Able is  geared towards the needs of  deaf and hard of hearing SL residents, and all other disabilities.  

2013 MUSIC: VIDEO: Music and video by Pep Lemmon

Music and video by Pep Lemmon
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Watch on YouTube

This machinima was filmed in several well known locations in the virtual world of Second Life.

In the second half of the video I played a little bit with some tweaks that you can find in the advanced menu in Phoenix viewer. Thanks to all the amazing builders and sim creators that make possible filming in such wonderful locations.  
- Pep Lemmon

Video-Machinima

• Videos from virtual worlds Summary 
• Hobbies: Doing video/machinima in virtual worlds
• Music Videos from virtual worlds Summary 
• Art videos from the virtual world
• Comedy videos from the Virtual World

      

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• What do we do in Virtual Worlds? 
• Search on page with Google Chrome: Ctrl+f, search bar upper right 
• Google search this blog, column on right
• or put site:virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com at the end of the search terms
• What is Second Life?
• Annotated screen shots made with Jing
• Creative Commons License, attribution only.
• Second Life, Linden, SLurl, and SL are trademarks of Linden Research Inc.
• This blog is not affiliated with Second Life or anything else.  
• Ads are  from Google

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• Drop by my place in Second life
• Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen:
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cookie/136/100/22
• Feel free to send me an IM, notecard, or friend request.
• Thinkerer Melville/Selby Evans

  

2013 1stHELP: Sex in Second Life. Get to Adult places.

Sex in Second Life 
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Sex as explained by Second Life

• Maturity ratings in Second Life
• Adult content in Second Life 

Age restrictions

• You must be over 18 to access places designated "Adult."  
• Your age is determined by the birth-date you gave when you registered.   

Change preferences and search options

• You have to opt in to see adult content: 
• Me (top left) --Preferences --General tab--
• Set button "I want access to content rated" General, Moderate, Adult
• In search panel: How do I find: friends, places, events in SL? 2012
• Set maturity (upper left) to included adult 

Find places (You may have to change settings in search )

• http://secondlife.com/destinations/adult
• http://secondlife.com/destinations/
• http://secondlife.com/destinations/roleplay/fantasy
• http://secondlife.com/destinations/beaches
• http://secondlife.com/destinations/gay

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• V3.2 Search button (magnifying glass) (Ctrl + f)
• Type in sex, or whatever more specific term interests you

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• What do we do in Virtual Worlds? 
• Search on page with Google Chrome: Ctrl+f, search bar upper right 
• Google search this blog, column on right
• or put site:virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com at the end of the search terms
• What is Second Life?
• Annotated screen shots made with Jing
• Creative Commons License, attribution only.
• Second Life, Linden, SLurl, and SL are trademarks of Linden Research Inc.
• This blog is not affiliated with Second Life or anything else.  
• Ads are  from Google

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• Drop by my place in Second life
• Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen:
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cookie/136/100/22
• Feel free to send me an IM, notecard, or friend request.
• Thinkerer Melville/Selby Evans

  

2013 ART: UWA September exhibition

UWA September exhibition

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You really have to be there

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2013 MUSIC: VIDEO: Duran Duran Sinner or Saint Party

What do we do in Second Life?
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Here are a couple of answers
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Duran Duran Universe in Second Life
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Slurl:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Azizi/164/180/122
Drag the SLurl onto your viewer.  New viewers will open a teleport window for you

2013 EDU: Walk through to learn--museum on your desk

Museum on your desk.  The Japanese Beetle
Up close and personal.
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Another report from the Virtual State Fair
Stech: eXtension Virtual State Fair
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Exhibit by 
PennState College of Agricultural Sciences
Penn State Extension
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Location link.  Click to go.  Or drag/drop the link onto the viewer screen.
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Morrill/106/200/24
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Through the video screen

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A walk among the grubs

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The button turns on a talking docent 

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Growth, times and stages

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You emerge with the beetles

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The development cycle by seasons

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Methods of control

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The buttons tell you about how they are used and how effective they are.
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End of story

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Will it be the end of the beetles?
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Other Virtual State Fair exhibits

• LiveAbility Home at the eXtension fair
• eXtension Just in Time Parenting

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I don't think this exhibit does anything an ordinary museum exhibit could't do.  Except to make house calls. 

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Video-Machinima

• Videos from virtual worlds Summary 
• Hobbies: Doing video/machinima in virtual worlds
• Music Videos from virtual worlds Summary 
• Art videos from the virtual world
• Comedy videos from the Virtual World

      

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• What do we do in Virtual Worlds? 
• Search on page with Google Chrome: Ctrl+f, search bar upper right 
• Google search this blog, column on right
• or put site:virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com at the end of the search terms
• What is Second Life?
• Annotated screen shots made with Jing
• Creative Commons License, attribution only.
• Second Life, Linden, SLurl, and SL are trademarks of Linden Research Inc.
• This blog is not affiliated with Second Life or anything else.  
• Ads are  from Google

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• Drop by my place in Second life
• Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen:
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cookie/136/100/22
• Feel free to send me an IM, notecard, or friend request.
• Thinkerer Melville/Selby Evans

  

2013 1stHELP: Quick tricks for things you do often

Quick tricks for things you do often

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I have posted instructions on all of these things before.  But I have found them so useful that I am bringing them together so I can point people to a single page with the whole lot.
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These instructions and screen shots apply to Second Life standard Viewer 3.   The instructions  probably apply also to other viewers of level 2 or 3, but not necessarily the screen shots. 
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Teleport (favorites) Bar
Click Image to enlarge

One-click links on the teleport bar

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The teleport bar works much like the favorites bar in your browser. You put landmarks in it. The landmarks are always there. No searching your inventory. One click does the trick.  Just as with a web link.
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How do you put landmarks in the favorites bar?  Just drag the landmark from your inventory to the bar. To rearrange the items, click-hold on the item you want to move and drag it either way along the bar. Best if you drag it one step at a time.
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Choose your Login point
Those links on the teleport bar can also be available to you when you sign in.  Turn on this option this way: 

• Me (top left)
• Preferences
• Advanced  
• Show Grid selection at login

Grid selection turn-on

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Pick destination on the login screen

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Autopilot and double-click move

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Click on image to enlarge.

Preferences, Move & View Window

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To open this window:
Me (top left)-- Preferences-- Move & View
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Two options here:

• Double-click Move: Moves you automatically to a place you can click on.
• ClickNWalk:  Walk your avatar to a place by a single-click on the place.

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• What do we do in Virtual Worlds? 
• Search on page with Google Chrome: Ctrl+f, search bar upper right 
• Google search this blog, column on right
• or put site:virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com at the end of the search terms
• What is Second Life?
• Annotated screen shots made with Jing
• Creative Commons License, attribution only.
• Second Life, Linden, SLurl, and SL are trademarks of Linden Research Inc.
• This blog is not affiliated with Second Life or anything else.  
• Ads are  from Google

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• Drop by my place in Second life
• Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen:
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cookie/136/100/22
• Feel free to send me an IM, notecard, or friend request.
• Thinkerer Melville/Selby Evans