2015 OPENSIM: Getting Started in Kitely: The free explorer plan

Getting Started in Kitely: The free explorer plan
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Kitely Welcome Center

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• Yes, free.   For explorers.   For land owners there are costs. 
• But explore first.  Start exploring on the web:  Explore worlds.
• If you are on the Hypergrid,  you can come directly to any of those worlds.
• Click on the picture.  On the world page that opens, get the Hypergrid address.
• In Firestorm, paste the Hypergrid address into the address bar.
• Or in any viewer, paste the Hypergrid address into the search bar of the world map. 

Or check the web

• Kitely Events Calendar.    Kitely Events and activities.
• Kitely Market.  The Kitely market can deliver anywhere on the Hypergrid.
• Opensim Virtual on Google+
• Kitely Virtual on Google+

If you are not on the Hypergrid

• Get a free Kitely account.  Ignore that free world you get.
• It won't stay free and exploring does not need land.
• Set up your viewer.  I use Firestorm.
• FIRESTORM: Logging on to Kitely or another grid.
• You will enter at the Kitely Welcome Center.
• Look for the Worlds Showcase.  That has places you can explore.
• Join the Kitely community group--and ask any questions you want.
• You can get an invitation by clicking on a sign that mentions it.

• Scroll dowJn for News and Notes
• THIS WEEK at Seanchai Library
• Lauren's channel 
• More news in my blog roll (column on the right)

Related articles

Background

• Kitely, Overview. A beginner's guide
• Kitely
• Kitely Market
• Kitely services 
• Kitely forums
• Kitely: Ilan Tochner, Co-Founder and CEO at Kitely, Part 1, Overview
• Kitely:  Ilan Tochner, Co-Founder and CEO at Kitely Part 2
• Kitely Worlds Showplace. Ilan Tochner, Part 3. "The Profound and the Profane"
• Why Kitely for blogs and video production? Kitely vs Inworldz vs Second Life

Education and training

• MNPS Virtual School: What is real and what is virtual?
• Undersea observatory. Pre-fab sim. Free. Displayed on Kitely.
• Educational resources for virtual worlds: Free. Universal Campus
• Social Skills Haven (Kitely), helping those on the autism spectrum
• Learn English Network Academy: Kitely, Second Life. Free
• RezMela in Kitely: Simulations for disaster response training!
• Urban Planning, London 2077 (Kitely). Virtual visions of the future

Content creation

• Why would content creators think about selling in the Kitely market?
• Kitely Market
• The Kitely Want Market. Don't find what you want? Ask. Creators: Check the wants
• Kitely market on the Hypergrid. Update

To see

• Seanchai in Kitely. Stories at the campfire created the first virtual worlds
• Urban Planning, London 2077 (Kitely). Virtual visions of the future
• New Orleans, French Quarter on Kitely
• City Life. Freebies: free retail, residential property
• Panthalassa on Kitely, by Kayaker Magic

Art and art preservation

• Cookie II (Kitely) is an Arcadia Asylum Site
• Kitely places. Vector's Vortex. Visual poetry
• Vector's Vortex. Visual poetry

New Media Arts 

• New Media Arts group opens in Kitely
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely
• Cookie II appears on Kitely
• Backup: Saving your video production set in Kitely
• AMP resources for video production in virtual worlds

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News and Notes

• Scroll down for News and Notes
• THIS WEEK at Seanchai Library
• Lauren's channel 
• More news in my blog roll (column on the right)

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Events 

• Happenings on the Hypergrid
• Kitely Events Calendar
• THIS WEEK at Seanchai Library

• Lauren's place, Tuesdays, 5 pm California time 
• Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen: 
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cookie/124/241/22
• Watch later: Lauren's channel  

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Newcomer Help in Virtual Worlds

• Blender Basics - Making Basic Mesh Prims
• Communities in Second Life: Community Cultural Hub
• Basic help for new arrivals in a virtual world at Georgia Gwinnett College
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/GGC%20Island/66/81/28
• How to start in a virtual world, the video: Now see it on your browser
• UWA offers free online courses to help newcomers start in virtual worlds
• Firestorm Documentation and User Guide (Wiki)
• Beginner's building on the Hypergrid. Primland, the building tutorial game
• New Citizens Inc
• Table of Contents (Virtual Outworlding)
• Multilingual help: Welcome ports and Google Translate

Education

• Education in Virtual Worlds. Summary
• Top 10 Tips on How to Use Avatars in eLearning
• How the Second Life basics series can help teachers
• SLeducate: Learn and teach in Second Life
• Learning Objectives Creator

Writers

• Greyville Writer's Colony

How to handle a Hypergrid address 

From any Hypergrid-enabled grid, paste the address into the address bar of Firestorm and press enter. Or paste it into the world map search bar of any viewer, search, and click Teleport when the destination is found. If it doesn't work, don't give up. Try again in couple of minutes.  Sometimes the first try fails (probably times out).  And try again a few hours later. Some hypergrid destinations are offline part of the day. 

• The ideal Hypergrid address form--almost there in Firestorm

If you get an address like this: 

 hg.francogrid.org:80:Residence-09:/119/128/190     

paste it into the address bar of Firestorm, see if it takes you to the exact coordinates. 

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Video-Machinima in virtual worlds

• New Media Arts, Inc
• SUMMARY: Resources for video production in virtual worlds
• 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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• For more on topics like this, circle Selby Evans in Google+ 
• What do we do in Virtual Worlds? 
• Kitely: low cost virtual worlds.
• Opensim, Hypergrid: Summary
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• Google search this blog: Search bar, upper left--or:
• Put site:virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com at the end of the search terms 
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• Annotated screen shots made with Jing
• All original content on this blog is Creative Commons License, attribution only. 
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• Feel free to send me an IM, notecard, or friend request in Second Life or Kitely
• Thinkerer Melville in Second Life, Selby Evans in Kitely
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