2015 HELP: EDU: Hypergrid Academy announces its first classes

Hypergrid Academy announces its first classes
Updated 1/13/2015
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Hypergrid Academy schedule board

Hypergrid Academy

• Website
• Locate on the web 
• Google community
• Hypergrid address:  Paste into the address bar of Firestorm 
• Or into find bar of the world map on any viewer
• grid.kitely.com:8002:Hypergrid Academy
• In Kitely, with Firestorm, use the Firestorm Hop
• hop://osgrid.kitely.com:8002/Hypergrid Academy/173/129/22
• Inworld group: Hypergrid Academy
• Hypergrid Academy is looking for more teachers
• Classes can be held anywhere on the hypergrid
• Contact Roswenthe-Blackwell on Kitely grid

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• Scroll down for News and Notes
• More news in my blog roll (column on the right)

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Virtual Learning Series Jan/Feb Classes

In Kitely, with Firestorm, use the Firestorm Hop
hop://osgrid.kitely.com:8002/Hypergrid Academy/173/129/22

HG: Paste HG address into World map, use TP

grid.kitely.com:8002:Hypergrid Academy 

Don't forget! Creating and Managing NPCs, lead by Nara M, will be on Sunday, January 18th from 12 - 2pm Pacific/SL time.  

Location:  Use hypergate from Hypergrid Academy

January 15 1:00pm  Virtual Learning Series - Navigating the Hypergrid

Come get some tips on jumping around in the hypergrid, along with some resources on where to find locations to visit.

January 22 1:00pm  Creating Communities in Virtual Worlds

A Virtual Learning Series open discussion on community creation in virtual worlds.

January 29 1:00pm  Photoshop Clothing Creation

A Virtual Learning Series class on basic clothing creation in Photoshop. Free shirt and sock templates will be included.

February 5  1:00pm  Introduction to Roleplaying

An introduction to basic roleplaying skills and character creation in virtual worlds.

February 12 1:00pm  Education Roundtable

A roundtable panel on education in virtual worlds. Guest panelists!

Seminar:  Non-Playing Character (NPC) creation

• Times: Jan.18, noon slt, March 15, noon, slt
• Teacher: Nara Malone
• Use hypergate from Hypergrid Academy
• Hypergrid address for academy: Paste into the address bar of Firestorm: 
• Or into find bar of the world map on any viewer
• grid.kitely.com:8002:Hypergrid Academy
• In Kitely, with Firestorm, use the Firestorm Hop
• hop://osgrid.kitely.com:8002/Hypergrid Academy/173/129/22
• Paste in the Firestorm address bar 
• Class location: Nara's Nook grid  
• NPCs (Non-Player Characters): for video/stage productions. AMP notes

Virtual Learning Series by Roswenthe-Blackwell

• Thursdays at 4pm Pacific time starting Jan 15th
• A series of basic topics (details TBA):
• basic building
• how to use the hypergrid
• Photoshop 
• clothing creation
• roleplaying
• sim/region management
• etc.
• At the Kitely campus 
• grid.kitely.com:8002:Hypergrid Academy

Backstory

• Kitely academy. Let's think Hypergrid
• Hypergrid University: a preliminary model

News and Notes

Events 

Tentative January schedule at Wizards Retreat (Kitely)

• TBA - Monday, January 12th & 26th - 5 & 6PM PST
• Frederico Botelho aka "Bohemian" - Tuesday, January 13th & 27th 12PM PST
• Ciske Crumb - Tuesday, January 13 & 27th 1PM PST
• Echo Starship - Thursday Jan. 15th 12PM
• DeceptionsDigital - TBD
• Morlita Quan - Monday Jan 26th 1PM PST
• SingerGirl - TBD
• Effinjay - Saturday Jan 31st at 12PM PST
• HG address: grid.kitely.com:8002:Thyilea   
• Web address: http://www.kitely.com/virtual-world/Roxy-Gellar/Thyilea
• Firestorm Hop:  hop://osgrid.kitely.com:8002/Thyilea/59/386/24  

Hypergrid

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

Lauren's Place

• 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 
• What is Second Life?
• Annotated screen shots made with Jing
• All original content on this blog is Creative Commons License, attribution only. 
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• Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen: 
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Lawst%20Paradise/147/61/23 
• 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
• Google+ page;  Virtual World Video
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