2015 TKR: EDU: Mind change

Mind change

Leading neuroscientist Susan Greenfield considers the vast range of technologies that are creating a new environment around us, and asks: how can we ensure these powerful forces bring out the best in us, and allow us to lead more meaningful, more creative lives?

• Watch on YouTube

Related

• Use your head! They always tell you that. They never tell you how

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News and Notes

• Bay city celebrates 7th anniversery,  May 17th, 12:30 p.m. SLT/PDT
• What Dreams May Come. SL12B Applications open till May 18
• Scroll down for News, Notes, and Info
• Scripters, G+ community:  OpenSim Scripters
• Hypergrid education community: Finding instruction on offer
• OpenSimWorld: HyperGrid Destinations Directory  
• Calendars: Entertainment in the virtual worlds
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• More news in my blog roll (column on the right)

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News and Notes

Events 

Hypergrid

• Calendars: Entertainment in the virtual worlds
• Events on the Hypergrid. Selected Google calendars
• 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

• Firestorm Features
• Events on the Hypergrid. Selected Google calendars
• Calendars: Entertainment in the 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

• VWBPE15 Conference, Summary, current and years past
• Take great online courses from the world's best universities
• 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 

• Travelling with Firestorm. Local, nearby, ingrid, Hypergrid, summary

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Video-Machinima in virtual worlds

• Machinima: Virtual World Filmmaking
• 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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• What do we do in Virtual Worlds? 
• Opensim, Hypergrid: Summary
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• What is Second Life?
• Annotated screen shots made with Jing
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• This blog is not affiliated with Second Life or anything else. 
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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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