2013 EDU: VIDEO: GAMES: Gamification. ADHD-friendly

Gamification

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Watch on YouTube
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The concept of embarking on a quest-a journey of self-discovery - is a vital part of education. In this innovative approach to experiential learning, participants delve into, interact with, and co-create stories using the immersive tools inherent in Second Life and the groundbreaking Story Quest model developed by TVWSP: "The Life and Times and Uncle D."

Gamification; new term invented to describe the application of game mechanics such as points, badges, and levels to non-game processes.
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2013 EDU: VWBPE Thinkerer Studios welcomes you

Thinkerer Studios welcomes you to VWBPE
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Featuring projects promoted by Thinkerer Studios.
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Thinkerer Studios sponsor plot at VWBPE

You will look at the list and say. "ADHD!"   You are probably right.  But I haven't done any of these things by myself.  Creative Collaboration.  I just provide things like space, equipment, and promotion. Creative collaboration.
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Creative Collaboration. Not just a slogan anymore

2013 HOBBIES: Railway tracks around Heterocera, the atoll continent

Railways on the atoll continent
Updated 7/2/2015
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Almost circling the central lagoon
Click the picture to enlarge  it.
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Map provided by the VRC (Virtual Railway Consortium) 

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The atoll continent is well-served by railways. as you can see from the map above.

2013 PROMO: Promote your Second Life events inworld

How to promote events and places in SL 

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Goals:

• Distribute to many recipients 
• Recipient sees your promo promptly;
• Wants to remember the event at the right time
• Finds everything needed to go at the time it is needed.
• Finds everything needed to re-promote your event

2013 ART: VIDEO: The Egg. Life. Death. Meaning.

MachinimUWA III
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The Egg from Anima Technica on Vimeo.
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'The Egg', a philosophical exploration of the nature of the afterlife, god and human kind.
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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: CAUTION. Deeding land to a group

CAUTION. Deeding land to a group
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Vocabulary

• Parcel.  A virtual  lot or plot of ground. for land.
• About land panel: Information and controls about land
• Edit terrain:  Raise/lower land surface
• Subdivide land: Cut a parcel into smaller parcels
• Set to group:  Give members of a group powers on the parcel
• Deed to group: Transfer ownership of the parcel to the group.

2013 PROMO: WRITE: Promoting Events in SL: Blogs

Promoting Events in SL:  Blogs

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Blogs are good for promoting events in Second Life.  That is my opinion, anyway.   If you follow this blog, you will see that it announces and promotes selected events in Second Life.  

2013 VIDEO: COMEDY: Man vs. Second Life

Man vs. Second Life
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*Disclaimer: Adam does not receive any aid from his camera crew while filming on location. Only in the event of an extreme life or death situation will the production team intervene to give medical attention.*
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Watch on YouTube
If your are new to Second Life, you want to see this
If your are experienced in Second Life, you want to see this
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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 BIZ: Experts on the meaning of Second Life (virtual existentialism)

Maria Korolov, Mitch Wagner, Dusan Writer, Mitch Wagner, Botgirl, Wagner James Au
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Experts on the meaning of Second Life (virtual existentialism)
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Botgirl took the long view of debates about what Second Life is.
http://botgirl.blogspot.com/2010/12/problem-with-second-life-as-game.html
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As collaborators, she brought in the six wise men of Hindustan

• Six wise men of Hindustan
• To learning much inclined,
• Went to see the Elephant
• (Though all of them were blind),
• That each by observation
• Might satisfy his mind^[8]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant
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Each found and felt a different part and so reached different conclusions.  The elephant was like a snake, a rope, a tree-trunk, a wall, etc.
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Botgirl:
"Second Life is a game in the same way that Microsoft Word is a program for writing game articles. Yeah, it can be used that way, but Word is a document platform that supports anything one might want to write about. And Second Life is a 3D virtual environment platform that can and does support a multitude of uses. At this very moment people are using Second Life for a diverse variety of purposes such as 

• business meetings, 
• recreational shopping, 
• concerts, 
• digital sculpture, 
• sensual encounters
• gaming."

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Mitch Wagner (aka Copper Robot) posted this blog:
Why I hardly ever go on Second Life anymore
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"inconvenient"
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"takes time"
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And later moderated his comments:  Actually, I still like Second Life

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Wagner James Au (NWN) partly agreed.
"Besides hardcore gaming, it's difficult to think of other non-passive online leisure activities that a large group of adults will devote their undivided attention to for large swathes of time. (Say over a half hour or more.)"
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Dusan Writer commented:
" By being inconvenient, it puts us in a place where we log-in with intent – something that you don’t find with Twitter or Facebook."

http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2011/02/18/conventional-wisdom/

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Maria Korolov

http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2011/02/rod-humble-heres-how-second-life-can-rule-the-world/

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"the real killer content is Second Life is interactions with other people. We listen to live music. Attend book readings. Attend classes and meetings. Socialize in bars and nightclubs. The “content creators” of these events are people who show up and play music, read from their books."

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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 VIDEO: ART: Psychosomatic Rebuilding, a kind of ADHD video

Psychosomatic Rebuilding
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51LfCHYvyCQ
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 Olza Koenkamp:  "Psychosomatic Rebuilding" refers to a characteristic visual style whose main subjects are characters or creatures called psomms. They are portraits (mostly self portraits) of body-mind states and feelings. Psomms are flat graphics, drawings, stickers, objects, architecture projects, but also 3d avatars and objects in the virtual world of Second Life, where they could be used for acting in machinmas or as tools in art/sociology experiments.
Olza Koenkamp: it's sort of description to most of my things.
Olza Koenkamp: It's kind of ADHD video, isnt it?
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Website:  http://piotrkopik.com/
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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