2013 EDU: eXtension Just in Time Parenting

 eXtension Just in Time Parenting
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"eXtension Just in Time Parenting (JITP), is an outreach innovation that brings quality, research-based information to families at the time it can be most useful ..."
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Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Morrill3/220/68/24
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 Click image to enlarge

JiT Parenting display 

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2013 VIDEO: ART: Off the Wall

Rachel Breaker's wacky sim
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OspreyTherian on Nov 19, 2010
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Watch on YouTube

2013 MUSIC: VIDEO: Trix

Musical video
by lovetothelyrics
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Watch on YouTube
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2013 HOBBIES: VRC Ferry service at Heterocera Channel

VRC Ferry service at Heterocera Channel
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VRC Ferry docking at Tuliptree station

The VRC Ferry service is provided by the Virtual Railway Consortium   This group also organizes the rail way activities in Second Life:

• Railway tracks around Heterocera, the atoll continent
• VRC Grand Tour

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The ferry dock pictured here is in easy walking distance of the SLRR Railway station (visible in the background).
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Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Tuliptree/206/153/23 
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The southern part of Heterocera, the atoll continent, is lowland and water passages.  The sea channel to the central lagoon passes through this area.  The VRC has established a railway circling the land portion, but the southern area requires this ferry to complete the circuit.
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Click the sign for the current location of the ferry

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You will get an notice of the current location of the Ferry, with a link that you can click to teleport to that location.
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Objects talk in green
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You can board the ferry while it is travelling, but if you are new in Second Life, that will challenge your flight skills.

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To catch the ferry in transit:

• Fly--or you will wind up under water
• Click the sign and click on the teleport offer
• Look around when you get there-- the ferry may be a ways off
• Fly close to the ferry near water level
• Click the ferry-- it will stop for 10 seconds.
• Fly as close as you can to the ferry
• Right click a seat and select sit.

To ride the ferry, sit on one of the boxes

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Move, Teleport, Travel, Fly. Sit (July Update)
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The other main stop for the ferry is Bhaga

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Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bhaga/115/24/22
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Intermediate stop at Hyles Infohub

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Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Hyles/40/31/22
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On the farm
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Industrial shipping

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A pleasure island

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Easter Island?

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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 APPLICATION: The Kansas To Cairo Project Part #2

Stech: The Kansas To Cairo Project Part #2
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Architecture, Urban design

Watch on YouTube
More on this project:
Documentary Captures the Potential of Architectural Education and Collaboration in a Virtual Environment
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Students from Cairo and Los Angeles used the virtual world of Second Life to design a 70 acre site situated between the Grand Egyptian Museum and the Pyramids of Giza.

2013 MUSIC: VIDEO: Duran Duran Pirate Party, pros at work

Duran Duran shows promotion by pros
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So if you have something to promote, you might want to watch what they do.  Maybe you could learn something.  Maybe you could think of better ideas.
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Watch on YouTube
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Slurl: Click to go to the Duran Duran Sim
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Azizi/164/180/122

2013 EDU: LiveAbility Home at the eXtension fair

 LiveAbility Home at the Virtual State Fair
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LiveAbility Home

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"Welcome to the LiveAbility Home, a project of the Cooperative Extension Family Caregiving Community of Practice."
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Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Morrill/40/197/24

2013 ART: LEA FULL SIM ART SERIES

Linden Endowment for the Arts (LEA).
Full Sim Art Series
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Welcome to fabulous Ant Vegas

UWA Full Sim Art Series

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See a report on Ant Vegas here.
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The University of Western Australia  (UWA) is a leader in art and machinima in Second Life.  And Jayjay Zifanwe is a leader in this leadership.  One of the initiatives of UWA was the UWA Full Sim Art Series, which is closing this month.  That is really not bad news, because there is good news along with it.
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The full announcement by Jayjay Zifanwe is here:
http://lindenarts.blogspot.com/2011/08/lea-full-sim-art-series-come-to-life.html
See this announcement for details of what the artist gets and how to apply.

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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 1stHELP: Language of the Virtual Village

Language of the Virtual Village
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Some details here are specific to viewers of the 3.x class and may differ in other viewers.
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Vocabulary

•  :), :(  Emoticons: ,    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons
• AFK: Away From Keyboard. Tell people that you are not available to communicate
• Alt: an alternative, secondary identity.
• Asset:   Generic name for an object, texture, script, or other item in you inventory. See below
• B4N:    Bye for now
• BFN:    Bye for now
• BTW:   By the way
• Chat, local: Typed communication among people nearby.
• Click, Click on:  Like clicking on a web link
• CU:   See you
• CYA:   See ya
• Defriend:  Remove a person from your friends list. See below
• Double-Click move: Optional feature to move you automatically to a place you can see.
• Drag :  Put cursor on the item in inventory. Press/hold left mouse key. Move cursor See below
• FAQ:  Frequently-ask question(s)
• FPS:   Frames per Second . Ctrl-Shift-1 to open/close Stats. Viewer FPS, top right
• Friend (verb): To invite a person to be on your friends (contacts) list.  See below
• FYI:   For Your Information
• Home, Home point: A safe location that the system remembers for you.  See below
• HUD, Heads up display: Special object you wear that creates a display on your viewer screen.  The display may have click points to let you control it.  
• Inventory:  Collection of things you own. See below
• Inworld:  the virtual world
• IM:   Instant message, text communication with one or more people.
• Left mouse key (for Mac users):  The single mouse key.
• Link:  As with the web, a button that will open a web page, or something in Second Life.  See below
• LM:  Landmark: a thing that tells the system to take you to a specified place.
• Move Double-Click: Optional feature for instant move to a place you double-click on. See below
• Notecard:  File carrying text and (possibly) embedded assets.  See below
• NP:   No problem
• Object:   A prim or several prims linked together.  See below
• OMG:   Oh my God
• Outworld, RL:  the physical world
• Perms:  Permissions. See below
• Prim:  basic building unit. See below
• Relog:  sign off SL, then sign on again. See below
• Rez:   To produce a virtual object from an object in your inventory. See below
• Sim:  To residents, a square 250 m. on a side.  See below
• Slurl:  Like a landmark, but ordinary text that SL can convert to a landmark.  See below
• Take: Move an object you own from the virtual world to your inventory. See below
• Take Copy:  Create a copy of an object in your inventory. See below
• Toggle:   turn something off, them back on (derived from toggle switch) See below
• Touch:   Click on.
• TP:  Teleport. Move quickly to another place you choose.

2013 SEE: Hobo Island Builds, August

What do people build in Second Life?
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One of the benefits of hanging out at a sandbox is that you get to see the work of expert builders. Here are some samples I saw as they were being built.
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Hobo%20Island/202/32/22
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The color and designs can change

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Scripting makes active displays.