2013 GAMES: Gamification of Second Life?

Gamification of Second Life?
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Fish Hunt game draws people
Click image to enlarge

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2013 EDU: .10/17-19 Professional development on your desk

Oct.17-19  Professional development on your desk
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NeVC2011: 

Outstanding Professional Development! 

Free! Avoid Travel Hassles!

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By firery.broome  

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 Virtual State Fairgrounds

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Location Link.  Click to go.  Or drag the link to the viewer screen
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Morrill/129/8/25

• No registration! 
• No fees! 
• No airline hassles! 
• No per diems to worry about! 
• No weird kids kicking the back of your seat! 
• No airport parking nightmares! 

October 17, 18, & 19 National eXtension Virtual Conference!!!

2013 SEE: DarkDharma Haunted Manor

Happy Haunting
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Another example of art that you walk around in.  Being there.  In the midst of the art.  
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In celebration of Halloween.  Dark Dharma is one of the most popular haunting places in Second Life.  And, I understand, one that does not go away after Halloween.
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Dark Dharma Haunted Manor 

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2013 HELP: Commnication: MySL, Private messages, offline

MySL, Private messages, offline 
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MySL = my.secondlife.com     
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MySL is a web based social networking site integrated into Second Life.  The feature lets you send private messages (much like inworld IMs) to people in Second Life. 

2013 VIDEO: COMEDY: Flufee and mesh in the land of the prims

Flufee on a Meshion - Episode1: Primland
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[***a new era has begun in machinima: Mesh import is changing the most versatile world on the planet aka Second Life. We decided to provide a bit of comedy honoring this big step in SL-evolution***]
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2013 See: Through the Lens of Dreams

Through the Lens of Dreams
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"Through the Lens of Dreams" - Exhibit Opening at Art Screamers
Madcow Cosmos and  Lorin Tone
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 What parts of education stimulate imagination?

2013 PROMO: How does your venue look in a thumbnail?

And why would you care? Promotion

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Which of these small pictures catches your attention? Why?

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Click on any picture to enlarge it.
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You don't care

• If you are not interested in promoting your venue.  
• If you only want to promote your venue in group notices and instant messages.

You do care:

• If you want to reach people that don't already know about your venue.
• If you want to reach people who are not (yet) in Second Life.
• If you want a little help from the bloggers.

What's important about thumbnails?

• A thumbnail is what people see in the social media.
• If a thumbnail gets attention, the big one will too.
• If you think about thumbnails, you brain will go on to bigger things

Bloggers?

• Promoting Events in SL: Blogs
• Show your venue to the outside world
• Pictures get readers
• Media: Facebook and twitter for promoting...
• Thumbnails show on Facebook and Google+ 

As a blogger, I care
Those little pictures at the top--I use them regularly in connection with some venue I am writing about.   When I write about a venue, I always look for a lead shot.  That is the shot that will go near the top of the blog and appear as a thumbnail when I post a link In Facebook and Google+.
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Sometimes I wish the venue owners would think about the lead picture. That's the one to be used in publicity materials, put at the top of a web page, given out in press releases.    Here are some things I like to see in a lead picture:

• Big thing contrasting with the background (for the thumbnail).
• Prominent sign with venue name.
• A crowd, or at least some people.
• Something happening.

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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 ART: Video: Better One, Better Two. Bleu Oleander

Better One, Better Two.
Machinima by Bleu Oleander

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"We bring our own meaning, scripting, to works of art ... even those works of art we think are "non-scripted." We're running "scripts" in our minds from our past experiences that act like lenses through which we see and find meaning in art."

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Better One Better Two
Machinima by Bleu Oleander 

September 2011

• Video alert: UWA: Art of the Artists - L$230,000
• MachinimUWA IV Prize Pool Rises to L$300,000:
• Submissions open through 10th NOVEMBER 2011

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 BIZ: Powerpoint. Effective slides for presentations

Effective Slides 
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Planning Effective Slides for Presentations
Gentle Heron -- Virtual Ability, Inc.

2013 MUSIC: VIDEO: Duran Duran Space Ship Party

Duran Duran Space Ship Party
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Slurl to Duran Duran Universe
http://secondlife.com/destinations/duranduran
Drag-n-drop a slurl to the viewer screen, get a landmark panel (newer viewers).

• Duran Duran Sinner or Saint Party
• Duran Duran Pirate Party, pros at work
• What do we do in Second LIfe?

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