2013 ART: VIDEO: Playing with a tree - MachinimUWA

A Majestic Shade Tree created by Soror Nishi
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Watch on YouTube
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UWA Article

2013 PROMO: Groups for virtual worlds in Facebook

 Groups for virtual worlds in Facebook 
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• These are Facebook groups that I am in and post to when I have relevant content.  These groups indicate an interest in virtual worlds, but not specifically in Second Life.  
• The descriptions and member counts here are take directly from the descriptions and counts in Facebook.  
• This list is incomplete.  If you would like to add to it, post the link and the description in the comments below. 

2013 ART: VIDEO: Gamification 'Second Libations' Art as a game

Art as a game.  Or a game as art. You be the judge.
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Haveit Neox's 'Second Libations'
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Enter the pyramid

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2012 Kit: V3.2 Move button (walker)

 V3.2 Move button
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 V3.2 Move Window

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2013 1stHELP: Linden realms. Starting Second Life as a game.

"How do you play this game?"
An answer at last.  Along with just-in-time learning.
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Portal to Linden Realms

A call for help

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Many people come into Second Life expecting a game.  Actually, there are a lot of games.  The  Destination Guide lists about 37 in its Games section.  But now Linden Lab has developed a new game, specifically for new people. 
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Not just to entertain new people.  To create a learning environment for building the skills that are important for enjoying Second Life.
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Destinations
Linden Realms

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Tips

• Linden Realms Frequently Asked Questions
• You will want sound effects on. Preferences button (gears)
• You will want to know how to look around
• You don't really get killed -- you just get teleported to a resurrection  circle.

Skills to be developed
Move

• Double-click on the place you want to go (on the ground or on the map).
• Walk: press the up arrow key.   
• Run: Press Ctrl r.
• Turn: press the arrow key pointing in the turn direction
• Sit: Right click on  the object., select sit.  Note Stand up button 
• Map: Open, locate places, double click to go. Map button (folded paper)

Look around
You can look around without moving.  I call that "zoom and roam your camera."  Here's how:

• Put your cursor on what you want in the center of the picture.
• Press Alt and hold it down. The cursor will change to a rectangle with a plus sign in it. 
• Scroll back and forth with the mouse scroll wheel;
• Press each of the arrow keys you normally use to move;
• Press page up and page down.
• Learn from what happens when you make these moves
• Press Esc to return to normal camera view
• See See, Zoom, roam, and tag

Design goals (my guess)

• Beginner level
• Teach as well as play
• Incremental quests
• Play "at your pleasure"
• Play alone or with friends

Just-in-time learning and gamification
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Just-in-time instructional design: 

• Offer just what the learner needs to know, 
• just when the learner needs to know it.

The gamification maneuver:

• Use the game to create a need point for each learning objective.  
• Then you know when to supply the instruction.

Illustration:  the gamification maneuver in Linden Realms

• The quest is to collect crystals from a dangerous valley
• The "Look around" method (above) lets you search in safety.
•  JIT learning would mention "Look around" right at this point. 

Background: The gamification of learning

• Education: Gamification as Discipline for ...
• Media: Peatonville Mystery Hunt. Gamification
• Media: Games. Gamification. ADHD-friendly
• Edu: eXtension Just in Time Parenting  "..at the time it can be most useful ..."
• Just-in-Time Marketing  just what they want, when they want it. 

Just-in-Time Knowledge -- The World of the Web

• Don't just know. Understand.
• You can talk about what you have been taught. 
• You can do things with what you understand.

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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: V3.2 About land button (sign)

About land button
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About Land Window

General Tab

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You use the About Land Window to see and change the settings on a parcel of land.  The  About Land button will open this window for the parcel you are on.  Details on how to use this window are given below.

2013 ART: VIDEO: 'Art of the Artists' by Fuschia Nightfire

'Art of the Artists', by Fuschia Nightfire
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The idea for this machinima was to take some of the installations at UWA that were the most aesthetically appealing and to deconstruct them and reconstruct them into RL paintings, then to use the actual painting process in the machinima.

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2013 Help: V3.2 Build Button (hammer)

V3.2 Build Button
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V3.2 Build Window

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2013 ART: VIDEO: What reality is virtual?

Transformation: Virtual Art on the Brink

"The best virtual art is a new kind of new media, using the particular properties of the virtual world..."

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Transformation
A mixed reality film by
Lori Landay/L1Aura Loire
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http://uwainsl.blogspot.com/2011/11/machinimuwa-iv-l1aura-loires.html
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Machinima filmed at UWA Winthrop in Second Life

2013 1stHELP: Profiles. Yours and theirs

Profiles.  Yours and theirs 
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About me window

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The "real" profile page

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