2014 PEOPLE: PROMO: Expo place at OpenSimulator Community Conference 2014

Expo place at 

OpenSimulator Community Conference 2014
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I have a Silver Sponsorsip on OpenSimulator Community Conference 2014.  I get a large display booth in the Expo Region roughly corresponding to a single region, minus areas reserved for a conference landing zone and common sidewalk areas. 

• Exact Square Meters:   48,896 sqm
• Prim Limit:  11,192
• It is sponsored by my blog, Virtual Outworlding
• I am looking for content about the things I might cover in my blog.

Main themes I cover in Virtual Outworlding

• Performing arts
• Writing, all forms
• Social media/remote collaboration
• Education in virtual worlds
• Art: Three-D builds and digital paintings
• Art videos and videos of art  
• Business  in virtual worlds
• Comedy and comedy videos  
• Events in virtual worlds
• Helpful articles for beginners and others 
• Hobbies in virtual worlds
• Music in virtual worlds  
• Music videos from virtual worlds
• Promote things or events in virtual worlds
• Sights in virtual worlds.

2014 NEW2: Beginer's building on the Hypergrid. Primland, the building tutorial game, Part 2

Beginer's building on the Hypergrid, Part 2.
Primland, the building tutorial game.
Discovery learning.
Updated 11/7/2015
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• Get started in Opensim: Stage 2B(uilding).
• Start building in Opensim.
• Sample of gamification in instructing/onboarding in Opensim.
• Examples of Discovery Learning.
• Beginner's building on the Hypergrid. Primland, the building game.  Part 1

Need to know before you start

• Walk: Press the arrow keys, see what happens
• Fly:  Press and hold page up. 
• Zoom and roam the camera:  Press and hold Alt, press and hold left mouse key, move mouse or scroll wheel.   
• Go to an address on the Hypergrid (see below).

Go there now Hypergrid addresses, choose one:

Copy-paste into your world map's search bar, click Find, click Teleport when it lights up 

• grid.avacon.org:8002:Primland

2014 EDU: OPENSIM: MNPS Virtual School: What is real and what is virtual?

MNPS Virtual School: What is real and what is virtual?
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Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) offers students the opportunity to take one or more online high school v-courses while enrolled at their zoned schools or to enroll on a full-time basis with Virtual School and earn their high school diploma completely online. 

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Map of the experimental school

in Kitely

• The learning is real 
• So it readies the learner for the next step
• The skills are real
• So they ready the learner for work.
• The instructors are real
•  So they can meet with students at mutually convenient times
• The classes are virtual
• So they come where and when the learner needs them 
• The building is virtual 
• So its cost is barely real
• The travel is virtual
• So it really takes only seconds

Experimental Space in Kitely

• If you have a Kitely account, open this page
• MNPS Virtual School on Kitely
• Open you viewer, but wait to log in
• Click on "Enter World" in the MNPS page

• If you are logged in to Kitely, paste this hop in the Firestorm address bar, press enter
• hop://osgrid.kitely.com:8002/MNPS Virtual School I/132/128/23

• Hypergrid address: Paste into world map, click Find, Click Teleport when it lights up 
• grid.kitely.com:8002:MNPS Virtual School I

• Real-world public virtual school on the web : MNPS Virtual School 

2014 VIDEO: PEOPLE: New Media Arts group opens in Kitely

NMA arts group opens in Kitely
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New Media Arts (NMA) supports  

• Writing (especially for stage and screen)
• Stage production in virtual worlds
• Video production in virtual worlds
• Antique patterns as art on the web
• New art from new media

New Media Arts in Kitely: Get notices of events, meetings, projects. 

To join the inworld Kitely group, search in groups for New Media Arts.  Open the profile page, click on the Join button. There is no cost to join.  If you are visiting via the Hypergrid, you should be able to join the group when you are on Kitely.  You may get group notices on the Hypergrid (we hope). 

You will get notices of

• Events sponsored by New Media Arts and affiliated groups
• Meetings to organize, plan, and promote events fitting the objectives of NMA
• Projects that call for volunteer or paid services
• Tutorial publications about selected aspects of stage and video production

2014 MUSIC: VIDEO: OPENSIM: Dancing NPCs (Non Player Characters). And a Hypergrid warning

Dancing NPCs (Non Player Characters)
 And a Hypergrid warning
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The High Side of the Low Life, by TrueLie Telling
Truelie Telling is a  regular performer at The Maritime Club in Virtual Belfast
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• Watch on YouTube

NPC Bots

• All the actors featured are scripted NPC ( Non Player Character ) bots
• How to get NPC maker
• The NPC maker in the article above will duplicate the avatar that clicks on it
• and will animate the clone with an animation in the maker's contents.

The NPC Maker uses the function: osNpcCreate.  This function is marked as high threat and appears to have some undocumented limitations on who can use it in a particular sim.  It seems that use is limited to the sim owner and some others with high level authority in the owning group or in the sim.
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Read more for Hypergrid warning

2014 WRITE: PROMO: Seanchai in Kitely. Stories at the campfire created the first virtual worlds

Seanchai in Kitely. 
Stories at the campfire created the first virtual worlds
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• Watch on YouTube

• Blog article
• From the web, click here: Seanchai in Kitely
• FIRESTORM: Logging on to Kitely or another grid  
• In Kitely, paste the line below in the address bar of Firestorm, press return
• hop://osgrid.kitely.com:8002/Seanchai/149/129/29
• On Hypergrid, paste the line below into the find bar of the world map, click Find, click Teleport when it lights up.
• grid.kitely.com:8002:Seanchai

2014 ART: VIDEO: The Drax Files: World Makers: interior design magazine in the digital universe

The Drax Files: World Makers: 
interior design magazine in the digital universe
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"Second Life helped me discover what I am good at and what I would like to pursue" says 23-year old Edi Clarity, who runs a successful interior design magazine in the digital universe: "I am not a creator, but I create spaces that hopefully inspire people!"

• Watch on YouTube

Edi also met his husband, who hails from Chicago, in SL in 2009 and the two have been together ever since.  The power and agency over identity and the possibility to reveal the true self at one's own pace contributed - according to Edi - to a stable relationship that has been lasting this many years.

Adds Edi: "SL taught be that I can be who I really am, no matter what!"

No doubt, that he [and Rico] can be proud of who they are, in-world or in physical reality.

• Love To Decorate - The Magazine

Related

• Gardens and homes. The decorator story
• Would you sell a house this way? Madison Home

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News and Notes

Events in the virtual worlds  

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Contests and dated calls/invitations

The Journal of Virtual Studies currently has a call for papers open.  The journal is peer reviewed and focuses on the use of virtual spaces for knowledge immersion.  Do you work or research in Second Life,  OpenSim or any other virtual platform?  Have you been engaged in research, exploration or reflection when using MMPORG’s?  Have you discovered a virtual space with knowledge immersion possibilities or have you engaged in a fascinating new way to explore the virtual through any number of immersive online applications?    

These and many other questions are explored by the JoVS.  The Fall 2014 issue is expected to publish in September.  For details, see here: Journal of Virtual Studies 

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• RezMela in Kitely: Simulations for disaster response training, and contests!
• Deadline: Sunday August 31st 2014, 11 pm EDT
• Photography Contest: prizes: $50, $30, $20
• Machinima Contest:  prizes: $250, $110, $40

• Transcending Borders: Launch of UWA Art & Film Challenges with L$1.03 Mil in Prizes

The theme is 'TRANSCENDING BORDERS.' Artists & filmmakers can interpret the theme as they see fit. Whether transcending borders between time and space, past and present, one nation and another, one language and another, a culture or civilisation or any other of the innumerable borders that present themselves as we navigate our lives. You the artist... You the machinimatographer...You decide.

Entries Close at Midnight SLT 31st October 2014. Winner will be announced in December 2014.   First entries 

News, new TOS, Google and pseudonyms

• Presentation on new TOS at SL Bar Association 8/2/2014
• Second Life TOS (probably) relinquishes its claims on your creations. Finally!
• CG Textures still say no
• Crap Mariner on the Second Life ToS Controversy

• Google+ becomes friendly to virtual names and pseudonyms 

Events 

• PARADISE LOST RETURNS FOR A SECOND SEASON: TICKETS ON SALE NOW
• Happenings on the Hypergrid
• Kitely Events Calendar

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Newcomer Help in Virtual Worlds. 

• New to Kitely? New to Opensim? Start at the U
• Beginner's building on the Hypergrid. Primland, the building tutorial game
• UWA offers free online courses to help newcomers start in virtual worlds
• New Citizens Inc
• Table of Contents (Virtual Outworlding)
• Multilingual help: Welcome ports and Google Translate

Education

• How the Second Life basics series can help teachers
• SLeducate: Learn and teach in Second Life

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Video-Machinima in virtual worlds

• 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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• For more on topics like this, circle Selby Evans in Google+ 
• What do we do in Virtual Worlds? 
• Kitely: low cost virtual worlds.
• Opensim, Hypergrid: Summary
• Search on page with Google Chrome: Ctrl+f, search bar upper right.
• Google search this blog: Search bar, upper left--or:
• Put site:virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com at the end of the search terms 
• What is Second Life?
• Annotated screen shots made with Jing
• All original content on this blog is 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 the Hobo Helpers 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 in Second LIfe or Kitely
• Thinkerer Melville in Second Life, Selby Evans in Kitely
• Google+ page;  Virtual World Video
• Lauren is funny;   Avatar  Repertory Theater

2014 TKR: Brain Games, Brain Sprints

Brain Sprints
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When you have a spare 5 minutes, try a brain sprint.

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Develop your upper brain flexibility. 

• Maybe you will want to try them.
• Maybe you will want your friends to try them and tell you whether they work. 
• Maybe you will challenge your friends to a brain sprint.
• Maybe use that challenge as a conversation bit at lunch
• You may not want your competitors to know about them. 
• But maybe they are already using them

2014 WRITE: The writing communities of virtual worlds: Nara's Nook

The writing communities of virtual worlds:  
Nara's Nook
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The overall goal is to build community across the borders of our hypergrid worlds while we are building stories to entertain the citizens of the metaverse
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Nara's Nook entry point

• Hypergrid address: world.narasnook.com:8900:Greyville
• Paste into the search bar of your world map, click find, click teleport 
• NARA'S NOOK
• How to visit the Greyville colony

2014 ART: LEA26 Pinwheel Tilings by Mac Kanashimi, a fractal installation art

LEA26  Pinwheel Tilings by Mac Kanashimi:

A fractal installation art

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Pinwheels by Mac Kanashimi, 2014, August 1 - December 31
A fractal art exhibition at LEA: Linden Endowment for the Arts

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• Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen: 
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA26/122/5/2969
• Ziki Questi's Blog
• Installation art

Pinwheel tilings are non-periodic tilings defined by Charles Radin and based on a construction due to John Conway. They are the first known non-periodic tilings to each have the property that their tiles appear in infinitely many orientations.

• 4 pinwheels tile the plane
• each pinwheel is divided into 3125 triangles