2014 ART: WRITE: VIDEO: Cookie II (Kitely) is an Arcadia Asylum Site

Cookie II is an Arcadia Asylum Site-

A familiar sign

Cookie II -- A project of New Media Arts, Inc--Presents

• Arcadia Asylum Art  
• Arcadia's product guarantee: It is free or you don't pay 
• Objects should be free to copy.  If not, tell Selby Evans or Ada Radius. 
• Displays of video projects (in progress
• Travel info: posters, landmarks, travel gates.  (in progress) 
• Events, Kitely and Opensim, calendar posts and posters about events.
• Twitter streams (related to virtual worlds)

Cookie II is

• Free to everyone.
• Hypergrid:  grid.kitely.com:8002:Cookie II:/128/128/25
• On Firestorm Paste the hypergrid address into the address bar or
• Paste the hypergrid address into your world map, search, teleport
• The size of four traditional sims in a square (512 m. X 512 m.).
• A living production.  Like you and me, it is never finished while it still lives.
• Named after a long-running sim in Second Life with similar objectives.
• Cookie II web page

• On Kitely, use: hop://osgrid.kitely.com:8002/Cookie II/233/276/26
• To use a hop in Firestorm, paste it into the address bar, press enter.
• To get a hop in Firestorm, click in the address bar.  
• Hops may work in other viewers; in any case, use the name and coordinates.

Google+ communities 

• Arcadia Asylum Recovery Community
• Arcadia Asylum All Around

2014 HOBBY: PROMO: SLAN Product Review: Grumman Tracker

SL Aviation Network product review:  

Grumman S2 Tracker.
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The Grumman S-2 Tracker (previously S2F prior to 1962) was the first purpose-built, single airframe anti-submarine warfare (ASW) aircraft to enter service with the U.S. Navy. Designed and initially built by Grumman, the Tracker was of conventional design with twin engines, a high wing and tricycle undercarriage.

• Watch on YouTube

2014 EDU: 3D Leadership training and the associated research project

3D Leadership training and 
the associated research project
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Leadership training in 3D

• No teacher-trainer
• A guide and facilitator
• Start with generalized (abstract) statement (like PowerPoint).
• Use group discussion to get concrete examples that fit the learners.
• Guide mixes in with the group (you can do that in 3D). 
• No one stands in front telling learners what to think.
• They practice thinking for themselves.
• As they will have to do on the job.
• Successful proof of concept pilot test with 12 learners
• How to start in a virtual world, the video

2014 EDU: Univ. of Delaware NATIONAL AGENDA 2014 Speaker Series Begins September 10

University of Delaware NATIONAL AGENDA 2014  
Speaker Series Begins September 10
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University of Delaware Center for Political Communication                                              

National Agenda 2014 focuses on the battle for control of congress midway through the Obama second term, with some of the biggest and most experienced names in American politics. We span the transition from an earlier era of political strategy to the age when social media can make or break a candidate.

National Agenda website

These events are live simulcasts of guest speaker talks and interviews taking place on the UD Campus in Newark Delaware USA.

They are moderated by Ralph Begleiter, Director, Center for Political Communication and former CNN World News Correspondent.

Questions will be taken from the Second Life audience. 

National Agenda is Presented by

• Institute for Global Studies,
• Department of Communication,
• Department of Political Science & International Relations
• Center for Political Communication
• Moderated by Ralph Begleiter, Director, Center for Political Communication

2014 HEAD: PEOPLE: The Great Disruption: Unleashing the Power to Create

The Great Disruption: Unleashing the Power to Create

We are living in creative times. New technologies combined with an unstoppable desire for self-determination has unleashed a wave of new ideas and practices in a huge diversity of areas.The RSA is now placing this unleashing of the Power to Create at the heart of its mission. 

• Watch on YouTube

Published on Jul 23, 2014

Watch a panel of senior staff from the RSA's Action and Research Centre (ARC) explore how we can harness the Power to Create for public good and economic growth and what we can do to respond positively to the great disruption it is already generating for jobs, businesses, the public sector and wider society.

Speakers: Adam Lent, director of ARC, RSA; Anthony Painter, director of institutional reform, ARC, RSA; Rowan Conway, director of Connected Communities, RSA; and Sophie Thomas, co-director of design, RSA.

2014 NEW: VIDEO: How to start in a virtual world, the video: Now see it on your browser

How to start in a virtual world, the video:  
Now see it on your browser.   
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You don't have to go into a virtual world to get the basics.  Here they are on YouTube.  (For virtual worlds like Second Life and OpenSim.)
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• Watch on YouTube

Think of this video as a visitor's handbook on "Get ready for your first hour in the Virtual Villages."  

Starter plans for exploring the virtual village

Here are several ways people start exploring virtual worlds.  Choose one that fits you. Don't expect to find a game.  Expect to find new worlds to explore.  Worlds built out of someone's imagination.  Maybe someday you will build a world out of your imagination.  

2014 EDU: MA Education in Virtual Worlds, UWE, University of West England

MA Education in Virtual Worlds

We [UWE] successfully launched our distance learning MA in Education in Virtual Worlds in September 2012. The course offers highly flexible opportunities for study as it takes place in Second Life.

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• MA Education, about the course
• Programme structure
• MA program, overview

• Second Life Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen: 
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Innovation%20at%20UWE/127/226/27

• Masters qualification from a British University can lead to a PhD path.
• UWE knows this is a new century:
• UWE Bristol (University of the West of England) on Google+ 
• learners from all over the world. 
• smart use of space -- small area in high cost Second Life

Storymakers 2014 challenge: cash prizes: Contest open: August 26 - September 26, 2014

Storymakers 2014 challenge: cash prizes
Contest open: August 26 - September 26, 2014
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Submit a story in any of the following formats

• a two minute video;
• a short-form Vine or Instagram video; or
• a five-picture Flickr slideshow
• Win up to $5,000 in cash prizes
• total cash giveaway of $13,000!

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The Storymakers campaign empowers nonprofits, libraries, and charities with the tools and training to tell their stories, get noticed, and make an impact. 

• Storymakers award categories

2014 ART: LEA2: M*A*S*H 4077, 1972-1983

LEA2:  M*A*S*H 4077, 1972-1983
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Linden Endowment for the arts.
You will land in a welcome house in the sky where you can read a short note about the sim and some facts about the show if you like, or leave your thoughts in the MASH guest book.  From there you can teleport to MASH and land where the patients come in. 
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• Welcome to M*A*S*H 4077
• M*A*S*H = Mobile army surgical hospital
• M*A*S*H 4077, 1972-1983
• The build is expected to be up for several months
• A Tahiti Rae Build

• Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen: 
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA2/123/105/3601

2014 ART: UWA Art & Film Challenges with L$1.03 Mil in Prizes, early entries

UWA Art & Film Challenges 
with L$1.03 Mil in Prizes
Early entries
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MachinimUWA VI Film Challenge & 5th UWA Grand Art Challenge.   Entries Close at Midnight SLT 31st October 2014. 
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• Official announcement: Transcending borders

• MachinimUWA VII, Video Challenge
• 5th UWA Grand Art Challenge
• Prize pool of L$505,000 each. 
• Ttheme is 'TRANSCENDING BORDERS.' 
• Total prize pool: L$1,030,000 (approx USD $4,000), may increase

• See or deliver art work at this location.
• Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen: 
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/UWA/78/168/247