2015 EDU: Virtual epidemiology investigation, Stephen Gasior on REDgrid

Virtual epidemiology investigation
Stephen Gasior on REDgrid

A recreation in a virtual world of a world-famous investigation.  The battle of the theories, the collection of data, the emergence of scientific investigation, the credibility of evidence, the beginning of discoveries that made big cities possible.

• HG address: Paste the line below into the world map, next to Find.  Click Find, TP
• redgrid.bsu.edu:9000:VirtualSnow 

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Genre-Jailhouse Poetry Short Poetry Workshop-Tue 9/1, 7pm SLT - 

This week at the Short Poetry Workshop Arabella Nemeth is guest host as she presents the Genre-Scared Straight-Jailhouse Poetry. We’ll focus on expanding our poetry with the emotions, language and lingo.

• Location Link. Click to go or drag to the Viewer screen: 
• http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cookie/160/134/21/ 

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• Burn2: Carnival of Mirrors, Oct. 18­-25, 2015 Get your plot now!
• Burn2 Website
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid, a G+ community
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• HG WIP Show Sun. Sept 6, 20
• PURSUE IMPOSSIBLE: UWA 3D Art & Film Challenges 2015,
• SciFi Film FestivalSummer of Arts submissions open on Metropolis
• Scroll down for News, Notes, and Info

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2015 COMEDY: VIDEO: PEOPLE: At Lauren's place: Life's Best Quotes

At Lauren's place: Life's Best Quotes

Thinkerer (Selby Evans) delivers comedy lines from the internet.

• Watch on YouTube

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• Burn2: Carnival of Mirrors, Oct. 18­-25, 2015 Get your plot now!
• Burn2 Website
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid, a G+ community
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• HG WIP Show Sun. Sept 6, 20
• PURSUE IMPOSSIBLE: UWA 3D Art & Film Challenges 2015,
• SciFi Film FestivalSummer of Arts submissions open on Metropolis
• Scroll down for News, Notes, and Info

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2015 TKR: Knowledge is Beautiful

Knowledge is Beautiful 

Data journalist, designer and founder of the blog sensation 'Information is Beautiful' (http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/) David McCandless visited the RSA to demonstrate how visualized information can help us comprehend, navigate and find meaning in a complex world.

• Watch on YouTube

• Information is beautiful: 30 examples of creative infography
• Ideas, issues, knowledge, data — visualized!

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• Burn2: Carnival of Mirrors, Oct. 18­-25, 2015 Get your plot now!
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid, a G+ community
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• HG WIP Show Sun. Sept 6, 20
• PURSUE IMPOSSIBLE: UWA 3D Art & Film Challenges 2015,
• SciFi Film FestivalSummer of Arts submissions open on Metropolis
• Scroll down for News, Notes, and Info
• Burn2 Website 

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2015 WRITE: The Whitechapel atrocities, investigation continues. Timeline violation or fiction?

The Whitechapel atrocities, investigation continues. 

Timeline violation or fiction?

A story from history.  With no ending from history.  Some of the scene rendered here. More to show.  A call for detectives.  Interactive fiction, storybuilding Of interest to writers, historians, journalism teachers, educators, and mystery fans. 

Click image to enlarge

Go there

• In Kitely put the line below in the Nav bar of Firestorm, enter
• hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Whitechapel/128/128/22
• A dark place of dark deeds. Whitechapel, 1888.
• Did you like Myst?
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• Kitely web page:
• https://www.kitely.com/virtual-world/Geoff-Quinnell/Whitechapel
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• HG address: Put the line below in your world map, next to Find.  Click Find, TP
• grid.kitely.com:8002:Whitechapel
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• To enjoy Whitechapel fully, please use the region default environment setting

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• Burn2: Carnival of Mirrors, Oct. 18­-25, 2015 Get your plot now!
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid, a G+ community
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• HG WIP Show Sun. Sept 6, 20
• PURSUE IMPOSSIBLE: UWA 3D Art & Film Challenges 2015,
• SciFi Film FestivalSummer of Arts submissions open on Metropolis
• Scroll down for News, Notes, and Info
• Burn2 Website 

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2016 MULTIMEDIA: ART: The art of multimedia in the metaverse

The art of multimedia in the metaverse
Updated 9/7/2016

Virtual worlds are made by people, and for people.  With a little skill, you can make the world you want to show. You control the sounds, the sights, the colors, the movements, the whole environment.  If you can make music, you can also make the visuals.  Just as Disney could do in Fantasia, but without the cost.    Multimedia art in the metaverse is the art of putting these things together to create  a new art in the new medium of virtual worlds.

 Torben Asp, Second Life, July 2013 

• Watch on YouTube

2015 PEOPLE: EDU: Learning for life. Learning for living.

Learning for life.  Learning for living

Life-long learning.  No legal requirement.  And when you are retired, you get paid for staying alive.  You don't have to know anything.  But if you get comfortable with not learning anything new, maybe you won't know anything but the past.  But you may not be comfortable with just the past.  That is called curiosity.  Here are some ways to treat it.  

Empty?

• I am much too old to be doing this!
• Keeping active — physically, mentally and socially — 
• may ... help reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease.-- Mayo Clinic

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• Housebound is not home alone--voluntarily housebound in virtual worlds

Voluntarily housebound?  Yes.  By choice.  Oh, I walk outside on occasion, when the weather is nice.  And I go out once in a while for medical attention.  And I chat from time to time with the people in old folks home where I live.    Most of my friends are online in the virtual worlds where I also live.  They are younger.

• The Ageless Mind Project is the Gateway to an Exciting Future
• ASU launches free college course program with paid option for credit
• Use your head! They always tell you that. They never tell you how
• Learn Anything Using the World's Best Resources

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GeoPoetry Short Poetry Workshop-Tue 8/25, 7pm SLT - 

This week at the Short Poetry Workshop we’re doing GeoPoem which is a short poem based on a geographic location anywhere in the world, specified by latitude and longitude coordinates ("lat-long"). A GeoPoem has two stanzas of 6 lines. The digits in the lat-long determine the count for each line. So join us at the Short Poetry Library as we travel the world through poetry.

• Location Link. Click to go or drag to the Viewer screen: 
• http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cookie/160/134/21/ 

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• Burn2: Carnival of Mirrors, Oct. 18­-25, 2015 Get your plot now!
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid, a G+ community
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• HG WIP Show Sun. Sept 6, 20
• PURSUE IMPOSSIBLE: UWA 3D Art & Film Challenges 2015,
• SciFi Film FestivalSummer of Arts submissions open on Metropolis
• Scroll down for News, Notes, and Info
• Burn2 Website 

2015 EDU: PEOPLE: Living in the New Digital Learning Age

Living in the New Digital Learning Age

Are you a confident creator?  Are you among the held back?   Are you a safety firster?  It matters for your future.  Think how things were in 2001.  Have you handled any changes?  Did you cope with them?  Did you master and use them?  Will there be any changes in the next 15 years?  How will you deal with them?   

• Watch on YouTube

The new digital learning age has three main groups who experience technological change in different ways: the confident creators, the held back and the safety firsters. Anthony Painter, Director of Policy and Strategy at the RSA, discusses the attributes of each group and how a ‘cities of learning’ initiative could help more people benefit from the new digital learning age. 

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• Burn2: Carnival of Mirrors, Oct. 18­-25, 2015 Get your plot now!
• Burn2 Website 

HG WIP Show Sun. Sept 6, 20
PURSUE IMPOSSIBLE: UWA 3D Art & Film Challenges 2015,
SciFi Film FestivalSummer of Arts submissions open on Metropolis
Scroll down for News, Notes, and Info

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2015 ART: WRITE: Poem visualized and voiced. "Folding Time", by Chic Aeon

Poem visualized and voiced.  
"Folding Time," by Chic Aeon 

Multiple award winning American filmmaker, Chic Aeon's brings us 'Folding Time', a soulful film that touches the very soul. Video and sound to accompany voiced poem.  Is the printed page really the best medium for poetry?

• Watch on YouTube
• "Folding Time"

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• MachinimUWA VIII: Pursue Impossible, 8th UWA Short Animated Film Challenge. 
• UWA's L$560,000++ Pursue Impossible Art & Film challenges.
• CLOSING DATE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 31ST OCTOBER 2015.

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• Burn2: Carnival of Mirrors, Oct. 18­-25, 2015 Get your plot now!
• Burn2 Website 

HG WIP Show Friday, Aug 21, Sun. Aug 23.
PURSUE IMPOSSIBLE: UWA 3D Art & Film Challenges 2015,
SciFi Film FestivalSummer of Arts submissions open on Metropolis
Scroll down for News, Notes, and Info

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2015 WRITE: PEOPLE: Editors--you want to hire this lady

Editors--you want to hire this lady

Why do I think this lady is an expert in writing a feature story for internet consumption?  Controversial topic.  SEO catching word.  Breaks the limits of virtual worlds.  Invites all readers.  Invites comments from all sides.

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• Burn2: Carnival of Mirrors, Oct. 18­-25, 2015 Get your plot now!
• Burn2 Website 

HG WIP Show Friday, Aug 21, Sun. Aug 23.
PURSUE IMPOSSIBLE: UWA 3D Art & Film Challenges 2015,
SciFi Film FestivalSummer of Arts submissions open on Metropolis
Scroll down for News, Notes, and Info

2015 EDU: GAME: iCivics: Do I have a right?

iCivics: Do I have a right?

Civics instruction game. iCivics developed.   Junior State of America applied.  K12 should be interested.  Lots going on.  Does everybody know where the action is? 

• Watch on YouTube

• Do I have a right?
• iCivics
• Welcome teachers

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• Burn2: Carnival of Mirrors, Oct. 18­-25, 2015 Get your plot now!
• Burn2 Website 

HG WIP Show Friday, Aug 21, Sun. Aug 23.
PURSUE IMPOSSIBLE: UWA 3D Art & Film Challenges 2015,
SciFi Film FestivalSummer of Arts submissions open on Metropolis
Scroll down for News, Notes, and Info

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