2016 WRITE: Writers of the virtual worlds: Author Doug Green. Speculative fiction on the internet.

Writers of the virtual worlds: Author Doug Green. Speculative fiction on the internet

With nearly every new story or movie being a reboot of a previous hit, the public is hungry for new ideas, new worlds, new universes to explore.  Such is the case with the science fiction novel 'Awakening' written by Douglas Green. 'Awakening' takes a fresh look at human history, and alien intervention throughout mankind's evolution.

• Invited post by author Doug Green
• I am interested in posting more articles by authors who are active in virtual worlds.
• If you are a publishing author using virtual worlds in any way,
• contact me in the comments section of this article. 
• Doug has built up a large group of friends in virtual worlds.
• Friends can help friends promote books.
• The images shown here could have been partly prepared in virtual worlds.
• /s/ Selby Evans

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Pi-Archimedes Short Poetry Workshop- Tue-3/8,7pm SLT 

Because next Monday is March 14, the Short Poetry Workshop presents the Pi-Archimedes form. It is 6 line poetry form based on Pi calculated to 6 numbers. Join us for this short poetry form and learn, write and share your Pi Archimedes

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2016 EDU: Learning objectives are for the learners. Not just for instructional designers

Learning objectives are for the learners  
Not just for instructional designers.
Updated 9/8/2016

Learning objectives tell you what the developer expects a person to be able to do after completing the instruction.  If those objective match what you want (or need) to be able to do, the instruction may match your goals.  And you will know when you are finished. 

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Yeah.  What you want to learn.  The people who design instruction units decide what people are supposed to learn from the unit.  But you can choose the units you will study.

• The Science of Learning Objectives – Part 1
• Importance of Learning Objectives in eLearning
• 4 Ways of Presenting Learning Objectives in Online courses – Infographic 
• Learning how to learn | Barbara Oakley | TEDxOaklandUniversity

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2018 HG: PEOPLE: Exploring the Hypergrid: tours, destinations, addresses, communication.

Exploring the hypergrid:   
tours, destinations, addresses, communication
Updated 9/11/2018

What you need to know to explore the Hypergrid: Community tours, how to find and use addresses, how to communicate with people on other grids

HG Safari Clubhouse

• Hypergrid Safari (G+ Community)
• Metaverse tours

Hypergridding has changed the face of OpenSim. It has opened doors and forged friendships across grids. As much as it's still a work in progress, the possibility to visit 'foreign countries' is one of the most intriguing, challenging, and fascinating aspects of OpenSim. ... OpenSim has blossomed into a cross pollination of creativity, and created in many a sense of belonging to the whole hyperverse, rather than just one niche.-- Pings from the afterlife

2016 HOBBY: First water skiing In Open Simulator (Vehicles)

First Water skiing In Open Simulator

Well-known scripter Ricardo Sorciere shows and describes his development of a system for water skiing in OpenSim.

• Watch on YouTube
• Ricardo Sorciere 

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2016 ART: VIDEO: NEW: Avatar Repertory Theater starts community promotion. HG projects

Avatar Repertory Theater starts community promotion.  
HG projects

Communities in virtual worlds can promote their activities to the public.  If they have activities unrelated to the public image of virtual worlds, they may be better suited to promote their activities than are the grids.  Avatar Repertory Theater (ART) is especially suited to produce promotional content because it includes writers, bloggers, and video producers.  This article reports on a project to promote ART activities to outworlders who are interested in some aspect of theater or video production.  These people will have no interest in coming into a virtual world to be in a virtual world, but they may be interest in coming into a virtual world to be in theater or video.  

New Theater by A.R.T.

• This is not about virtual worlds; it is about theater in virtual worlds.
• So our question is are you interested in theater?
• Are you interested in performing with a group of other actors?   
• Are you interested in performing under an experienced director? 
• Are you interested in showing your voice-acting in videos?
• Are you interested in writing for actors who will want to perform your work?
• Are you looking for a way to do those things right now? 
• Are you interested in building sets that will appear in videos? 
• If you find any of those opportunities attractive, 
• you want to find out about Avatar Repertory Theater.
• And how you can be a part of theater right in your own home.  
• We are located on the Hypergrid on Kitely.

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2016 ART: FunkyJunk immersive art sim, discovery art

FunkyJunk immersive art sim, discovery art

Discovery art is a natural fit for virtual worlds.  This is art you can walk around in, art you can explore, art that makes sounds, art that moves, art that can react to your action.  Such art cannot be depicted in flat pictures, although pictures can show a few details.  

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• LEA blog
• Linden Endowment for the arts

Go there

• SLurl below
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA22/235/34/22
• Paste SLurl into Nav bar of viewer, press enter

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2016 HG: EDU: NEW: Hypergrid: Starter guide on the web: The self-teaching method. HGProjects

Hypergrid: Starter guide on the web: 
The self-teaching method.
Updated 7/5/2016

When you go into a virtual world, you need to learn how to do things, starting with walking and talking. That can't be hard. Every baby does it. Without reading the instructions. That is because babies are born with a built in ability to learn. You don't lose that ability when you grow up. This series shows how to write beginner instructions for virtual worlds to reactivate that ability.

• The starting steps for using the Hypergrid, rewritten in self-teaching mode.
• Tells you what you need to be able to to do. (Learning/teaching objectives)
• Gives brief instructions and/or points you to more help if you need it.
• Learning is not about what you read, hear, or see. 
• It is about what you are able to do when you have learned.
• Community-based entry paths on the hypergrid
• What are: Hypergrid? OpenSim? Virtual worlds?
• Community-based entry: Welcome paths for community seekers in OpenSim
• Hello world! I'm Newbie Tubie, and I'm here to rescue you. From the flat world, that is. HGProjects

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Irish Blessings Short Poetry Workshop-Tue 3/1, 7pm SLT 

This week Arabella Nemeth is guest host at the Short Poetry Workshop with Irish Blessings in honor of the upcoming St. Patrick’s Day. We’ll be studying the Irish Blessing as a poetry form. So join us for a fun night of poetry.

• Short Poetry Workshop meets every Tuesday at 7 pm SLT 
• Location Link. Click to go or drag to the Viewer screen: 
• http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cookie/160/134/21/ 

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2016 HG: HELP: Free LSL Script Library and Bug Tracking System. HG project, BeatThis

The Free LSL Script Library Bug Tracking System.  
HG project, BeatThis

Bug tracking:  Essential element of a software development system now provided by Outworldz,

• 1854 free scripts  in the OpenSim Free LSL Script Library
• This Library now has a Bug Tracking System.
• -- Fred Beckhusen (Ferd Frederix)
• Got a bug? Report it at http://www.outworldz.com/mantis 
• Accounts are free
• Use yours to report bugs or request features on any LSL-type script,
• Second Life, Opensimulator, Inworldz,

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2016 ART: BIZ: Fashion design is popular in virtual worlds and embracing technology in the old world.

Fashion design is popular in virtual worlds 
and embracing technology in the old world.

Is it time for fashion design in virtual worlds to pay more attention to the needs of fashion design in the old ("real") world?  Fashion design in the old world can pay well for services; can virtual worlds provide any valuable services to fashion design in the old world?

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Internationally acclaimed fashion designer and educationalist, Betty Jackson, visited the RSA as the incoming Master of the Faculty for the Royal Designers for Industry, and spoke on ever-evolving technology and innovation within design.

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2016 BIZ: Virtual worlds for business and research. Real estate, models, estates, interiors, architects, interior decorators.

Virtual worlds for business.  
Real estate, model, estates, interiors.
Architects, interior decorators, city planners

A review of some outworld uses for inworld building

Is this interior decorating?

• Show your customers what your proposed plan will look like.
• Not with just a drawing.  Not with just a watercolor. 
• A virtual house.  A virtual estate.  
• They can walk through the house you are offering.
• They can walk around the estate you are selling
• CommonFloor Introduces Virtual Reality for consumers in Real Estate 

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