yours if you want it.
- About Virtually Olivia -
Welcome to the chronicle of places I go, and events I attend in my Second Life travels. I post lots of photos and landmarks to get to stops I recommend. Most of this blog - but not all - is dedicated to educational builds or places pertaining to education. I am an ardent Second Life traveler, and this blog reflects that.
28 July 2009
SLER Meeting 7_28_09 Open Session
and the wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round....
the table just keeps going around and around as more and more people come to these meetings.
my photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oliviahotshot/sets/72157613096361294/
the group's photos:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/sler/
Read the transcript here.
27 July 2009
26 July 2009
22 July 2009
21 July 2009
Museum_African_American_Experience
- Quicktime recording of the interview with the designer:
http://treet.tv/media/dw_050_14jul09_169a.mp4
Middle Passage -
slave pose found inside of the many cages on the dock,
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Northpoint/69/64/23
Museum_African_American_Experience
Middle Passage
slave images found inside the ship.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Northpoint/69/64/23
- Quicktime recording of the interview with the designer:
http://treet.tv/media/dw_050_14jul09_169a.mp4
20 July 2009
All about control, or paranoia and nothing about the method or content
On the SLED list today:
"As I understand it, there is no way to prevent a student from leaving
a private sim and exploring the greater virtual world. However, is
there a way of providing an immediate alert or notice to a student (avatar)
that they are about to leave the boundaries of the sim they are in (either
via TP or moving across a boundary line) and to have a record
of the date/time and avatar name. There may be some situations (such as
in training within corporations) where the employees are expected to
stay inside of the areas provided by the corporate training department. If
they choose to explore other aspects of SL they may do so but with their own
avatar account and on their own time."
_________________________________________________________
Mister Ultimate Control
Information Technology Training Consultant
Information Technology Learning & Development
Nationwide Services Company
My Take:
1.
Spend more time on creating engaging creative methods of interacting with the employees than on tracking and containing them. Wouldn't it be wonderfully nice if people actually wanted to stay, stayed, and participated in ways that helped them to remember content and extend it to their work lives?
Scripting people into submission is not the way to do it. You can lock them in or isolate them, but that is no measure of how much they will learn or engage. If nothing else, it will make them resentful. And, don't assume the participants are all noobs. A savvy person will simply park an avatar there and do something else until the time is up. (I highly suggest inventory reorganization as something else to do.)
2.
"If they choose to explore other aspects of SL they may do so but with their own
avatar account and on their own time," really smacks of 'you've been owned.' Don't the employees own their avatars? Where did this idea of an avatar only being used for the corporate experience come from? Can't an avatar be a substitute for the real person who does a lot more in a day than sit at meetings?
3.
Totally an example of poor pedagogy is above. It makes me cringe when i see this sort of thing. Moving to OpenSim might be the way to go to keep the employees in veal state, but a simpler idea might just be to ask employees to lock themselves in their home office, turn out the lights, and crank up the volume of a conference call.
"As I understand it, there is no way to prevent a student from leaving
a private sim and exploring the greater virtual world. However, is
there a way of providing an immediate alert or notice to a student (avatar)
that they are about to leave the boundaries of the sim they are in (either
via TP or moving across a boundary line) and to have a record
of the date/time and avatar name. There may be some situations (such as
in training within corporations) where the employees are expected to
stay inside of the areas provided by the corporate training department. If
they choose to explore other aspects of SL they may do so but with their own
avatar account and on their own time."
_________________________________________________________
Mister Ultimate Control
Information Technology Training Consultant
Information Technology Learning & Development
Nationwide Services Company
My Take:
1.
Spend more time on creating engaging creative methods of interacting with the employees than on tracking and containing them. Wouldn't it be wonderfully nice if people actually wanted to stay, stayed, and participated in ways that helped them to remember content and extend it to their work lives?
Scripting people into submission is not the way to do it. You can lock them in or isolate them, but that is no measure of how much they will learn or engage. If nothing else, it will make them resentful. And, don't assume the participants are all noobs. A savvy person will simply park an avatar there and do something else until the time is up. (I highly suggest inventory reorganization as something else to do.)
2.
"If they choose to explore other aspects of SL they may do so but with their own
avatar account and on their own time," really smacks of 'you've been owned.' Don't the employees own their avatars? Where did this idea of an avatar only being used for the corporate experience come from? Can't an avatar be a substitute for the real person who does a lot more in a day than sit at meetings?
3.
Totally an example of poor pedagogy is above. It makes me cringe when i see this sort of thing. Moving to OpenSim might be the way to go to keep the employees in veal state, but a simpler idea might just be to ask employees to lock themselves in their home office, turn out the lights, and crank up the volume of a conference call.
19 July 2009
17 July 2009
16 July 2009
New Gallery Exhibition
Olivia's Art Garden Exhibition Opening
by Olivia Hotshot and Omen Crow
July 18 from 3 - 4 pm SL Time, Music by KelvinBlue Oh - with the best of the Blues.
Come explore our multi-layered open-air gallery filled with art and sculpture by some of Second Life's best.
Artists for this exhibition are Feathers Boa, who is here for her third amazing time, Estelle Parnall, Thess Writer, Scottius Polke, Balthasar Constantine, Omen Crow, Olivia Hotshot, Fasttoes Foder, Jibrael Yifu, BlackOpal Galicia, and Life Charron.
Dancing, live music, and a welcoming warm environment is yours for the asking.
~ Formal or festive attire is requested. ~
Copy/paste this SLURL into your browser to TP directly to the gallery:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sunset%20Commerce/219/192/23
To Check out KelvinBlue:
www.myspace.com/knavybluesontherun
Hope to see you there. ~Olivia
15 July 2009
SLER 7_14_09
Issues Outside of SL that Effect SL
packed house and commentary by Iggy O, who in this photo, just happens to be giving me the inside scoop on Ron Glass' work in Open Sim.
12 July 2009
11 July 2009
olivia's art garden exhibit opening
a photo for the art garden opening on July 18 at 3pm SLT
Try and come, why don't you?
slurl.com/secondlife/Sunset%20Commerce/219/192/23
10 July 2009
rabbicorn
the fabulous Bryn Oh. (I was lucky enough to go through the sim with my friend, Jessica Quin, the IBM SL manager.)
Her world exceeds all others. Be sure to take the time to go to her newest creation, Rabbicorn. It is a touching exquisite masterpiece. (Hosted by IBM until September 1.)
http://slurl.com/secondlife/IBM%203/128/134/2
09 July 2009
Michael Jackson Statue
a photo from Daniel Voyager
slurl.com/secondlife/Shags%20Oasis%20North/86/145/55
08 July 2009
new windlight presets
www.flickr.com/photos/mescalinetammas/
Using Mescaline Tammas' new windlight presets
07 July 2009
06 July 2009
RCE Visits
Jeffery1 is checking things out. Great to see the interest in the campus running on the CELT grant in SL.
04 July 2009
02 July 2009
01 July 2009
Mudd Library -Yale University
We visited two projects built for Yale University- the Mudd Library, which explores the use of Second Life to remodel existing real world buildings through participatory architecture and the Yale Paper Mill, which uses Second Life as a virtual field trip for a highly complex and dangerous real life environment. Ken Panko and Themba Flowers from Yale, shared their starting visions for the projects and how they have been used since completion.
The Mudd Library:
http://virtualworlds.nmc.org/portfolio/mudd-library/
The Yale Paper Mill:
http://virtualworlds.nmc.org/portfolio/yale-university-paper-mill/
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