K. Hudson's PPT from the BPE conference

by Ken Hudson (Loyalist College, Canada)


http://www.slideshare.net/kenny.hubble/kenhudsonslbpe07keynote

Short Survey: L$1 per response!

By Chris Hambly...

Just to take your minds off surveys for a sec, here is a survey. 1 linden for each comment

Question, "Do-you-treat-online-relationships-differently-compared-to-face-to-face-ones?"

http://pizzaandmayo.com/2007/05/17/do-you-treat-online-relationships-differently-to-face-to-face-ones/

SL/RL Event - 6 simultaneous presentation modes!

A report by Jeremy Kemp (San Jose State University)

I had the great pleasure of assisting Dr. Daniel Livingstone of Paisley University as he presented a Colloquium at our island opening "SJSU SLIS" recently.

It was BY FAR the most complex live event I've ever been involved in. We totally geeked out – in six modes.

1) Dan was speaking to a live audience of about 30 faculty.

2) He was being video taped with the stream available on the Web live (and archive coming soon).

3) The video and slide textures where shown in Second Life on the sim.

4) I was projecting my avatar view to a projector on the back wall (so he could look out at his audience).

5) I was transcribing the chat into a Sloodle web chatroom - which was then relayed into Second Life.

6) The audience in-world of about 35 was chatting into a Sloodle chatcast box which was transferred to the web chatroom.

All worked reasonably well. The parts that DID NOT work were mitigated for audience members who just switched modes.

So, for example:

• S0me couldn't view the QT stream. They WERE able to read my chat narrative.
• My SL client crashed!!! I was still able to chat into the Sloodle chatroom on the web.
• Some didn't go into SL AT ALL. They saw the video stream on the web and/or the Sloodle chat stream.

Moral of the story – "network effect" applies likewise to multi-modal presentation. Two modes are MORE than twice as effective as one mode.

Or is that the Titanic effect?

-j

Cef^sl (Portuguese workshop in SL)

By Luis Francisco Pedro (Zes Garfield)

Cef^sl (Portuguese workshop about communication, education and training in SL)
Registrations will close next Monday (May 21st).

Next week (23-25 May) we will host a 3-day workshop at Aveiro University in Portugal.

Main topics are communication, education and training in SL and some presentations can be followed at Universidade de Aveiro island (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Universidade%20de%20Aveiro/118/115/38)

Most communications will be held in Portuguese. However, we'll have 2 main events in English: a communication by Robin "Linden" Harper (24th May at 11.00 GMT) and an open discussion on education issues with the presence of Katherine Milton (Ohio State University - 24th May, 19.30 GMT). More information at http://cefsl.blogs.ca.ua.pt.

Request for contributions: SL's Konstrukt magazine

From Alexander Kanaev...

... With so many accusations about SL lately, we believe it is important totell the world that Sl has a great potential for creative and innovative ideas. With this in mind, we are trying to devote the next issue of theKONSTRUKT magazine to education.

We are looking for articles on the following topics:
- benefits of SL as an educational platform;
- successful experiments of using SL for educational projects;
- methodology of teaching in a fluid 3D environment;
- tips to institutions establishing or thinking of establishing a presence in Sl;
- the rationale, hopes and lessons learned from institutional "in-world" presence.

Of course this is just a wishlist, and we would be more than happy to listen to what you are willing to share. Ideas, results, problems and advice - anything you would like to share with the community, we are happy to give you a platform to do so. The issue is planned for the 16th of June, and because of limited space, we would ask you to get in touch with us asap.

With best regards
Chaos Venera
Anna Grant

About theKonstrukt: we are a free magazine about SL, available in .PDF format. We are an analytical publication, mostly focusing on WHY things are happening in SL instead of just describing places and events. Visit us in-world or just download your copy at www.thekonstrukt.com

SLEDBuilders Listserv

If you are in charge of building a campus or designing instruction in 3D, I invite you to join the _SLEDBuilders_ mail list.

http://lists.simteach.com/listinfo.cgi/sledbuilders-simteach.com

Did you know...

• Info Island Archipelago is funded by a diverse set of grants and the International Spaceflight Museum was co-founded by a PhD in Aeronautics?
• The two tiers for builders and scripters? Whether you buy services with micropayment or contract with professional who accept university POs, fees range from $5/hour to $80+. Fully decorated university sims are running $10,000-$20,000?
• A four-sim corner will accommodate nearly 100 avatars and may be rented by the day for as little as $40?
• The ICT Library has a demonstration rezzer tool that will let your faculty choose from dozens of classroom settings at the touch of a button?
• Stanford University has a private island used only for research and MIT purchased their island in a unique way after dealing with some legal issues with the TOS?
• You can find campus squatters in skyboxes by "Disabling Camera Constraints" and peeking up there?
• You can log visitors to your email account with a simple script and then offer them membership in your marketing group?
• Creating a "Student Peer Mentor" program may help your faculty get in and comfortable?

These are the kind of issues we will be discussing on SLED Builders.

Posted to SLED Listserv on 10-MAY-07 by Jeremy Kemp