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Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 1-1:50 p.m. KCELT 2097 or Join Us Virtually SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Comm%20Media/230/223/21/?title=IUP%20-%20Interactive%20Simulation%20System%20for%20Second%20Life You'll be happy to hear that we think that the problems we were having with Second Life are over. We will reschedule the demo of Green Phosphor with Bob Wise from West Liberty University hopefully for one of our sessions in December. Since this week is our last "Second Life and Lunch" session before the Thanksgiving holiday, we are going to visit a Thanksgiving-themed build created by doctoral Communications Media and Instructional Technology Students at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. By creating this build, they also created a free product called the Preso-Matic Game Kit for the educational community of Second Life to quickly develop immersive simulation games in Second Life like this (a product which just might help with the development of the Plague Sim under construction on the Kirkwood island). Here's a promotional video of this build: We will be starting this session with a group voice chat (text chat works in the same chat box for those without microphones). A teleport to the start of this simulation will be sent as a notice before the meeting. If you're not able to make it this week, I hope you are able to visit this build on your own. It is a good example of how to bring educational content into Second Life. If you don't have an avatar: You're always welcome at our Second Life and Lunch sessions. Feel free to stop by and check out what we're doing. It's a perfect time to see what Second Life is all about. Bring your lunch and bring a friend. If you join us virtually: We will be using voice. If you don't have a microphone, you can still communicate with the group through text. Note to all members: If you're a Kirkwood faculty member don't forget to sign up for this free KCELT session on the Kirkwood EagleNet whether you plan to join us in

If you missed today’s “Second Life and Lunch” session about Where to Build in Second Life, I wanted to send you a link to a YouTube video by Torley Linden. He gives a nice overview of The Ivory Tower of Primitives that you can view here: To check it out in SL, here’s the SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Natoma/211/165/44 You can see an overview of the FREE instructor-led building classes at Rockcliffe University on their Web site here. To check it out in SL, here’s the SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Rockcliffe%20I/99/99/24 If you have any questions, feel free to send them my way. Next week is Spring Break and KCELT is in the process of moving. We’ll have a virtual-only meeting in the Kirkwood sandbox to go over some basic building tips. Kit

Last year Christopher Keesey, Project Manager of Marketing and Learning Applications at Ohio University gave our group a tour of their Second Life campus. That tour is now available on our group's YouTube channel. This tour has a lot of information for any college considering creating a presence in the virtual world of Second Life.

Lab With Leo #82 - Business and Second Life: What works and what doesn't?

Catherine Winters
Virtual Worlds Marketing Consultant

More and more real-world organizations are using popular virtual world Second Life for a variety of purposes: advertising, education, e-commerce, or for the novelty factor alone. Are these meaningful forays into the future of the internet, or simply companies playing around in virtual reality for its own sake? Catherine Winters (Catherine Omega in Second Life) shows some examples

The Nonprofit Commons, a community of nonprofits in Second Life, expands to a second virtual location. Video by Draxtor Despres of the DraxFiles.

Adam Reuter is the name of the avatar who covers the Second Life beat at Reuters.

"Frameless heads on nameless walls, with eyes that watch the world and can't forget - like the strangers that you've met". [Don McLean].

Ever looked at your favorite painting and wished you could wander inside, to look at it from different perspectives? Spend a single day in one of mine, from early sunrise on a new day, to dusk when lights come on in cosy homes; through a peaceful night, till morning.

Shot on location in Second Life then post-produced, this was an idea I had a while ago. The Sim in this w

On the 3rd of August 2006, Suzanne Vega became the first major recording artist to perform live within a virtual world in avatar form. Suzanne was interviewed by The Infinite Mind's John Hockenberry within Second Life.

This short video tries to catch the moment from the perspective of the audience of the avatars who, from their 'armchairs' around the world, shared this moment together, live.

This video shows an ant harvesting simulation that was created in Second Life.

Dancing Ink Productions, in collaboration with Draxtor Despres, produced this machinima in Second Life for Manpower Inc., celebrating Manpower's first anniversary in the Metaverse. The video is an exploration about how the world of work is changing with the advent of virtual worlds like Second Life.

Full scale (140m) wind turbine, two solar generators (trough and stirling) and a "working" hydoelectric generator you can walk through. Great virtual field trip!

Updated (as of 03/26) walkthrough of an award-winning diplomacy game created in Second Life, by the students of IS195 at Montgomery College, Rockville Maryland.

A short piece describing why government (specifically NOAA) needs to take advantage of social media in order to better serve its constituents. If you agree with the video's message consider voting for the idea at http://www.change.org/ideas/view/inte...

This is a tour of the Bobcat Village, the Second Life virtual campus of the Texas State University - San Marcos

This virtual campus was built in Second Life, www.secondlife.com. It is a free 3D web kind of service.

Once registered, you can find our campus by signing on and teleporting to "Bobcat Village" -- all one word. The campus is open to the public.

Educational Technology efforts in the Virtual World are expressed through the ideas and methods of Boise State University's professors and graduate students. Written and Directed by Cecil Hirvi.

Produced by the folks at the Electric Sheep Company, this promo provides an overview of the New Media Consortium's virtual campus built in Second Life

Movie of work by daden.co.uk illustrating Google Maps and 3D Birmingham in Second Life for a post at http://www.digitalurban.blogspot.com

More 4 News on how autistic people have found a kind of freedom through technology. Autism is not a disease, they say, but a way of life.

In real life Alice Krueger has severe multiple sclerosis and is unable to walk without the use of crutches. She rarely leaves her home except for trips to see her doctor. In the virtual world of Second Life she leads a radically different existence. Here, she is the avatar Gentle Heron, the co-founder of the Heron Sanctuary - a self-described "support community" for others facing similar situations. In this clip she takes us on a eye-opening tour of her world.

A short compilation (using the cool joystick cam feature!) of some of the branded builds in Second Life (part of a 30minute longer video) - from the likes of Reuters, BMW, Sony BMG and Ericcson, BigPond, Reebok, Vodafone, IBM, ABC TV, Showtime, Pontiac, American Apparel, Virgin, Dell, NBC, Apple (unofficial), Sears, Circuit City and AOL.