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Michael Bigwig capturing footage at the conclusion of Philip Rosedale’s live interview with Reuters from the World Economic Forum.
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The “On Their Journeys” immersive art installation by Strawberry Holiday is hosted on NMC Campus 9. You have to join the NMC Guests group to visit, but it is well worth the temporary group slot! Gorgeous colors, magical sounds, and a winding journey past amazing sights. Check it out!
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Beyers Sellers of Cornell University interviews three guests to discuss the US Federal government’s involvement in virtual worlds, including Paulette Darkstone of National Defense University, Aimee Weber of Aimee Weber Studios, and Universa Vanalten from NASA. The main venue is full up but check the website for other partner locations to attend!
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w00t! Bringing in a group of educators to check out PARSEC for the first time. 🙂
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At the NMC Teacher’s Buzz with Wainbrave Bernal discussing the SaLamander Project, a way for SL Educators to rank, rate, and cateogorize learning objects in the virtual world. Items tagged with the SaLamander tool and rated highly will be included in the MERLOT learning object repository. Cool!
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Typewriter Tackleberry stopped by to meet mi madre, Sine, and Chilbo neighbor Rachel, and talk about the SL for Dummies book which was SOLD OUT in two stores when I tried to pick up a copy this afternoon. Finally found one on the east side though, last one! Wainbrave dropped by briefly too, good night in Chilbo!
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Listening to a live concert in-world with mi madre in avatar form! w00t!
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Nope, just attending a demo of Stephane’s Zugzwang’s Virtual Reality Room, which he is making available for free to educators! He also mentions a site that has a tutorial for making panoramic images: http://www.fromparis.com/html/technical_us_create_a_quicktime_vr_in_10mnts.php and a free software tool to stitch them together called Panotools at http://www.panotools.org/.

Author Sean Percival (Sean Voss in SL) talks about his terrific Second Life Travel Guide, now available on Amazon at http://tinyurl.com/2a3ut4. I think this will be a great resource for new users and can’t wait to get my copy! Sean also has a companion website http://www.landmarkisland.com/ and a location in world at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Landmark%20Island/135/128/35. Terrific stuff for new users and those of us who help them!
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Just a reminder for folks who might want to attend, I’ll be speaking at Sophorosyne’s Saturday Salon in the Extropia Core sim @ 1PM SLT today. We’ll be talking about community building and education in the metaverse. Hope to see you there!
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