Documenting the building of an Island (& community) in Second Life, started on 9 Sept 2007 designed to support educators worldwide (with an emphasis on S.E. Asia)
Open 5th Feb 2008 http://slurl.com/secondlife/International%20Schools/64/90/24
Second Life details (3D online virtual environment), related to teaching and learning, at www.shambles.net/secondlife
Naace is the (UK) professional association for those concerned with advancing education through the appropriate use of information and communications technology (ICT). http://www.naace.org
At the annual conference, March 2009, in Blackpool, England one of the breakout sessions was a mixed reality one hour introduction to virtual worlds and in particular Second Life, a co-presentation with myself in Thailand.
My links in Thailand to the Blackpool hotel were through Skype and also from inside Second Life. Unfortunately the (UK) internet connectivity was not up to the task at this time, maybe I was too critical of the English weather and the rain driving against the hotel windows ... I'll burn more joss sticks next time.
But even though the real life participants in the audience missed out on a real time Second Life demo and tour I was still in-world, with a videographer LeonTubrok Beaumont (SL name) and a casual visitor, Alena Tigerauge (SL name) who happened to be visiting International Schools Island at the time.
So rather than give in to our disappointments at losing the link with Naace in the UK we decided to take advantage of the skills we had between us and do the tour anyway with LeonTubrok wielding his trusty video camera.
This video (machinima) was completely unrehearsed and unscripted and done in real time ..... and although a real time experience in Second Life would have been preferred this is a brilliant alternative given the situation ... we hope you find it interesting and motivational.
I'm most grateful to Leon Tubrok(real life name Neil Corbett) for not only taking the video but also the much more time consuming editing ..... and also to Alena for the encouragement and support.
Shamblesguru Voom (SL) Chris Smith (RL) www.shambles.net csmith at csmith dot info
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Naace is the (UK) professional association for those concerned with advancing education through the appropriate use of information and communications technology (ICT). http://www.naace.org
At the annual conference, March 2009, in Blackpool, England one of the breakout sessions was a mixed reality one hour introduction to virtual worlds and in particular Second Life, a co-presentation with myself in Thailand.
My links in Thailand to the Blackpool hotel were through Skype and also from inside Second Life.
Unfortunately the (UK) internet connectivity was not up to the task at this time, maybe I was too critical of the English weather and the rain driving against the hotel windows ... I'll burn more joss sticks next time.
But even though the real life participants in the audience missed out on a real time Second Life demo and tour I was still in-world, with a videographer LeonTubrok Beaumont (SL name) and a casual visitor, Alena Tigerauge (SL name) who happened to be visiting International Schools Island at the time.
So rather than give in to our disappointments at losing the link with Naace in the UK we decided to take advantage of the skills we had between us and do the tour anyway with LeonTubrok wielding his trusty video camera.
This video (machinima) was completely unrehearsed and unscripted and done in real time ..... and although a real time experience in Second Life would have been preferred this is a brilliant alternative given the situation ... we hope you find it interesting and motivational.
I'm most grateful to Leon Tubrok(real life name Neil Corbett) for not only taking the video but also the much more time consuming editing ..... and also to Alena for the encouragement and support.
Shamblesguru Voom (SL)
Chris Smith (RL)
www.shambles.net
csmith at csmith dot info
The videographer
Based in Manchester, England
LeonTubrok Beaumont (SL)
Neil Corbett (RL)
contact: leon.tubrok@googlemail.com
URLs
Naace Strategic Conference 2009 Blog
http://blackpoolconference09.naaceblogs.org
Breakout Session 3: Introduction to virtual worlds
http://tinyurl.com/btbw2d
The 17 min video I used in the RL presentation is at
http://shambles.blip.tv/file/1441636
International Schools Island (isi) Blog
http://internationalschoolsisland.info
General Info About SL
http://www.shambles.net/secondlife
Video can be seen on several hosts
Vimeo: www.vimeo.com/3516600
Blip.tv: http://leontubrok.blip.tv/file/1850140
YouTube: split in two parts
Part1: youtube.com/watch?v=VlEeSV7GimY
Part2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQXE5mzFpNs
It's interesting to see the quality displayed on each of the hosts .. when it was the same original file taht was uploaded.
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