Metaverse U and me

Metaverse U was a fantastic conference/workshop  that i attended last week at Stanford. I planned on adding my notes here but I don’t think can add anything that hasn’t already been said and aggregated at technorati + metaverse U  My course syllabus was quoted in an article titled A Disruptive Technologyin University World News in January. I stumbled upon the link while […]

Ed Coop Holiday Party in SL tonight!

Join the members of the Educators Coop tonight in Second Life from 5-8SLT. DJ Bcreative Wild will be spinning holiday music and special request from 5-7. Join us if you can, we’d love to see you : ) CLick here for TP to Educators Coop Overflow TeleportNorth Lamar and Bluewave OgeeJoe sanchez and Leslie Jarmon

Student machinima

This is the first of four student machinima projects I will be posting created by the students of Working in Virtual Worlds, a class I teach in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin. Students were required to plan, coordinate, and host an event in Second Life as part of the […]

Cory Ondrejka Leaves Linden lab!!!!

Mitch Wagner of Information Week Reports that Cory Ondrejka has left Linden Lab He has a link from Moo Money who has posted the text of emails sent from Philip Linden to LL employees. Momey Moo’s blog post is titled, Was Cory Linden fired, or did he quit? A few updates have been posted and […]

W00t W00t

W00t W00t, “W00t” is the Merriam-Webster word of the year. W00t is being used more and more frequently in Second Life. Where i have seen the biggest growth of the word has been at educational events. Last year people would simply use a clap animation or a “/me nods” animation to indicate agreement or appreciation […]

Last day of class Fall 07

Well tomorrow is my last day of class for Working in Virtual Worlds. Its been a very interesting semester and it ended with quite bang last night at the Custom car and Motorcycle show. The sim peaked out at 62 avatars and many people were sending me IMs trying to get into the show but […]

Another Student event

  The final student project in my Working in Virtual Worlds Class will be held Tuesday 7pm PDT at Slaytona. The event will feature a live DJ and several cars and motorcycles built by some of the best custom vehicle makers in Second Life. If you haven’t seen the high quality custom cars and motorcycles […]

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One of my favorite places in Second Life is the Music Academy Online, if you are a music lover and you haven’t visted Benton Wunderlich yet, you need to get there. I met Benton through Joskie, a fellow Educator Coop resident. At my first visit to the music academy Benton was hosting one of his […]

My Students raised 72,000L

Last night one of my four student groups enrolled in INF315e held their VirtuaL Work Team Project in Second Life. Taken from the syllabus the project is Virtual Work Team Project To demonstrate your ability to work effectively in a virtual world team you will create a simulation or produce a community event in Second […]

Invitation to Student Project in SL

This Thursday the first of four student groups in INF 315e will be having their team event in Second Life. The “G3s” as they have named themselves are hosting a benifit party at the Happy Clam this Thursday from 7-9PST Their invitation is below. I hope to see some of you there, they are tyring […]