Chapter 1 of Book Study "Can We Skip Lunch and Keep Writing?" by Julie D Ramsay

21 members attended including several CRSs from Virginia Beach, teachers from all over the country and Deeds David from China! One VBCPS principal was in attendance. Back channel was active and Austen Rae did a great job of answering our questions.

Movie by Cyrus Hush

Photos from the Virtual Pioneers Medieval Tour

Math Apps Night on VSTE Islan

 We had a nice night sharing math apps with Jazmemo facilitating. A document was started on Google Docs that we will continue to fill in as we meet more and share apps for each subject.

Talking with Tab at Timbucks

For a short time I had a house at Timbucks again. It was a corner lot and cost $6000 Lindens a month. I think that was about $23.00 US. That's really too much to pay for a virtual piece of sand with a virtual house and virtual furniture, right? I was there for two months one being July, my month off. It gave me a place to entertain friends and practice building enough to make book stacks for seats for my VSTE book study meetings. I'll miss it but I can't justify the cost.

Random Pictures while Frolicking with Friends

VSTE Make and Take Japanese Lanterns

Monday Mandie Mimulus lead VSTE members in another building class. This time they made beautiful Japanese stone lanterns that resembled the tops of light houses. There were six or so notecards of directions. Jaz, Cyrus, Leko and others did a great job of creating lanterns. I didn't do very well. :P
I'll try again on my own when I'm not distracted by newbies needing help and real life interfering. :)

Norse-themed Folkvang

Sunday the Virtual Pioneers toured Folkvang with two of the three sim creators leading the way. That's the best kind of tour. You feel the love the people have for their vision and creation. They love to show it off and point out the special features.
I experienced a lot of lag and spent more time taking photos than listening. There were learning stations and role play costumes. Different parts of Norse mythology were represented. The sim was very well organized and still quite beautiful. I need to return and pay more attention to the content at some point.