Chapter 3 Can We Skip Lunch and Keep Writing?

This week we talked about using multimedia. In her book, Julie D. Ramsay talks about how the children attended an ISTE Webinar for teachers about digital storytelling and became so excited they wanted to create digital stories of their own. Students wrote about famous people from history and told how our lives would be different today if those people had not ever lived.

This session was not as well attended. All the other VSTE facilitators were busy with PTA open houses or had no power still from a recent hurricane. It's not our regular meeting night anyway. Attendees felt like a lot of teachers were busy with the beginning of school. We agreed to continue meeting Thursday nights as planned, with additional advertising this week.

MESH

Mesh has come to Second Life. I remember years ago my nephew getting into 3D design and making incredible things to show off his skills. He created a beautiful dragon with multiple points of movement and the most lifelike eyes. It was mesmerizing. Seeing it without skin showed how it was made of multiple angles and lines. It looked like mesh, a complicated net of points, lines, etc. That is what I thought SL was going to be, but it wasn't. Now, it is! Here is my first photo of a mesh created sim.

 

I visited Mesh Mellows with that exploring dynamo, Cyrus Hush. You can barely see me riding a dragon in the center.

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