Thursday, September 25, 2008

Big Things Happening!

Now let's see. It has been suggested that I blog about this process but I've been told it's secret. Hmm. What to say... There have been some interesting meetings including a face to face with Danny, Executive Director of VSTE, and Barrie, his Professional Development Director. Janene, Al, Marie, and Lisa were there. We met at the School Admin Building to talk about our desire to do a conference session about Second Life at VSTE in February and have some power to upgrade the VSTE building and perhaps get more land and prims. We also wanted some authority in the VSTE group so we could send notices and get members together for events. What we got was much more! We are not doing a session in Virginia Beach's conference room at VSTE, but we are doing about seven sessions, some repeated, in an area that will be set up for us at VSTE highlighting Second Life. We will do a special event Monday night, which will be a surprise, and we got much more than we anticipated. VBCPS Dept of Tech and VSTE are being amazingly supportive of us, too. I can't say how, exactly, another secret, but we are awed by the gift of approval Janene shared last night. We also met inworld with Milosun (Ross), Flying (Danny), and WitchyRichy (Karen) at different times in the last couple of days. We are learning about the history of VSTE in SL, the vision the board has for the future of VSTE in SL, and making sure our Executive Director's appearance in SL is in keeping with what we expect of him! His purple sneakers are to die for! So here we go! Our plans for VSTE, and possibly ISTE, are beyond what we thought we'd be doing. We have a lot of people to contact and a lot of building to do. I will try to keep track of it here, as much for myself as for anyone else who is interested. Thank you, Lisa, for the photo!

3 comments:

Al said...

I think it is time that we revisit our previous request for SL access to work. I would appear that our efforts are supported by the school system. If this is true, help us by letting us access SL in our work environment.
This would make it much easier for use to work at times when we have the time...
What do you think?

Unknown said...

I agree with you Al! Having access at work would also make planning for the conference a lot easier.

Thunder said...

I fixed the error you found Lisa, regarding the surprise last night. I actually misunderstood the good news!
Regarding SL access at school, go for it. I turned in the first HEAT call on it. Someone else try this time. Maybe they would open it just for the four of us as a test case before opening for other CRSs and then all adults.