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.