Ships Delivered!

OMG! as they say in Second Life! (Oh my goodness, for me) We purchased three ships from Bigreal Luik yesterday! They are awesome, especially the flagship!

Here you see Bigreal, Pocahontas, and Mandie. I was "in" Pocahontas for the Linden/ship exchange, but Mandie actually created her. We decided that we needed an avatar who was the agent for the project. We will form no attachment to her personally. She will hold the Lindens and own the objects in the build so that, should we leave or loose interest, we can pass her on to the next group of volunteers. She will eventually have appropriate Powhatan garb. What an exciting day this was! Thank you, Mandie, for the photo!

Multiple Intelligences Build

This weekend I went on a tour to this build, by Zotarah Shepherd, which is probably the first such place that I found any real personal connection with. It's about Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences theory. Basically he defines many areas of human understanding. The linguistic, mathematical logical, intrapersonal, interpersonal, spacial, naturalist, musical, and kinesthetic are the eight represented in this interactive site. I have heard of these for years and found it interesting to try to figure out which my children and I had to greater and lesser degrees. It's a fun place to play as well.

Close Up of Ride with Bigreal

There is a closer shot of the shipwreck as well...

A Ride with Bigreal

I have spent a lot of my freetime in SL this week watching Bigreal build. Saturday he took a break and gave me a ride on a couple of his personal ships. He rezzed this ship, unfurled the sails, I hopped onto the bow and we were off! He sailed around several sims in his area and ran aground briefly once. The sails actually propel the ship and the wind direction matters. It's amazing to me that the creators of this virtual world have actually included the physics of the natrual world. Along with sailing there are mermen and mermaids living in this water as are sea creatures of many kinds. There are often battles between ships and Bigreal tells me the damage is actual. Perhaps the captains can simply rez a new copy of the ships they lose, I don't know. You can see in the distance on this shot a partially sunked ship.

More Blog Guilt

Ugh! I realize that all I've done is create captions for pictures. My thought is that later, when I have more time, I'll fill in the blanks. How do other bloggers find the time!

Anibal

Anibal is my newest friend. Here we are looking at art together. He was a newbie at ISTE when I was a docent there one morning. He lives in Portugal and is six hours ahead of me so we bump into each other at odd times. His young son often watches what we are doing in Second Life so it is my challenge to find new and interesting things to do that a five year old would like!

New Educator Pilot Program

ISTE members and newbies met tonight to hear George Linden and discuss the new pathway for educators into Second Life.