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.

Alfredo and Mandie are Building

While I was at a meeting in Real Life, Al and Mandie were building an awesome wall. They did a great job. Mandie seems to have had the shape and Al had the carefully trimmed png from our trip. I added my barrel. :P Things are moving along. The search for artifacts is on! Oh and Bigreal, the shipbuilder says we are wrong about the deal we have with him. He is not giving us resell rights for the price we are paying. He charges a lot more for that. I think we can live with not reselling instead of paying more. Mandie came up with a super idea for ownership of all these things. If we have things that are not transferable, like these ships we will buy them with an avatar that we all have access to. The avatar can belong to VSTE and we can pass it along to future VSTE members, afterall the organization will outlive us.

Two Ships Under Way

Here is the picture I thought I had earlier. My friend, Susan, asked to see this. I have GOT to go to bed now!

Proud of Cyrus

My friend, Cyrus, spoke at ISTE tonight about his work in Second Life setting up a classroom for university and professional college students. He did a good job of explaining the process for anyone who is interested and doesn't know where to begin. I was proud to see someone up on the stage that I know so well. I was really nervous for him and couldn't even listen the entire time! Silly me! I guess I know him so well and have known him so long I was overly empathetic, as though I were up there. I can't imagine ever being in that position. There must have been 40 or more avatars there at one point. For the first time that I can recall there were griefers, too. One female avatar drove her sports car right up on stage. Cyrus handled it very well. It was an SL moment, that is for sure!

Building

Al and I stand on the deck of the newly created Discovery, October 13. It's so exciting to see the ships being created. Al and Mandie have also been trying their hands at building. They have each created their own versions of fort walls.