Shakespeare at the Pavilion

On Sunday night I attended a production of Shakespeare at the Pavilion, presented by Avatar Repertory Theater and the San Diego City Sim. They did one scene from several different plays. The interesting thing about SL is that one can "go" behind the stage with camera controls to see the sitting actors waiting for their turns. Avajean Westland was one of the actresses but she doesn't know me. She's only met my alt. I could not seem to get anyone to come see this with me. I sat with strangers. :P

Cages Everywhere!

At some point before Henny spoke at VSTE about Quest Atlantis we got together in my house to talk about his presentation. Somehow we go to talking about dealing with griefers and started displaying weapons. I have some Widowmakers or something that Cyrus gave me ages ago and Henny had this cage deal. We started shooting things at each other but nothing happened. At least nothing we could see. There must have been lag issues. When I returned to Channel Island days later my house was completely full of these black cages! It was funny and easy to take care of. I looked at the About Land window and returned all prims to Henny. There were over 100 of them! Later I realized that these black cages are all over the nearby islands, too. I can't return the ones not on my own land. I sent a message to Skipper Burns and asked him to return cages to Henny that I'd found in the sky. I'm not sure he did but I think so. Today I found more under water! Finally I have sent Jeff, RL Henny, a tweet asking him to come help me clean up. It's a little bit like trying to clean up the last bit of Easter grass or Christmas tree tinsel. There is always one more piece to be found!

Sloodle Class

Where I met AgileBill...

Virginia Trekkers

The Virginia Trekkers came to share their journey to fame as the No. 1 source of Virginia Studies podcasts. Their site is the go to place for exciting information about our great Commonwealth.

Interview with ITRTs from the Longwood Area

Al and I received an email from a Dr. Manorama (Mano) Talaiver from Institute for Teaching through Technology & Innovative Practices. She wanted us to share our enthusiasm for Second Life as a professional network with ITRTs from the Southside Virginia Regional Technology Consortium (SVRTC). We shared the email with the rest of the team and the SL listserv which Danny, Barrie, and Janene also get. Dr. T wanted us to meet her during the day on Tuesday, May 19th. Unfortuneately that is an SOL test day and we CRSs are used as proctors in all of our schools. In addition, we are still not able to use the SL viewer from within the school firewall. The obstacles seemed impossible to overcome. As it turned out, however, every one of our administrators let us cut out Tuesday, missing SOL testing and connect to SL from home for an extended lunch. Mano sent Bill in her tall feminine avatar to represent the ITRTs who were observing us on a screen. It was indeed strange to hear a male voice coming from a female body but we pushed on. Bill let us share whatever came to mind about VSTE Island and our presence in SL. Eventually this led to questions from his audience which he relayed to us. When we were about out of time we toured the island on Mandie's magic carpet. We hope to see some of our western counterparts in SL soon.

Robbie's Place

This is my view across the water to where Robbie100 Dubrovna docks his boat. I can't usually see it but today I experimented with my graphics settings and went to ultra. Skipper Burns has truly done an incredible job of building Voyager Archipelago.

Quest Atlantis

Henny Zimer came to speak about Quest Atlantis at VSTE Island. It was his first presentation in-world and, though he fretted over it quite a bit beforehand, he did a wonderful job. Quest Atlantis is a virtual world for students, ages 8 to 15. There were over 30 participants in the VSTE Island Pavilion. http://teacherman79.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/on-a-soap-box