Fashion - Men in Sl

I don't know any of these men. I found myself in Second Life without a close friend online and went to play Zyngo, a matching game similar to BINGO and looking around at the people. Most of these were captured there. A couple were from Lyn Carlberg's live music performance which I went to for a few minutes, too. 

Leko's Photoshop Presentation

Tonight Leko Littlebird presented on VSTE Island. It was his first presentation in Second Life and he did a wonderful job. He's like the energizer bunny, never taking a breath, but the folks present hung on his every word. He presented tips and tricks for making textures work in Second Life. I wasn't able to listen because I was busy joining people to the VSTE group and sending teleports to folks that were on the island but not close to the sandbox. 

I advertised on SLED, in ISTE, in VSTE, on the VSTE ning, and I joined a Photoshop Lovers group to advertise there. We had a great turnout - 31 simultaneous attendees with more overall. I was very pleased. 

Game Night

That was fun, but my gosh I'm a nervous wreck when I get people to come to VSTE just on my say so. I had a teacher there from my school, a friend in England that I don't know that well, one of the Tech Chick Tips gals that I've been "working on" for a year, another person from my school system who is going to do a presentation for us soon, and several other friends who I'd begged to come! I was more worried about everyone being okay and having a good time than I am when people are in my house!

We had 2 Greedy tables and kept them both busy.

Leko brought his Parcheesi table and a cute pavilion he'd created for it. He got the textures from a photo he took of Edgar Allen Poe's home in Richmond. (a home Poe never lived in)

Jaz's bronco was a big hit. It gave prizes to riders and kept track of longest rides.

Look Who's on VSTE Island

What a treat! SG was there today when Jaz, Shera, and I were there. As far as I know he hasn't set foot on VSTE Island in about two years. Yippee!

Open Mic Night

Open Mic Night was May 5th. There were 9 of us there, 6 of whom sort of had to be there. We found plenty to talk about and Leko said we should do it every couple of months on a regular basis. We talked about 1 to 1 iPads for kindergarteners, for profit higher ed institutions getting the shaft from government on funding, Leko's new 3D mouse, software, and other topics. Esteban told a cute story about how teaching in SL is prefered to teaching in RL because of the special abilities he has in SL. I think he called them Super Powers: checking profiles, tags over students' heads, etc. I'm not prepared to call it a success because not enough people were there. It didn't appeal to many as an idea for a meeting.

For the Class

On Duty with Dodge

It was nice to have my friend Dodge visit during my ISTE docent duty this morning. He's just delivered a lecture via Skype to another country for the first time. I've been trying to set up a Skype with him and my third graders about animals since he is a college level bio professor in RL but I don't think the third grade teachers I work with share my vision for using 21st Century tools like this. Maybe I can get second grade to use his expertise!