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7 months ago

in Cool Cat Teacher Blog: In Google We Trusted and Now Our Project's Busted on Cool Cat Teacher Blog
Have you looked at OpenSim yet? http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page

If you look around you will find a few educators already using it, like these guys: http://www.openhabitat.org/

To set up a publically available region you would need a web host and a someone with a bit of technical nous, but it's not insurmountable. There are new free and commercial hosting grids popping up all the time - http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Grid_List
, but I'm not sure they have the security/safety you would like for educational use.

It's only a matter of time before someone sets up an education-specific grid.

You should also be able to set it up on a school server without too much hassle if you only want local students to access it. You can actually run it on your own computer too (although you don't get multi-user access then... but it's good for practicing building skils offline).
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coolcatteacher Thank you so much for this, Sean. There are some open sim users who may let
us test and join in. AT this point, I've gotten permission forms and going
to let my students help me make the decision - we're going to be evaluating
and posting the information we find on their blog -
http://digiteendreamteam.blogspot.com and we'll see. Open Sim is something
I'd love to do, but I'm not going to load our servers down any.
Thank you for the great information! I'm going to pass this along to the
students.

7 months ago

in An Illichian Rant on TechTicker
Word!

Radical? Yes. But at least you have the cojones to call a spade a spade.

Power. Control. Authority. Coercion. This is what much of the education system is still about. And it's these terms which are strangely missing from many of the discussions about "progressive" education.

1 year ago

in Weekend Whimsy on The Metaverse Journal
So what's the dirt on 'The Making of Mini Baku' being removed? Do you have Slashdot power Lowell? :-)

1 year ago

in News.com.au - Terrorists in SL on The Metaverse Journal
Gobsmacked! Is there some "Worst Reporting on Second Life" award going at the moment?

1 year ago

in Blow up the pokies on The Metaverse Journal
Linden Lab need to clarify this, but from my reading I'd say that camping chairs are exempt as there is no wagering going on. You have to put money in for it to be classified as wagering.

2 years ago

in Four Corners on SL: it’s good, bad AND ugly on The Metaverse Journal
I couldn't get in because of computer problems, but would have loved to ask Ticky why they chose to focus on the more sensational and controversial aspects of Second Life and didn't pay much attention to all the positive uses, such as the educational, non-profit, health and business uses (as you point out).

I don't think it was a very balanced report at all. All the interesting, creative and useful spaces they could have shown and they showed shot after shot of avatars dancing in nightclubs. I've never seen so much dancing in a report on Second Life!

2 years ago

in Email and IM changes in SL on The Metaverse Journal
You are not alone... I had no idea I we could reply to the emails either! Cool.

2 years ago

in SLOz HQ - The Build Part 1 on The Metaverse Journal
I expect to see an Aussie BBQ and an Aussie Dunny on there - http://bloghud.com/id/3792 :-)

2 years ago

in Uni Degrees Way Above Zero! on The Metaverse Journal
There is at least one Australian uni with a SL presence - the University of Southern Queensland has an island called Terra incognita - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Terra%20incognita/1...

2 years ago

in ‘Get an Aussie Politician into Second Life’ Poll - need your suggestions now! on The Metaverse Journal
Senator Andrew Bartlett will probably do it at the drop of a hat - he's a keen blogger - http://www.andrewbartlett.com/.

2 years ago

in pano on Torley Lives
Oh, I see... that's how you did it!

Head... done... in! :-)

2 years ago

in pano on Torley Lives
Hey... what would happen if you took photos as you pivoted around a focal point, such as yourself, and then stitched them together?

I think the result would do my head in! :-)

2 years ago

in pano on Torley Lives
I've never used the Alt-Zoom machinima camera... maybe you could use that to set up a rotating camera.

btw - that's a link to my YouTube videos, not yours! :-)

2 years ago

in Mademoiselle Ravenelle on Torley Lives
Boy you are having fun with Autostitch! :-)

I didn't even think of using it on SL photos. What a great idea! Have you experimented with zooming in and zooming out to see if you can minimise the wide-angled lens effect to get a more even panarama?

Not there is anything wrong with doing it the other way for artistic purposes, but if you got it looking realistic you could then create those wrap-around VR panaramas inside a cylinder. Then you'd be inside Second Life inside Second Life!

2 years ago

in Second Life +is+ an OS on Scobleizer
Now you can indeed blog from within Second Life - http://bloghud.com/.

My belated 2 cents - Second Life itself won't be an OS - as others have pointed out it's too centralised and proprietary.

But I do think it's definitely the precursor of the 3D web, and maybe, just maybe, the precursor of a future OS.

And it's just recently hit 2 million accounts, double the one million mark hit less than 2 months ago.

It's definitely going to be something!

2 years ago

in Technorati crax me up on Torley Lives
Yes, Second Life's own apes banging on the grid is pretty hilarious too!

2 years ago

in Technorati crax me up on Torley Lives
Not as funny as the Bloglines Plumber! (courtesy of .CK)

2 years ago

in beespace : SL first reactions on Beespace
You don't actually leave your body in world when you log off... it disappears completely!

2 years ago

in beespace : Debut in Second Life on Beespace
Hey Bee! Welcome to Second Life! You won't be sorry! Okay... you will get frustrated with the performance problems like we all do, but I think you will be thrilled with the educational possibilities. :-)
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