Example of a Second Life Virtual Web Quest

Virtual Web Quest about Learning Spaces

Objective: Develop some ideas about constitutes an excellent virtual learning space in 3D immersive environments

What should virtual learning spaces look like? Will they be just be a replica of what exists in 2007 in real life, or will they be much more creative and informal?

Work as a team to identify what makes a good virtual world learning space and why. Be prepared with some remarks for the next workshop session.

Set up a team meeting to visit learning spaces on Second Life.
Make sure you identify a ‘meeting chairperson’ and a scribe to take notes so that you can refer to them later. To save the chat history, click Edit --> Preferences --> Communication --> click Log Chat and choose a location on your computer for the text file.

Visit a number of learning spaces in Second Life using the Resources section below as a starting point, and look at how they have been set up. What are the key features of each learning space you visited? – and how will you know if they are successful learning spaces that help learners to learn?

(To search for these locations, use Search --> Places tab --> include mature content
• SL Ecosystem [SL Location: Terminus 147, 106, 27] – Search term: SL Ecosystem.
o SLurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Terminus/147/106/27/
• Academy of Second Learning: ASL [SL Location: Eson 32, 162, 351] – Search term: Academy of Second Learning.
o SLurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Eson/32/162/351/
• SL Computer History Museum [SL Location: Info Island II 241, 54, 23] – Search Term: SL Computer History Museum.
o SLurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island%20II/241/54/23/
• EduNation [SL Location: EduNation 70, 49, 23] – Search term: EduNation. Free seminar facilities for educators.
o SLurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/EduNation/70/49/23/
• Reef Ball Coral Reef Library [SL Location: Changmi 167, 81, 110] - Search term: Reef Ball.
o SLurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Changmi/167/81/110/
• English Village [SL Location: English Village 131, 156, 126] – Search term: English Village
o SLurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/English%20Village/131/156/126/
• Literature Alive [SL Location: Eduisland II 186, 241, 22] Search term: literature alive.
o SLurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Eduisland%20II/186/241/22
. Terra Incognita [SL Location: Terra incognita 156 99 33] Search term: Terra Incognita
o SLurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Terra%20incognita/128/128/0



This learning activity has been adapted from http://www.sleducationuk.net/ for a more detailed version of this virtual quest that includes ideas about evaluating the activity and suggests some additional outcomes. Visit Education UK island: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Education%20UK/248/39/22

Jen Caruso - FridayLive! session June 29, 2007

Jen Caruso is planning on a short phone conversation with Steve Gilbert for the FridayLive! session about Second Life (June 29, 2007)> (Yes, another session about Second Life!) Find some information about her work with her course "The Human Animal" here: http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Jen_Doolittle's_Teacher's_Lounge_notes_for_12_April_06&printable=yes. And her Human Animal blog that supplemented the work of the course.

Visit Desideria Stockton's class June 25, 2007

From the New Media Consortium:

June 25, 6:00 PM SLT/PDT (http://timeanddate.com/s/epg)(Second Life Time = Pacific Daylight Time) : Take part on a literature class with Desideria Stockton.
Desi has invited the buzz to her class, where you can engage in the activities from a student perspective. Join her at the Women of Brewster Place classroom Quiricosta (219,41,502) http://slurl.com/secondlife/Quiricosta/219/41/502


More details: http://sl.nmc.org/2007/06/22/buzz-literature/

If Real Life were like Second Life

Funny video!

Getting together with Desideria Stockton

Desideria Stockton invited TLT Group Workshop participants to visit her classes in Second Life. Just what we all want! You'll get to see an excellent educator running a class in Second Life. Her wiki below includes course syllabi, etc. Next class June 20, 2007 that will be held 9:30 PM EST in Second Life at Quinicosta, 219, 40, 503. She will be glad to send you a tp (teleport) to her area. If you log on to Second Life, use the "search" button and look for Desideria Stockton. Add as friend. She should manage to accept your offer of friendship and then offer you a teleport to her class site.

Beth Ritter-Guth. Lehigh Carbon Community College.
Courses in English lit, American lit, Womens Studies
http://collegeenglish.wikispaces.com/ritterguthclasses

To find more information, search "Desideria Stockton" in Google. You will find blogs ( http://bethssecondlife.blogspot.com/ ), interviews, etc.

More Resources

In an effort to be Web2.0 and to utterly confuse myself by posting to too many places, I have a wiki started at http://ilene.pbwiki.com/ with some additional resources about getting started in Second Life, education in Second Life, etc. This supplements some of the resources posted on the TLT Group site for our workshops.

Odds and Ends

Some of this may have come to you on email, so this is information "just in case":

See if these directions work for you for the Boracay Hitchhiker's Guide travel HUD that I tried putting in everyone's inventory:
Click your inventory button and then search Boracay.
When you find the listing for it, right-click on it and "attach HUD" --> Center . That worked for me!
It should become visible on your screen - give it a few seconds - and then allow you to click through the pictures of places to visit in Second Life. If you click right on the picture, it'll teleport you to that location!
When you are done traveling, right-click on the HUD and "take" it. That'll put it back in your inventory.
Places listed on the HUD (created by Corwin Carillon from Boracay Island - Thanks, Corwin!) :


Bliss Nature Area
Help Island (for newbies)
InfoIsland Archipeligo (Cybrary City is part of the InfoIsland Archipeligo)
International SpaceFlight Museum
L-Word (another orientation area)
NMC Campus Archipeligo
NOAA (Weather related data)
Orientation Station (for newbies needing a refresher orientation)
The Port
Svarga (a virtual ecosystem)

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Clothes! Shopping for free!:

Clothes... If you click the "search" button and type freebies , you'll find places to go get boxes of clothes - some of which you might even like ;) so that's one way! Just prowl around! There are some good tips about getting started that includes making the all-important fashion statements on this blog:
Natalia Zelmanov's Second Life Diary:
http://slnatalia.blogspot.com/search/label/*%20Getting%20Started%20in%20Second%20Life%20Guide%20*
She's saying there's stuff out there for newbies (Read down to "8: Stuff for newbies") - all of which I missed out on because I was totally ignorant when I got started. (Sigh) (Her tip to go to Free Dove is a good one!)

Using Voice in Second Life with the First Look Viewer

Anyone game to try voice? Here's all the info I could dredge up from the Second Life web pages:


DOING VOICE ON SECOND LIFE:
http://secondlife.com/community/firstlook.php
(Go to the URL above to download the first look viewer.)
First Look Viewers are test versions of the Second Life viewer. These viewers connect to the main grid, so that you can test it in your everyday Second Life. These are test viewers connecting to the live grid which means everything you do is for real. We want you to use these test viewers for your normal day-to-day activities, but please be aware that they might be buggier than normal.

Voice First Look Viewer: 1.17.0.113

This Second Life Voice First Look Viewer offers the Residents the ability to help us test the new voice feature against the Live Grid! Further information can be found in the related blog post here.
This First Look Viewer is in sync with the normal viewer. When updates to the normal viewer are released, we will update the test viewer downloads on this page.
If you're trying to find a voice-enabled region, take a look at this map.
http://secondlife.com/voicemap/

Headset: In order to participate in the Voice Beta test, you will need a set of stereo headphones with a microphone (preferably digital USB headphones). You will also need to select your headphones as the input and output device on your computer (otherwise, your voice will feedback into Second Life).
First, please make sure you have a set of stereo headphones with a microphone that works well on your computer. We have tested many brands and most work well, but you may have better results with digital USB models like those from Plantronics and Logitech. For this beta release, please make sure your headset is the selected audio input and output device before launching the viewer.


Please Note: Voice is NOT enabled by default. To enable voice, please go to Edit > Preferences and click the "Voice Chat" tab. Check the "Enable Voice" box.
When you are on a voice-enabled parcel, you can simply walk up to another avatar and begin speaking in a normal voice (no need to shout!).

If your headset is correctly configured, you will see a voice "intensity indicator" over your avatar. This indicates that your voice is being sent to (and can be heard by) others on the parcel.

The voice intensity indicator will change color slightly and will grow and shrink along with the natural volume patterns and fluctuations of your voice.
If the indicator turns red, you're either speaking too loudly, the microphone is too close to your mouth, or the volume control on your microphone is turned up a little too far.
Please make adjustments until the voice indicator stays in the bright green range and only seldom flickers to red.

When others speak, you will see their intensity indicators and hear their voices as they will hear yours. Walk around someone who is speaking to you to hear the voice move around in 3D, based on where you are relative to that avatar. If you turn toward someone and move closer, for example, their voice will be louder. If you speak while walking around someone else, they too will hear your voice tracking your position.

Group Voice Chat is not based on your proximity to other avatars. This means that you can chat with other groups of avatars (either formal Second Life groups you belong to, or with a group of friends selected from your Friends list) no matter where they are in-world.

You can access Group Voice Chat by clicking on the "Communicate" button in the bottom left corner of the viewer. Doing so opens a new feature called the Chatterbox. You will see a tab called "My Friends", which includes Group and Friends tabs.

Select a group from the Groups tab, or select multiple individuals from the Friends tab, and click the "IM/Call" button. An active chat tab for that group will open, and you can click the "Call" button in that window (located to the right of the "Profile" button) to initiate a voice call with a formal SL group.
Initiating a voice call with a group of your friends works the same way as text chat with multiple friends. From the Friends tab, multi-select the friends you'd like to call, click IM/Call, and then click the "Call" button. If a friend of yours does not have voice enabled, s/he will not be able to receive your voice call.

Volume and Camera Position
Also, each speaker's volume is attenuated by their distance from your camera position. For example, if you are in mouselook mode and walk up to someone who is speaking, you will hear their voice become louder the nearer you are. As you move away, their voices will become softer until you won't be able to hear them at all.

You may use the camera controls (alt-mouse, for example) to create a momentary "audio focus" on a given speaker. This makes it easy to "pick a voice" out of a crowd of talking avatars while remaining in one location.
In the Voice Chat tab of the Preferences window, you can now choose where you prefer to hear voice from: 1) camera position and camera direction, 2) avatar position and avatar direction, or 3) avatar position and camera direction.

Push to Talk
Included in the beta is a new "Voice Chat" tab in the Preferences panel. The Voice Chat tab allows you to turn voice on and off and offers "Push to Talk" options to determine when your microphone is open.

When you check the "Use Push-to-Talk mode" checkbox in the "Voice Chat" tab in the Preferences panel, you can have extra control over your microphone. We have also added an on-screen Push-to-Talk control in a recent release.

A "lock" button on top of the Talk button enables you to hold "talk on" or "talk off" (so the button doesn't have to be held down manually to maintain either state). Please Note: The Push to Talk setting is ON by default, which means that the Talk button is OFF. You will need to press the Talk button and/or lock "Talk On" in order for others to hear you. If you would like to turn the PTT setting off, please go to Edit > Preferences > Voice Chat, and uncheck the PTT box.

The volume slider on the "Voice" tab allows you to set a "baseline" volume for others' voices. You'll be able to hear speakers' voices increase or decrease in volume as you move the slider, which allows you to set a more comfortable overall setting for the voice volume you hear in world.

The "Talk" button is an on-screen Push-to-Talk button. If you have Push-to-Talk enabled in the Preferences > Voice Chat window, you can push the "Talk" button (using your mouse) when you want to talk and release the Talk button when you're finished. If you'd like to "lock talk on" (to avoid pushing the Talk button in and out to speak), just click the "lock" button on top of the Talk button. This will lock the button to it's "on voice" or "off voice" setting.

You can still control Push-to-Talk settings through the Preferences > Voice Chat window as well.

Now, you can check the "Push-to-Talk acts as a toggle" checkbox option. When you select "Push-to-Talk acts as a toggle," you press the Push-to-Talk key you chose (from the list of six, above) to turn talk "on." You will stay in "Talk" (on) mode until you press the key again, which turns talk "off."
When you select the "Push-to-Talk acts as a toggle" checkbox option, you can select any key to act as your "Push-to-Talk trigger". Just select "the "Push-to-Talk acts as a toggle" checkbox option", and then click the "Set Key" button. You'll be prompted to select a key as your trigger. After you've touched the key you wish to use, it will appear in the text box above "Set Key". If you wish to change it, repeat this process until you've selected the desired key. When satisfied with your selection, click "Apply" and then "OK" to close the Preferences window.

Active Speakers

The Active Speakers window displays a list of residents who are currently speaking in a particular voice channel. It also allows you to individually control the volume and muting of each speaker.

You can open the Active Speakers window by clicking on the button with speakers and speech bubbles on it. This button is located in the Voice tab, at the bottom of the viewer window, and is immediately to the right of the "Talk" button.

A dot appears beside each speaker's name. Dots indicate who is speaking. The dot mimics the speaker's volume range, which is also shown in the "active speaking" indicator that floats above avatars' heads. A green dot shows active speakers within normal volume range; a red dot shows an active speaker who has spoken a little too loudly.

In addition, the name of the resident who spoke most recently appears at the top of the Active Speakers list. As the time since a speaker's last utterance increases, the speaker's name moves down the list (to indicate "less recent" speaking) and the dot next to the speaker's name fades to increasingly lighter shades of gray.
Resident names can also be sorted alphabetically in the Active Speakers window.
To control the volume and mute settings for a particular speaker, just click on the speaker's name in the list and then use the volume control at the bottom of the window to make adjustments.

Voice Volume Control
You will notice a "Voice" tab at the bottom of the viewer window. It contains a volume slider and two buttons, one that says "Talk" and has a "lock" icon button and volume indicator on it, and one with an image of speakers and speech bubbles.
The volume slider on the "Voice" tab allows you to set a "baseline" volume for others' voices. You'll be able to hear speakers' voices increase or decrease in volume as you move the slider, which allows you to set a more comfortable overall setting for the voice volume you hear in world.

The Talk button on the Voice tab contains a volume indicator (a dot to the right of the button text that says "Talk") that shows how loudly you are speaking. Green indicates a normal volume and red indicates too loud a volume. This color scheme is a standard across visual speaking indicators for voice, but this indicator tells you how loudly you are speaking, not how loudly others are speaking.

Mute
One type of mute is currently available: one mute button mutes all chat (both text and voice chat) for a specified user. You can, for instance, opt to mute chat with a selected user, and doing so will mute both text and voice chat from that person.
To mute all chat with a specified user, access "Mute" in the pie menu by right-clicking on the avatar you wish to mute.
More nuanced mute functionality, for voice chat alone and text chat alone, is in development and will be included in future releases.

Speech Gestures
This build also gives you the ability to "wear" an initial set of "speech gestures". These speech gestures are randomly selected from nine different animations based on the intensity of your voice. These Gestures are currently located in your Library's Gesture Folder (under "Speech Gestures").

There are three gesture "sets" of three gestures each for low, medium, and high speech intensity levels.
To enable speech gestures, simply drag the folder labeled "Speech Gestures" from your Library on to your avatar.
To disable them, right click the Speech Gestures folder and select "Take Off Items."
We will refine and add to the set of nine speech gestures in the next few builds.

Just keep in mind: Voice is NOT enabled everywhere. You'll need to find a region in which voice has been activated. Just a few places mentioned (You should be able to use the "search" or "map" button to look for these locations. P.S. I can't vouch for what you'll find at these locations): Help Island, Orientation Island, The Port, Tolkein, University Island - and many others.

June 9 meeting in Second Life

The June 9 meeting for the TLT Group workshop on Second Life took place in Second Life using iVocalize to broadcast voice. We congregated at the Cybrary City auditorium (on Talis Cybrary City) and experimented with sitting down, chat, IM, shared some information about how to get around on Second Life, etc. See transcript of the chat session below. (There's a bit missing from the very beginning of the session - and some of the goodbys are missing at the end of the session.) The iVocalize aspect of the session was not saved. Some potential issues: Does anyone who was at the session mind having this posted? While it was clear that the earlier sessions on iVocalize would be posted, we did not make a disclaimer or ask everyone to agree to having the transcript of the chat session posted. There are gadgets in Second Life that allow the leader of the chat session to ask every participant to "touch" the gadget signifying agreement to be recorded. The remarks of other participants are not saved on the chat session.)



9:59] Joe Cupola: sure
[9:59] You: Are you in the TLT Group?
[9:59] You: Do that one!
[9:59] Joe Cupola: got it.
[9:59] Joe Cupola: still rezzing
[9:59] Janice Binder: Hi Everyone, should I change to a less-agressive-looking avatar?
[9:59] Diane42b Vollmar: hi hilliard...are you here somewhere?
[9:59] You: Agression is ok! Go for it! ;)
[10:00] You: Yeah, can you follow me?
[10:00] Ava Pugilist: hello
[10:00] Joe Cupola: follow me
[10:00] Percival's Short Bench: Right click me and choose 'Sit Here' to sit down
[10:00] You: I didn't get everyone's name - so I didn't get everyone into the TLT Group.
[10:00] Joe Cupola: excuse me jane
[10:00] You: I'll work on that!
[10:00] Ava Pugilist: hi ida
[10:00] Diane42b Vollmar: How can i sit down?
[10:01] Percival's Short Bench: Right click me and choose 'Sit Here' to sit down
[10:01] Percival's Short Bench: Right click me and choose 'Sit Here' to sit down
[10:01] You: Diane, click on the top of the bench - and then click "sit here"
[10:01] Percival's Short Bench: Right click me and choose 'Sit Here' to sit down
[10:01] Percival's Short Bench: Right click me and choose 'Sit Here' to sit down
[10:01] Percival's Short Bench: Right click me and choose 'Sit Here' to sit down
[10:01] Percival's Short Bench: Right click me and choose 'Sit Here' to sit down
[10:01] 3Jane Gray is Online
[10:01] Percival's Short Bench: Right click me and choose 'Sit Here' to sit down
[10:01] Percival's Short Bench: Right click me and choose 'Sit Here' to sit down
[10:01] Percival's Short Bench: Right click me and choose 'Sit Here' to sit down
[10:01] Percival's Short Bench: Right click me and choose 'Sit Here' to sit down
[10:01] You: Hey, pretty good crowd!
[10:01] Percival's Short Bench: Right click me and choose 'Sit Here' to sit down
[10:02] Regent Gazov: 15 have logged into ivoice
[10:02] You: She's here in SL
[10:03] Savannah Glimmer is Offline
[10:03] Percival's Short Bench: Right click me and choose 'Sit Here' to sit down
[10:03] DeeDee Peccable is Offline
[10:03] You: Hi! I'm a librarian at the University of South Florida Tampa Library.
[10:03] Drew Rodinia: Hi, I'm Drew Rodinia, who is Drew Smith in RL
[10:03] Crystal Whitfield: how do we log into ivoice?
[10:04] Jane Watanabe: I am Jane Burpee from the University of Guelph in Canada in RL
[10:04] Regent Gazov: hi, i'm hilliard from the board of regents, university system of georgia
[10:04] Janice Binder: Hi, Dragon-Lady here aka Janice Thiel from St. Petersburg College
[10:04] Ava Pugilist: hello i am mary bennett from csu fresno
[10:04] Ariadne Yiyuan: Hi., I'm Patricia Landy (Ariadne). I teach Latin and Greek at a community college in Cheyenne, WY
[10:04] You: Hi! I'm Ilene Frank in Real Life - in Tampa where it's tooo hot!
[10:05] Ava Pugilist: ida glad you made it
[10:05] Drew Rodinia: Ilene, you have the mike
[10:05] Crystal Whitfield: Hi, I'm Crystal Whitfield....I am glad to meet all of you!
[10:05] Diane42b Vollmar: Hi..I'm Diane42b Vollmar. Diane Chubb in RL. University System of Georgia
[10:05] Econ Bingyi: Hello, my name is Duane Graddy. I teach economics at Middle TN State Univ
[10:06] You: And some inventive avatars here! Cool!
[10:06] Ida Recreant: Greetings everyone! I'm a teacher at CSUFresno
[10:06] Ida Recreant: I teach business law and ethics
[10:07] Crystal Whitfield: I teach international human resource management and online management
[10:07] You: Yeah! You can use the "history" button to see the chat that's gone by.
[10:08] Jane Watanabe: this isnt the easiest place to have a good meeting. everyone is so spaced out
[10:08] You: You can also copy and paste the history of the chat into Word.
[10:08] Hypatia Dejavu is Online
[10:08] Joe Cupola: but everyone here should be able to "hear" everything going on here
[10:09] Ida Recreant: by "hear" do you mean the text chat"
[10:09] You: We're close enough for all of us to "hear" each other's chat.
[10:09] Percival's Short Bench: Right click me and choose 'Sit Here' to sit down
[10:10] Hypatia Dejavu is Offline
[10:10] You: Hi, guys! Want to come over to the auditorium?
[10:10] You: You can follow me.
[10:10] Laureen Yiyuan: show me the way?
[10:10] You: It' s back behind you.
[10:10] 3Jane Gray is Offline
[10:10] You: Just use your arrow keys to turn around.
[10:11] Drew Rodinia: are there any particular questions or problems involving chat that you might have?
[10:11] You: If you want to "sit down" , you can right-click on the bench - and then click "sit here" on the pie chart.
[10:12] Dazz Carter: yes what is this about
[10:12] Janice Binder: Is there a way to turn off the name "bubbles"?
[10:12] Percival's Short Bench: Right click me and choose 'Sit Here' to sit down
[10:12] Savannah Glimmer is Online
[10:12] Diane42b Vollmar: what are those white things shooting from someone's hand?
[10:12] Joe Cupola: edit preferences
[10:12] You: Yeah! Go to "EDIT" in the upper tool bar... And then... Preferences - and then...
[10:13] You: click '
[10:13] Hypatia Dejavu is Online
[10:13] Diane42b Vollmar: okay thanks
[10:13] Bonswa Boucher is Online
[10:13] You: GENERAL and then look for "show names" - You can click "never" or "show temporarily" or "always" an dthen click OK
[10:13] You: You'll be rid of the name bubbles.
[10:13] Janice Binder: Got it, thanks!
[10:13] Dazz Carter: is this UCD Dublin
[10:14] Cathleen Munro: I'm seeing a red arrow, what does that mean?
[10:14] Laureen Yiyuan: I don't have clothes?
[10:14] You: the red arrow points in the direction you are going.
[10:14] Cathleen Munro: ok
[10:15] Drew Rodinia: any questions relating to chat or IM?
[10:15] Econ Bingyi: Is IM private?
[10:15] You: Yes, IM is private between you and the person you are IMing
[10:16] Drew Rodinia: Ilene, which area did we have next on our list?
[10:16] Ava Pugilist: everybody say hello to josefina
[10:16] Drew Rodinia: hi, Josefina!
[10:16] Jane Watanabe: hi josefina
[10:16] Regent Gazov: hi
[10:16] Ariadne Yiyuan: hi
[10:16] Cathleen Munro: hello josefinaa
[10:16] Josefina Auer: hi
[10:16] Nea Munro: Hi Josefina Where are you f rom?
[10:17] Diane42b Vollmar: hi there
[10:17] Econ Bingyi: Econ : Hello josefina
[10:17] Ariadne Yiyuan: hi
[10:17] Josefina Auer: fresno state
[10:17] Drew Rodinia: let's talk about profiles for a minute
[10:18] Drew Rodinia: try right-clicking on someone else and choose Profile
[10:19] Drew Rodinia: as practice, pick someone else (such as me or Ilene or Joe) and choose Profile...then put something about us in your "My Notes" tab
[10:19] Jane Watanabe: i have never really found anyone who had put much in their profile.
[10:20] Nea Munro: Is any here a nursing educator?
[10:20] Drew Rodinia: Jane, yeah, many people don['t bother saying much about themselves in their profile
[10:20] Joe Cupola: I think most people don't until they've been on awhile
[10:21] You: Drew, this raises an interesting issue: How anonymous do you want to be?
[10:21] Drew Rodinia: great question!
[10:21] You: What do you all think about that? Are you comfortable saying who are in Real Life?
[10:22] Janice Binder: In an education setting, it's necessary for future networking.
[10:22] Ida Recreant: There has been a long discussion about this issue in the educators e-mail.
[10:22] Diane42b Vollmar: I think it would depend on my purpose in SL.
[10:22] GemTwin Oh: I think I would want to be anonymous until I became more familiar with Second Life. Don't want to embarrass myself.
[10:22] Jane Watanabe: Yes. I don't think it shuod be thought of as any different that my web presence
[10:22] Regent Gazov: for now, until i learn more about it, i prefer to be private
[10:22] Econ Bingyi: As an educator , I would like to keep it open.
[10:22] Nea Munro: I aminterested in being completely open as an Educator. I will use another avatar for anonimity if I find I want this.
[10:22] Ava Pugilist: for that reason many people may have two "lives"
[10:22] Diane42b Vollmar: If I'm doing an research interview, I might want to remain anonymous.
[10:22] Ariadne Yiyuan: It depends on the situation, If it's educational, I want people to know my RL. If I'm exploring, I want to be anonymous.
[10:22] Ida Recreant: IGem I don't mind embarassing myself--I do it all the time in RL.
[10:23] Joe Cupola: good answer Ida!
[10:23] Ida Recreant: Thanks, Joe
[10:23] Drew Rodinia: let's try something else, although this is optional...
[10:23] You: Ida, that's a healthy attitude! Joe and I are always bumping into walls and stuff. It's ALWAYS embarassing :)
[10:23] Econ Bingyi: Why do I have "You "instead of my name on the chat?
[10:23] Janice Binder is Online
[10:23] Nea Munro is Online
[10:23] Jane Watanabe is Online
[10:23] Ida Recreant: Yes, Ilene--luckily, most of the time I'm by myself, but today I +ran into" a few people . . .luckily they didn't notice
[10:24] Ida Recreant: :)
[10:24] Econ Bingyi: Oh, ok
[10:24] Jane Watanabe: where are you? i turned of the name bubles
[10:24] Joe Cupola: Don't feel bad if someone declines
[10:24] You: yes, we all have to be very understanding of each others bumbling :)
[10:24] Ariadne Yiyuan is Online
[10:24] Econ Bingyi is Online
[10:25] Janice Binder: Would more people want to be my friend if I wasn't so scary looking?
[10:25] Joe Cupola: any friend you have shows up as "xxxxxxxx is online" anytime they come on what you're on.
[10:25] Drew Rodinia: Janice, LOL
[10:25] Drew Rodinia: Janice, actually, that look might attract you *many* friends
[10:25] In Kenzo is Offline
[10:25] You: Ok... I'm trying to send invites to everyone to be in the TLT Group.
[10:25] Joe Cupola: econ you can adjust the light by doing this
[10:25] Joe Cupola: click on world
[10:25] You: I think dragons are good luck ;)
[10:26] Joe Cupola: click on "force sun"
[10:26] Janice Binder: Gee, thanks...
[10:26] Joe Cupola: and then pick noon.
[10:26] Ariadne Yiyuan: I like the dragon look.
[10:26] Robins Hermano is Online
[10:26] You: Oh yes! Joe that's a good tip!
[10:26] Ida Recreant: Thank you, Joe!!
[10:26] Stella Merlin: Hi, is this the TLT group meeting?
[10:26] Ida Recreant: It looks much better!
[10:26] Joe Cupola: you can control what time of day it is anytime you'er on 2L
[10:26] You: Hi, Stella, yes! This is TLT!
[10:26] Joe Cupola: I almost always have it at noon...
[10:26] Drew Rodinia: Stella, it is!
[10:26] Joe Cupola: light its better.
[10:27] Nea Munro: Yes, Stella this is the tlt meeting, Welcome.
[10:27] Stella Merlin: Thank you. Be advised that I couldn't connect via iVocalize and have no audio.
[10:27] Percival's Short Bench: Right click me and choose 'Sit Here' to sit down
[10:27] Ida Recreant: Stella, neither can I.
[10:27] Stella Merlin: Okay, same problem, Ida?
[10:27] You: A "day" on Second Life is about 3 hours long as I remember.
[10:27] Joe Cupola: yes 3 hours
[10:28] Diane42b Vollmar: Over here!
[10:28] You: Gestures - Yes ! See the button next to "say" and "shout"
[10:28] Percival's Short Bench: Right click me and choose 'Sit Here' to sit down
[10:28] Ida Recreant: Ilene, Yes
[10:28] You: There are some built-in gestures you can start with.
[10:28] Percival's Short Bench: Right click me and choose 'Sit Here' to sit down
[10:28] Diane42b Vollmar: Hey!
[10:28] Cathleen Munro: Get lost!
[10:28] Janice Binder: Hello!
[10:28] Joe Cupola: you can dance.
[10:28] Janice Binder: Hello!
[10:29] You: You can make up your own gestures!
[10:29] Diane42b Vollmar: where do get free gestures?
[10:29] You: Freebie places... The Dumpster is one place.
[10:29] Joe Cupola: Freebies Dungeon
[10:29] You: YadNI's... Joe what' s the rest of th e name of that place?
[10:30] Jane Watanabe: Looking good!
[10:30] Percival's Short Bench: Right click me and choose 'Sit Here' to sit down
[10:30] You: Yep, Drew and I managed to screw up some of our gestures.
[10:30] Cathleen Munro: are there any pets in 2L?
[10:30] BellTowerv.2 shouts: Chime melody
[10:30] Nea Munro: I don't have any gestures in my Gestures area. How can I get some?
[10:30] Joe Cupola: It's Yadni's Junkyard
[10:30] Janice Binder: /stretch
[10:31] You: As Drew just said, click INVENTORY - and there should be a folder of gestures you can activate.
[10:31] Nea Munro: Over here!
[10:31] You: I have to say that most people I meet dont' do a lot with gestures.
[10:31] Nea Munro: I have found the folder and the gestures See me shrug. Did you hear me say "Over Hear?
[10:32] Janice Binder: I've tried unsuccessfully to type the gesture with a forward slash. Do you know how?
[10:32] You: You can "right-click" on the bench - and then "sit here" ought to work.
[10:32] You: I usually end up backwards on benches - and sometimes sitting inTO the bench.
[10:33] Joe Cupola: if you do "/" and have the gesture active that will work.
[10:33] Lyr Lobo is Offline
[10:33] Joe Cupola: gesture has to be active.
[10:33] Jane Watanabe: shrug
[10:33] Regent Gazov: hi, diNW
[10:33] Janice Binder: You're right, I had to activate it!
[10:33] Regent Gazov: DIANE
[10:33] You: /blow kiss
[10:33] Regent Gazov: didn't mean to shout!
[10:33] Ida Recreant: Ilene, yes, I've even sat on signs. . . . :-)
[10:33] You: Some of my gestures seem to be working usin gthe / and some aren't.
[10:33] You: Ah - dancing!!
[10:34] Jane Watanabe: /dance
[10:34] Regent Gazov: Boo!
[10:34] You: pose balls - they activate gestures, etc.
[10:34] You: they can be scripted to make you dance, sit in a relaxed manner, etc.
[10:34] Percival's Short Bench: Right click me and choose 'Sit Here' to sit down
[10:34] Percival's Short Bench: Right click me and choose 'Sit Here' to sit down
[10:35] Percival's Short Bench: Right click me and choose 'Sit Here' to sit down
[10:35] Joe Cupola: fall out of the sky
[10:35] You: How about "camera controls" and "movement controls"? Have you found those?
[10:35] Ava Pugilist: woo hoo
[10:35] You: Click "view" and you'll find those
[10:35] Joe Cupola: camera control lets you adjust your point of view
[10:35] You: I like using both of those things and usually have them open on my screen.
[10:35] Diane42b Vollmar: i was ask to leave a particular island i was flying over.
[10:36] Joe Cupola: movement controls let you control your movements
[10:36] Fleep Tuque is Online
[10:36] You: Diane42b, so... you were over someone else's secret airspace??
[10:36] You: That's wierd!
[10:36] You: Oh... snapshots!!!
[10:36] Joe Cupola: private estates do that.
[10:36] Diane42b Vollmar: how do you get the camera again?
[10:37] Joe Cupola: prevent people from entering their land
[10:37] Joe Cupola: it's easy to confuse the 2 controls
[10:37] You: I'll take some snapshots and post them on Flickr
[10:37] Joe Cupola: camera just controls your view ...not your movments
[10:38] Diane42b Vollmar: oh yeah...this is cool
[10:38] Percival's Short Bench: Right click me and choose 'Sit Here' to sit down
[10:38] You: You can take snapshots and send them as "postcards" to friends in Second Life.
[10:38] Percival's Short Bench: Right click me and choose 'Sit Here' to sit down
[10:38] Nea Munro: Welcome Gem Twin.
[10:38] Econ Bingyi: In the left-hand corner I have a key. Does that stay there?
[10:39] Percival's Short Bench: Right click me and choose 'Sit Here' to sit down
[10:39] You: Hmmm... a key?
[10:39] Percival's Short Bench: Right click me and choose 'Sit Here' to sit down
[10:39] Joe Cupola: what does it say?
[10:39] Joe Cupola: move the mouse over it.
[10:39] Joe Cupola: I don't have that.
[10:39] Percival's Short Bench: Right click me and choose 'Sit Here' to sit down
[10:39] Joe Cupola: maybe something you picked up somewhere.
[10:39] Econ Bingyi: It is inside of a square.
[10:40] Percival's Short Bench: Right click me and choose 'Sit Here' to sit down
[10:40] You: Right! If you click "friends", people who are online will be in BOLD.
[10:40] Jane Watanabe: /dance
[10:40] Computer Jewell is Online
[10:41] Drew Rodinia: Ilene, what else was on our list to cover?
[10:41] You: Jane, I just tried giving you a "let's salsa dance" - Did you get an offer of inventory?
[10:41] Jane Watanabe accepted your inventory offer.
[10:41] You: OK!
[10:41] Ida Recreant: How is it we mmove our heads? I do it but I don't know how I do it.
[10:42] You: There are some gestures that your avatar just does - It sort of looks around, etc.
[10:42] Joe Cupola: your avatar moves all the time. you have no control over it.
[10:42] Joe Cupola: those little head movements etc
[10:42] Ida Recreant: Thanks Joe--I wondered.
[10:43] You: Xena, hi!
[10:43] Xena Meriman: hi
[10:43] Stella Merlin: Is there any way to mute inanimate objects -- like all these chattery benches we're sitting on?
[10:43] Ava Pugilist: hello xena
[10:43] Diane42b Vollmar: Is there a directory that tell you what's located on a particular island?
[10:43] Joe Cupola: drew we should tell people about giving / recieving items?
[10:44] Drew Rodinia: Joe, sure!
[10:44] You: Yes, the "search" capabilities aren't all that great.
[10:45] Stella Merlin: ...about muting the benches? How?
[10:45] You: Hi, RoBoh!
[10:45] Ava Pugilist: welcome RoBoh
[10:46] You: I'm going to try giving all of you the Hitchhiker's Guide to SL.
[10:46] Joe Cupola: You can give people anything in your inventory as long as it doesn't say "(no copy)
[10:46] Diane42b Vollmar: Thanks!
[10:46] You: Accept it and I'll explain what it is.
[10:46] Econ Bingyi accepted your inventory offer.
[10:46] Nea Munro: I am looking for a pose stool. Does anyone have one?
[10:47] RoBoh Ling accepted your inventory offer.
[10:47] Cathleen Munro accepted your inventory offer.
[10:47] Diane42b Vollmar accepted your inventory offer.
[10:47] You: Wait - I'm giving things.
[10:47] Computer Jewell accepted your inventory offer.
[10:47] Cathleen Munro accepted your inventory offer.
[10:47] Xena Meriman accepted your inventory offer.
[10:47] Drew Rodinia: good, now I can type! (talking and typing at the same time is tough)
[10:47] Ida Recreant accepted your inventory offer.
[10:47] Diane42b Vollmar accepted your inventory offer.
[10:47] Regent Gazov accepted your inventory offer.
[10:48] Drew Rodinia accepted your inventory offer.
[10:48] Jane Watanabe accepted your inventory offer.
[10:48] You: Ok - did I miss anyone?
[10:48] Joe Cupola accepted your inventory offer.
[10:48] Stella Merlin: Me
[10:48] Janice Binder: Me
[10:48] Failed to place object at specified location. Please try again.
[10:48] Cathleen Munro: I received it
[10:48] Josefina Auer: i didn't get it
[10:48] Percival's Short Bench: Right click me and choose 'Sit Here' to sit down
[10:48] Nea Munro accepted your inventory offer.
[10:49] You: Oops! I'm slowing down...
[10:49] UWT Octagon declined your inventory offer.
[10:49] Drew Rodinia: if you have any questions about the basics of SL, now is a good time to ask!
[10:49] Janice Binder: Hello!
[10:49] Regent Gazov: what is the difference between 'gestures' in my inventory and under library?
[10:49] You: Things aren't moving very quickly for me at the moment.
[10:49] Ariadne Yiyuan gave you Bonzai.
[10:49] Percival's Short Bench: Right click me and choose 'Sit Here' to sit down
[10:49] You: Vanguard, hi!
[10:50] Vanguard Bing: oh hi!
[10:50] You: Vanguard, this is a workshop of newbies mostly
[10:50] Janice Binder: I like the audio.
[10:50] Stella Merlin: Ilene -- I'm not sure that my chat's working. I did NOT receive the guide and my question was not answered.
[10:50] You: Do you want to introduce yourself?
[10:50] Janice Binder: All chat is tiring.
[10:50] Cathleen Munro: When you exit 2L do you always stay in the last place you were located?
[10:50] Vanguard Bing: ok. is it ok to hang out? I'm showing this to some coworkers.
[10:50] You: Stella.. I'll try again!
[10:50] You: Vanguard, that's fine!
[10:51] You: Got any suggestions fo r newbies?
[10:51] Jane Watanabe: I really likeit
[10:51] Econ Bingyi: The audio has been very helpful.
[10:51] Joe Cupola: you can't
[10:51] Janice Binder: I agree with Econ; I like the audio.
[10:51] Nea Munro: Cathleen. Yes. You can select a "home" and then tansport yourself there, before you leave.
[10:51] Computer Jewell: I like the audio - how do you do that
[10:51] Drew Rodinia: Joe says you can't mute an object
[10:51] Joe Cupola: you can't mute these objects cause they don't belong to us.
[10:51] Cathleen Munro: thanks
[10:51] Nea Munro accepted your inventory offer.
[10:52] Stella Merlin: Thank you VERY much, Drew!
[10:52] You: Stella, did you get an offer of inventory yet?
[10:52] Joe Cupola: you can mute people
[10:52] Drew Rodinia: Stella, no prob
[10:52] Regent Gazov: i'd like to see a mini educational classroom next week
[10:52] Stella Merlin: No, I did not receive the offer, Ilene
[10:52] Nea Munro declined your inventory offer.
[10:52] Computer Jewell: Regent that would be great
[10:52] Joe Cupola: Cathleen. you can set up under preferences where you appear when you login to 2L
[10:52] Joe Cupola: usually it goes back to where you last were.
[10:52] You: Stella, I don't know why I can't give you this thing - I'll keep trying!
[10:53] Joe Cupola: but you can change it to your home if you have one.
[10:53] Stella Merlin: Ilene, thank you. I'd appreciate it. I HAVE received other things often before -- so I know it should work.
[10:53] Computer Jewell: How did you activate audio
[10:53] Percival's Short Bench: Right click me and choose 'Sit Here' to sit down
[10:53] Nea Munro declined your inventory offer.
[10:53] Joe Cupola: it's under preferences----general---start location
[10:53] Percival's Short Bench: Right click me and choose 'Sit Here' to sit down
[10:53] Janice Binder accepted your inventory offer.
[10:54] Joe Cupola: they slowness we're all experiencing is called "lag" and it happens often when there's a big crowd in the same place.
[10:54] Joe Cupola: the slowness
[10:54] Stella Merlin: Joe - will Linden Labs address this lag problem. It's obviously a challenge for conferencing.
[10:54] You: Lag - when things go slower than you'd like! It might be your computer, it might be SL,... Hard to tell sometimes!
[10:55] Percival's Short Bench: Right click me and choose 'Sit Here' to sit down
[10:55] Stella Merlin: Does emptying your cache before starting SL help with lag?
[10:55] You: rez - or rezzing
[10:55] Diane42b Vollmar: Hey!
[10:55] You: Yes! Emptying your cache does help!
[10:55] SteveGilbertSir Heron declined your inventory offer.
[10:55] Nea Munro declined your inventory offer.
[10:55] Ariadne Yiyuan: How do you empty your cache?
[10:55] Joe Cupola: to empty casche click on preferences
[10:56] Joe Cupola: network
[10:56] Stella Merlin: "Preferences" in SL opening screen, before loggin in, right?
[10:56] You: to empty your cache - go to "edit" - preferences - network - and then "clear cache"
[10:56] Joe Cupola: "clear cache"
[10:56] Joe Cupola: you should do this each time before you leave 2L
[10:56] Percival's Short Bench: Right click me and choose 'Sit Here' to sit down
[10:56] Percival's Short Bench: Right click me and choose 'Sit Here' to sit down
[10:57] Percival's Short Bench: Right click me and choose 'Sit Here' to sit down
[10:57] Regent Gazov: what's the plan for next week?
[10:57] Joe Cupola: detach
[10:57] Joe Cupola: detach
[10:57] Stella Merlin: What about SL's new beta audio for voice chat? Will we try it?
[10:57] Joe Cupola: detach
[10:57] You: Steve, right-click on th etorch - and click "detach"
[10:57] You: Stella, beta voice requires downloading some more software.
[10:58] You: If anyone wants to try that I'm game!
[10:58] You: It works!
[10:58] Percival's Short Bench: Right click me and choose 'Sit Here' to sit down
[10:58] You: Anyone have a time that they might want to try the beta voice?
[10:58] Stella Merlin: I'd love to try it. If it will work while several of you others are using ivocalize?
[10:58] Georgia Hultcrantz: Can I be added as a member, please?
[10:58] Ariadne Yiyuan: I would like to try the beta voice.
[10:58] You: Drew give me the mic for sec
[10:59] Stella Merlin: I'll download the beta voice for next week -- I have to leave for a RW meeting in a few minutes.
[10:59] Diane42b Vollmar: Let's try the voice!
[11:00] Savannah Glimmer is Offline
[11:00] Diane42b Vollmar: Late Sunday's are better for me.
[11:00] Percival's Short Bench: Right click me and choose 'Sit Here' to sit down
[11:00] Econ Bingyi: Weekend is ok.
[11:00] Ida Recreant: Ilne, I'd like to try the beta voice; Maybe later in the week.
[11:00] Ida Recreant: Weekend is okay for me, too
[11:00] Ariadne Yiyuan: Sunday is fine.
[11:00] Percival's Short Bench: Right click me and choose 'Sit Here' to sit down
[11:01] Stella Merlin: I'm off to my meeting in RL -- thanks, and bye everyone!
[11:01] Hypatia Dejavu is Offline
[11:01] Ida Recreant: Bye Stella
[11:01] You: I'll see if I can get some people joined up. Stella, I'll keep trying to give you that inventory item!
[11:02] Computer Jewell: Hi all
[11:02] Stella Merlin: Thanks so much -- IM me if there's an additional mtg. this weekend -- and thanks!
[11:02] Diane42b Vollmar: Hi Computer Jewell.
[11:02] Ida Recreant: Hi Jewell
[11:02] Savannah Glimmer is Online
[11:02] Percival's Short Bench: Right click me and choose 'Sit Here' to sit down
[11:02] Sharron Jewell: Hi Ida...nice to meet you
[11:02] Ida Recreant: You, too.
[11:03] Sharron Jewell: Are you in the cyber library?
[11:03] Nea Munro: There is a book called Second Life the offical guide you can by at Amason.com
[11:03] Percival's Short Bench: Right click me and choose 'Sit Here' to sit down
[11:04] Janice Binder: I'd be very interested in a list of good educational SL locations.
[11:04] Ariadne Yiyuan: I didn't find the book all that informative, but the CD that comes with it is very good.
[11:04] Desideria Stockton is Offline
[11:05] Percival's Short Bench: Right click me and choose 'Sit Here' to sit down
[11:05] Jane Watanabe: thanks for the session good stuff
[11:06] You: Yes, the travel guide... Boracay Hitchhiker's Guide... I hope it's in your inventory.
[11:06] Percival's Short Bench: Right click me and choose 'Sit Here' to sit down
[11:06] Diane42b Vollmar: Thanks. I will need to leave now. Looking forward to next week.
[11:06] You: Open your inventory and look for it and then click on the entry and drag it out onto the ground.
[11:06] You: it should open up and give you a set of "slides" and you can click and go to the places in the slides.
[11:07] Drew Rodinia: I hope this was helpful!
[11:07] You: I'll send a list of places so you can get use that as an alternate way to get there.
[11:07] Jane Watanabe: can you clear yourmike you have interference
[11:07] Drew Rodinia: and this one has *lots* of complexity
[11:08] Joe Cupola: http://hippasus.com/resources/secondlife/SL_Keyboard_Shortcuts.pdf
[11:08] Dmitry Ahn is Online
[11:08] Jane Watanabe: thwat's better
[11:08] Joe Cupola: that's a website Steve where you can get 2L shortcuts
[11:08] Econ Bingyi: Thank you. Good session.
[11:10] Jane Watanabe is Offline
[11:10] Percival's Short Bench: Right click me and choose 'Sit Here' to sit down
[11:11] Nea Munro: Great Session. I really enjoyed today. It was new to have so many people together at once.

Getting Started Posting

Hi! Just getting something going on this blog... There have been some interesting discussions about Second Life on the SLED mailing list. SLED is a remarkably active discussion list! Recent discussions include some of the topics that were raised hinted at in our first workshop session: Should you reveal information about your Real Life in Second Life? How strongly do you identify with your avatar? Does your avatar behave like you? Act like you? Look like you? If you are not already a SLED reader, I suggest taking a look at some of the postings. You'll find information about the SLED discussion list at https://lists.secondlife.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/educators with a link to the searchable archives at the bottom of that web page - and an archive by date.