Second Life in the media

Our Boston CBS affiliate, WBZ, aired a report on a local company who is hiring new employees in Second Life. It was nice to see a positive report about Second Life!

"Virtual World Takes Job Search to New Level"

CNN enters Second Life!

Hey, let's be sure CNN gets lots of submissions from all the educators using Second Life to enhance teaching and learning on the Main and Teen Grids! Watch the video here to learn how to submit a CNN i-Report.

You can even pick up a CNN kiosk to place on your own land!

Kathy

Day 7 of the PLC

Today was a real work day of the PLC group. We only had four attendees today, but I had them make a purchase of a whiteboard, set it up, load it up, put it away, and demo'ed how to save a PowerPoint presentation as jpegs and upload a jpeg to Second Life. Lots of info for an hour, but the group is very professional now, and are true Second Life users!

They will each be presenting a 4-slide show on the night of December 5th, and, if we do not get done, on December 6th. I will be helping them individually in the meantime if they run into snags.

Join us in SL on Lighthouse Learning Island at 5:30 SL time on 12/5 (GMT -5) and watch the PLC group present their thoughts about the use of Second Life to support teaching and learning.

Scott Merrick came by during the class today, and it was a little tough to keep him in the loop of the activities since I was not using voice in-life, and the others were all in the real same room with me. I do appreciate you stopping by, though, Scott!

Kathy

Day 6 of the PLC: Presentation by Kathy Dryburgh

This week, the PLC group came together, with many other guests, to the large presentation area on the Nauset plot on Lighthouse Learning Island. I had an ambitious 92 slides to get through, and I had re-uploaded them at the tiniest size possible so they would rez.

Well, things were moving along nicely, when, at slide 60, a notice from Second Life popped up that they were going to restart the region and we were all going to be logged off. Well, it happened, and, when logging back on, the island was still not available.

I found an nearby island (Eduisland II), where I happened to have rights to place an object, and sent a teleport message to all the participants who had re-logged in. I put out a whiteboard, had KJ and Clare round up the group, loaded up the rest of the slides to the whiteboard, and finished up the presentation. (I was told that things had not been rezzing well, although they were fine for me!)

Things learned:
1. Always have a back-up place to go in case this happens to you. Find a friend who will give you permission to place your educational tools in case the place you are presenting is re-started and disappears while you are presenting.

2. Remember to take your whiteboard with you if there is a note that the island is re-starting, so you can just place it in the new place and continue as if nothing had happened! :-)

3. Learn how to teleport groups of friends...it is easy to do, and I have used it a few times to teleport my PLC group, and it came in handy tonight! (I apologize to those who logged on late, made their way back to the island when it re-appeared, and could not find us at the alternate site.)

4. Remember to set yourself to "busy" when presenting, and, for those of you who are participants, try to find another friend attending the presentation to ask to teleport you or give you information. It is hard for the presenter to do that and present at the same time.

Thanks to all who stuck with the "mobile presentation" tonight! The URL to all the links and the show in PDF format, in case you missed it, is http://kathyschrock.net/web20/

Kathy

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