November 24 Week's Blog

I took some time off for the Thanksgiving holiday, but I did accomplish the following in SL:

Attended class in SL: Groups and Group Management, held at Insight Virtual College. SL allows an avatar to be a member of up to 25 groups. You can tell a lot about someone by checking the types of groups they are involved in. I'll be creating a group for my classes then I can share slurls with them and communicate other information to them. In this class we learned to create a group, assign roles with the group, set permissions for group roles, and set parameters for roles that will enable you to manage your business and land.

Completed my OCC Office. I continued to work on my office such as creating prims and adding textures to complete my wall hangings and photo frame. It's now decorated for the holidays, and I'm ready for this week's Open House.

Created Notecards for OCC. I created the following notecards and dropped them in Zaia's inventory: Griefers and Your Profile. I also shared some other information with Zaia that she may use for the Open House.

Watched Videos: I watched several videos which helped me with building and working with textures.

Watched Zaia and Biker's podcast that they created for Drexel University. They did a great job sharing Second Life's capabilities for education.

Continued to read the Educator's Digest and the Slrl Digest. As a result of reading these, I often update my PBwiki with information that I've learned.

Camtasia Video Tutorials. I watched almost all of the Camtasia video tutorials so I plan to create a short presentation using Camtasia. I've used Camtasia in the past, but the new version has additional options.

Continued reading materials and reviewing the websites that I've tagged as Second life in Delicious.

My sabbatical is coming to an end. This is the official last week of classes for fall semester.