Machinima of Second Life - An Animated Short Video

Here's a Fun video that shows off our historical learning Sim in Second Life:

http://inclinemedia.tv/comm    If you play it, allow time to fully load!



In case your looking for me as an actor, I look like this:

And ...

My Avatar's Done a Bunk!

My Avatar Escaped

In my last post I talked about the idea that when Virtual Worlds go into true 3-D, one presenter said "The Avatar will escape from the box!"  

Apparently, my avatar was listening, because the next day he became invisible - first all that was visible was some clothes, hair, and shoes.  As I tried to fix him, more of him disappeared, until sometimes he was completely invisible - other times just hair floating around, other times two eyeballs were swiveling about (creepy, no?)  Kind of a new twist on "the smile without the cat" as in Alice in Wonderland.

About four hours of fiddling with controls and looking at web pages for advice did no good.  This morning . . .

Slanguages 2010 Virtual Conference

SL LANGUAGES 2010:

Having written a short paper for partial completion of Dr. Partridge’  “Research River” project on the topic of language instruction in Virtual Worlds, I decided to do additional work exploring the topic.  One opportunity to find out more came about when an internet search produced a link to the SLanguages 2010 Second Life Conference being held Oct.15-17 2010.  With the encouragement of Dr. Lenze