Joining Second Life Community Convention – SLCC08

Mariis4 Comments

I have to break “the vaction silence”, since I’ve just been granted permission to participate in the Second Life Community Convention in Tampa, Florida in the beginning of september :-)))))))))))))))))

I’m just so thrilled, excited and relieved that my bosses granted me this trip. Being a PhD-student can be quite a lonesome endeavor and I’m really looking forward to meeting up with other avatars both on a social and on a professional level.

Unlike many other SL researchers, I don’t have an island of my own, where I can experiment, and – even though I’m conduction a Action Research-project on my own teaching – my interest is also in looking on other peoples educational designs, which means that my project hopefully will be based on multiple cases.

I’m quite confident that the SLCC08 will give me an opportunity to meet competent and relevant people, who might be interested in discussing and documenting their educational thoughts and designs with me both at the conference and later on in-world :-)

/Mariis, now in an even better vacation mood!

I’m now an official HUDslinger :-)

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Looking at my 3 previous posts you may wonder what’s going on! On Fleep Tuque’s blog I found a great tip about the use of a bloghud in-world.


Bloghud.com

Wearing a bloghud enables you to send text messages or postcards, incl. text and Slurls from inside SL out to your blog(s) of choice.

As Fleep points out:

Many faculty are asking students to report on their experiences in Second Life, either by writing essays or blog posts, and it can be very tricky and time consuming to take a snapshot, save it to disk, re-size it and convert it to JPG, upload it to Flickr, and then create a blog post about whatever it was that you saw or experienced. If you also want to include a SLurl or link to the location, that’s another step that requires you to flip back into SL to copy and paste the SLurl, etc.

The BlogHUD does all of these steps for the user once it is setup and configured properly.


Mariis wearing the Hud – you can change the location of the Hud …

I’m amazed at how easy it is to use – you simply wear it, type /9 and then your text .. or longer text write a notecard. Simple, huh ?

Thanks to Koz Farina for creating this great tool/toy :-)

And thanks to Fleep for this great tip – you can read her easy-to-follow instructions here

/Mariis