October 24th and 25th: This is great networking opportunity for students and college representatives to meet in Second Life to exchange information, promote a school, and create connections. It will be organized like a traditional college fair with booths and tables for the various colleges. Above being able … Read More →
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Creating Seamless Textures in Photoshop for Second Life
Tired of paying for textures? Why not make your own? This is how to do it using Adobe Photoshop. Have you ever found a texture you love, but then when you try to tile the pattern it looks plain awful? When textures are created seamlessly you … Read More →
Sculpty: with or with out salt? Using Blender
As I have complained about before, I find myself getting more and more aggrevated with building the FIT campus. I have torn down so many buildings and amphitheaters trying to find the sweet spot between function and design. Many of the educational sites are great in offering freebies … Read More →
RabbitStats — Who goes there?
Who’s spending time at your campus while you are not there? I am sure like everyone working with school funding in Second Life, my budget needs to be minimal. Someone turned me onto RabbitStats. Very easy to set up and sends me a nightly email telling me … Read More →
Pleasure and Pain — Building a SL Campus
Incorporating virtual worlds into traditional educational environments has been under the radar at the college that I work for. To be honest it has been avoided because it is so difficult to provide Administrators with the precious “metrics” needed to gain support and funding. I just … Read More →
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NMC Symposium for the Future in Second Life
2009 Symposium for the Future IT is time for another Virtual Symposia by the NMC (New Media Consortium). The symposium will compose of several diologs on pushing the envelope of technology and the potential impacts on issues of global significance. Specifically the topics will cover … Read More →