New views at Marlboro in jokadiajGRID

Almost forgot to post this.

New views at Marlboro Island in jokadia. Where did this eagles nest come from? Ah Gibson!!! I guessed and as it turned out it was him!

What do you call it? I don't think he as named the outlook yet.

Nice Views!

This is Laura and I on the giant cheeseburger! We also tried to get our gestures going; might need a little more time!

That is all for now..

Patricia

Virtual Trade Fair: May 26 at the NCTAFE Conference Center in jokaydiaGRID

What was this room called? It's a disco solar system!
No, it is the Mystery Box. 

Virtual Trade Fair

On Sunday May 26
at the NCTAFE Conference Center in jokaydiaGRID

 You walk inside..

The event allowed the NCTAFE students to deliver their presentations. Jennifer Stevenson gave a presentation about the benefits of Social Networking for business in a virtual world. They provide the service of assisting companies in creating an effective online social presence; this included the virtual worlds.

Attendees where able to use tokens to purchase services from various booths at the event. Students were available to answer questions about those products.

Very interesting project and the students are working hard to hone the virtual presentations.

I would like to come back again with our class, and interact more with the students at another event in the future. 

Regards to the sponsors! 

Thanks for reading!
Patricia

Convert your pic to a cartoon image

Just for fun!
You can convert a picture to a cartoon, or morph facial features. Fun for kids like me. :D

Cartoon.Pho.to





All for now!

First class in jokadia, and we have guests!

This past Sunday we had our first class in jokadiaGRID and Jo Kay Wollongong, who happens to be the creator of this virtual world, came to speak with us. Also, technotool tim also came to share with us some of the things that he has been doing in North Country at jokadia with his class to promote learning.

One thing that technotool tim said that stuck with me the most was that the kids who might not normally like writing in class, or felt a bit bored would become animated in the virtual classroom.

Next class I will be sure to keep a log. ;)

The Pedagogy Ball is wise

Back in the Pixel area there are free items we can use and I had found an object call "Wisdom Ball" which once deployed will display wise quotes when you click on it.

I changed some of the attributes, applied a texture called "faerie fire", and made it somewhat transparent. The texture now appears to be moving around inside it as though the thing were alive. You can't see that here but you get the idea. It occurred to me that I could call it "Pedagogy Ball" and we can put statements about pedagogical principles in the list. It goes along with our purpose, and it glows! I put a couple George Seimens quotes in the list. ;) The Marlboro group owns Pedagogy Ball and I hope people feel free to add quotes!

I would like to learn more about constructing objects and applying scripts to them. How do you carve into these basic shapes? Hopefully I will be caught up with my work soon. (again)

TLVW at jokadiaGRID

It is Spring 2013 and I am enrolled in MAT616.SP13 which is "Teaching and Learning in Virtual Worlds: Games and Simulations" at Marlboro College Graduate School. I shall simply refer to it as TLVW in the future. This place is dedicated to "education and the arts"; certainly a good thing.

I am Minit Sands in the virtual world known as jokadiaGRID. It is a 3d world where one can interact with other souls who are in reality sitting at their computers.

My classmates have widely varying experiences with this type of digital interaction from no experience to a great deal of experience. This might be the most interesting part of the journey. How to express yourself as an avatar is something of a topic when suddenly you can change how you appear to others so utterly and completely. This can become an existential question riddled with meaning regarding age, gender and one's appearance. Most avatars do seem to be young and beautiful! I usually start out with something approximating my real life self and then dress that up for a bit for flair.

Here are pics of Minit as she evolved over the last few days. According to my in-world profile Minit was actually born in jokadiaGRID on 3/28/2013. I wanted to check the place out before class started.

This last screenshot was me in Second Life. I like my corduroys and this hairdo. ;)

The truth is that I do like tweaking the avatar! I try to have fun with it while I certainly have noticed my own reactions to the possible choices available and how we might present ourselves virtually. What does it mean, does it matter?

That is all for now.