Apr 292008

Bit late this week, but here we go with episode three of our roundup of events worth checking out in Second Life, here’s what’s coming up! And remember – I’m listing these events based on Australian Eastern Standard Time (because that’s where I am!)… but SL Time and ‘Check Your Local Time’ links are also listed in each entry.
Wed 30 April, 11am AEST: ISTE Speaker Series:Andy Fundinger (SL: Ciemaar Flintoff) on integrating external servers into Second Life builds
- SL TIME: 6pm SLT. Check your local time here.
- LOCATION: ISTE Island Bandshell (SLurl)
- WHAT: Perhaps for the more geeky amongst us, Andy will be discussing several of his projects including the ‘Literature Factory’ and integration of advanced features using scripting.
- REQUIREMENTS: This will be a text chat.
Wed 30 April, 11pm AEST: SLOODLE 101
- SL TIME: 6am SLT. Check your local time here.
- LOCATION: Sandbox in “virtuALBA”
- WHAT: This class is aimed at anybody who wants to know how to configure and use the Sloodle tools (teachers and administrators)
. Everyone is welcome. - MORE INFO: http://www.sloodle.org/
- NOTES: This session also repeats from 2pm SLT.
Thurs 1 May, 12:00pm AEST : Conversation Cafe in Second Life
- SL TIME: 7pm – 8:30pm SLT. Check your local time here.
- LOCATION: Peacemaker Institute on Commonwealth Islands (SLurl)
- WHAT: Have you explored other identities in SL? (gender, ethnicity, skin color, transhuman, animal, historical, etc) If so, did your own sense of (or solidification of) identity shift at all? What insights arose?
- NOTES: Check out the ‘Sense of Self’ video that’s been distributed in preparation for the event.
And dont forget!….. May Day on the Islands of jokaydia! on Thurs 1 May at 9pm AEST. (4:00am SLT). You can check your local time here. To join in, meet us on jokaydia beach! (SLurl).
If you would like to suggest an event, please drop details in the comments or email jokay Wollongong.