Live Futures 2020 - This Sunday!

We’ve been planning and scheming this week in the background getting ready for the Live Futures Event which will occur between 12:30pm and 6pm AEST on the Islands of jokaydia! (7pm SLT, 16 Aug. Check Your Local Time here!).

As I’ve previously written - our inworld event is part of the Global Youth Foundation’s real life event - Live Futures 2020: A World of World of Possibility, which is being held at Newtown Square (corner of King St and Enmore Rd opposite Newtown Station).

Our Inworld Program for the day is as follows:

  • 12pm AEST - Welcome and Second Life orientation
  • 12:30pm AEST - Dell Wolfensparger Speaks!
    The fabulous Dell Wolfensparger will share some his work and insights, followed by a tour of his Island in Second Life!
  • 1:30pm - Topophilia - Love of Land: AAEE Gallery Exhibition, Islands of jokaydia
    Birut Zemits and members of the Australian Association for Environmental Education will share their exhibition in Second Life, titled Topophilia - Love of Land
  • 3:00pm AEST - Global Challenges and Sustainable Futures - Cocreation and Collaboration Session
    Janine Cahill and her team will lead an inworld discussion and collaboration session - which will explore some of the issues presented at the real life conference. Help co-create the future!
  • 4:30pm - Dr. Andrew Wallace PhD, Director of the Network of European Technocrats
    Dr Wallace will give a presentation titled Technocracy: Building a New Sustainable Society for a Post Carbon World live in Second Life.

There will also be lots of opportunities to share your thoughts about sustainability, technology and the future, visit interesting spaces in Second Life and meet the residents of the Islands of jokaydia! We’ll also be sharing links, videos, ideas and images from the festival throughout the day!

To join us simply TP to the Islands of jokaydia Meeting Hall (SLurl)

For those who are interested in attending the real-life festival in Newtown, click here to view the program!

August 15, 2008 | Filed Under community, events, jokaydia, livefutures2020 | 5 Comments 

jokaydia Unconference Update!

7 weeks to go till our first annual jokaydia Unconference… and planning is going very well!

Thanks to all who’ve contributed ideas, both via the wiki and via IMs inworld. Please help keep the ideas flowing.

To give you an update on the sessions that have been put forward so far:

On Saturday 27th September we have:

  • Ramapo Islands:A New Dimension in Learning - led by Maggie Marat aka Peggy Sheehy
    Focusing on the process of developing constructivist learning in the virtual world, Sheehy will present the steps her teachers have taken this second year of teaching in Ramapo Islands on Teen Second life to translate their content into the virtual landscape. She will outline the best practices that have evolved as a result and the student responses to this 21st century pedagogical shift.
  • Using a Virtual World to Educate students in Higher Education - with Jass Easterman aka Sue Gregory
    Jass Easterman will take you through how she has been using the virtual world of Second Life with volunteer students enrolled in two education units. She will discuss the types of activities the students have undertaken, what has worked and what hasn’t and what is required of them. This hour long presentation will include anecdotal evidence from students and Jass.
  • Quest Atlantis with slammed Aabye aka Dean Groom and Sapphire Ceawlin aka Angela Cooke
    Exploring Quest Atlantis - How structured virtual worlds can connect students too young to participate in Teen Second Life.
  • Networked Community : Architectures For Part(icipation) - Geon Nasu vs. Limitlessness Infinity.
    Conducted in a disco awith shiny floors and happy hour for at least the first thirty in the door.

On Sunday 28th September we have:

  • How do Second Life activities affect ‘real life’ organizations? - a conversation with a number of representatives from edu organisations and associations, led by HeyJude Jenns aka Judy O’Connell
    Join us for a discussion about the possibilities for SL to lead empowerment and change in educational professional associations. What lead should they take in the education community? Why?

As you can see, already a fascinating mix of events!

We’ll be holding an Unconference planning sessions inworld soon - stay tuned for more updates! In the meantime, if you’d like to share your work or lead a discussion add your name to the wiki now!

August 9, 2008 | Filed Under community, events, jokaydia, news, unconference | 3 Comments 

jokaydia Unconference Planning Begins!

Planning has begun for the First Annual jokaydia Unconference, which we will be holding from the 27-28th September 2008!

You are invited to get involved. Facilitate a session, exhibit your work or help with the event management!

For more information visit the jokaydia Unconference Wiki @ http://jokaydia.wikispaces.com/jokaydiaUnconference.

We will be holding an inworld planning meeting shortly, but in the meantime your feedback, contributions and suggestions are welcome! Add comments below or add your proposed session to the Unconference Session plan!

July 20, 2008 | Filed Under community, events, jokaydia, news, unconference | 1 Comment 

A Special Audience with Glyph Graves

Many of our residents know the amazing SL artist Glyph Graves via the creatures he has provided us on the Islands of jokaydia, and his work on jokaydia II in the early months of 2008.

Sooo.. I am very happy to invite everyone to join me for a special visit to Glyph’s latest exhibition at the Russian Archipelago tomorrow night, for a special audience with the artist!

Titled ‘Changes’, Glyph’s latest works are intricate, beautiful and organic and a real must see! The exhibition opened last weekend and will close on the 12 August 2008. AND.. he has kindly agreed to meet visitors from the jokaydia Community at the Russian Archipelago (SLurl) at 8:30pm AEST on Thurs 17 July 2008 (3:30amSLT, Check your local time here)

A very special thanks to Glyph for finding the time to share with us - what a special opportunity! Seeya there!

July 16, 2008 | Filed Under community, events, fun, interesting places to visit, news, slart | 4 Comments 

Mashups Presentation - featuring the jokaydia Blog!

I’m doing a presentation on content mashups to create spaces for learning today as part of an Australian Flexible Learning Framework Online event.

And, as the jokaydia Blog features heavily in this presentation, I thought I’d also share it here!

The slides include some info about the types of tools Im using here to create our Web 2.0 enabled, 2D presence.

Maybe in a future post, I’ll write about how I’m mashing up some of this content to share it inworld in our 3D presence as well! ;)

Enjoy!

SlideShare | View | Upload your own

Spot the cameo appearance by one of our very own jokaydians in the examples section. Thanks, Henny!! ;)

July 9, 2008 | Filed Under community, education, jokaydians, news | 2 Comments 

Are you interested in Environmental Education!??

Im really excited to announce that the Australian Association for Environmental Education are holding some events on the Islands of jokaydia over the next few days! If you’re interested in art, the environment or environmental education, then this one is for you! ;)

The AAE’s 15th Biennial Conference in Darwin this year, and has some fascinating themes:

Communities make the system

In a time of rapid change, how can people who work in early childhood services, schools, tertiary institutions, and government and non-government organisations cooperate to make the system that we are part of more sustainable, and quickly?

Collaborative projects across our communities are a primary focus of this conference. Participants will highlight successes, difficulties and lessons learned from dealing with hot topics such as global warming, water and waste management, energy options, fire ecology, ecological footprint management and biodiversity in all sectors..

<Transcultural communication

For Australia’s diverse population, it is important to integrate global, particularly Indigenous and Asian, perspectives on how environmental education is practiced in our region. This means promoting skills that develop eco-literacy and care for the environment across cultures and languages; land and seascapes.

Indigenous-led field studies, a conference art space and an environmental art exhibition will support perspectives about how to actively communicate trans-culturally..

<Beyond rhetoric - Improving our capacity

AAEE is comprised of diverse communities, and each aims to improve current practice in environmental education. Much of the Association’s national effort is through (and supports) the National Action Plan, through the focus of this conference and through many other workshops and training conducted by state and territory chapters and special interest groups - Early Childhood, Teachers and Teacher Educators, Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, Transformative Learning, Young People and Citizenship, Research, and Vocational Education and Training.

Innovative and effective professional development approaches will be the highlight of work in this theme.

As part of this year’s event the AAEE also contracted me to help them to create an exhibition of works from the real life Conference Exhibition, and it has been a pleasure to transform the jokaydia Gallery space into a Conference Venue for the event.

We have also added some special enviro-features to the jokaydia Gallery - including water collection, worm farming, composting and solar resources from the Big Switch. I hope that it demonstrates some of the wonderful ways we are able to embed incidental learning opportunities into SL environments.

The exhibition is described by the organisers as:

Topophilia: Love of Land

Where is the landscape that gives you a sense of belonging; the place that you love and care for? These works explore emotional responses to being outside of the urban space; visual responses to the ‘natural’ world in which we find ourselves. Does this love of place help us protect it?

Artists in paint, print and photography are invited to submit work on this theme to be selected for display in the Real Life (RL) Charles Darwin University Gallery space during a the Australian Assocation for Environmental Education’s 15th Biennial conference, held in Darwin, Australia from 9-11 July 2008.

A selection of images have also been displayed here to provide a virtual meeting space for both conference participants and Second Life residents.

The exhibition contains some beautiful works, from a whole range of wonderful artists including: Linda Ford, Strider, Birut Zemits, David Rolfe, Sarah Pirrie, John du Feu, Jodie Wilson, Alison Worsnop, Daphne Cazalet, Aly de Groot, Dorothyt Napangardi, Marina Strocchi, Frank Clancy, Weaver Jack, Judy Watson, Mary Meribida, Helicopter Joe Tjungurrayi, Nabiru (Harry) Bulleen, and Ningie Nanala Nangala.

Over the next few days all jokaydians are welcome to participate, by visiting the Topophilia Exhibition. You can teleport directly via this SLurl.

Additionally, the AAEE will be staging a couple of mixed reality events where RL participants and SL participants will have an opportunity to connect:

Topophilia -Exhibition Launch in second Life

Meeting at the jokaydia Gallery inworld to discussion Conference Posters and the Gallery Space

Indigenous Print-Making Process Discussion in the Central Gallery Space

Artists discuss their practice

Special thanks thanks to Amelie Tarantal aka Birut Zemits for all her work in coordinating this special exhibition with the AAEE community, and also to jokaydians Pandora Kurranjong and Sapphire Caewlin for assisting with the facilitation of the events!

Seeya at Topophilia! ;)

July 9, 2008 | Filed Under artgallery, community, education, events, jokaydia, news | 1 Comment 

Under Construction - Bloggers Tower!

The amazing Azzura Supplee has been busy on jokaydia II this morning!

I asked her to give the shared spaces on jokaydia II an udpate and refresh, to create some more useful tools and spaces for our residents to share and meet in.. and omg, has she achieved that and more!

If you visit jokaydia II now, you’ll find Az busily working on our new Bloggers Tower (complete with warning lights for our paragliders and balloon riders!) - which will provide a home for our resident bloggers to display their sites, and also a space to meet to listen to podcasts and vodcasts! I’ll post a SLurl and update when the space is complete.. but I couldn’t wait to share it!

Thanks Az! Your contributions to our Island have been amazing in the short time you’ve been working with us. You are awesome! ;)

July 5, 2008 | Filed Under community, jokaydia, news, resources | 2 Comments 

Last Days of the First Annual jokaydia PhotoComp Exhibition

jokaydia Art Gallery

A quick reminder to everyone to get over to the jokaydia Art Gallery to see our First Annual Community Photocomp exhibition before it closes on Friday 4th July 2008.

The gorgeous images that were contributed by our community members will be archived to make way for an exciting event happening next week! But I’ll post more on that soon….

In the meantime - TP to the jokaydia Art Gallery on jokaydia II to check it out!

For exhibitors… if you would like a virtual copy of your artwork as displayed - please email or IM me by Wed 9th July 2008!

And a very special thanks again to everyone who contributed! You can also check out the submission via the jokaydia Flickr group - tagged with jokaydiaphotocomp08.

July 2, 2008 | Filed Under artgallery, community, jokaydia, news | Leave a Comment 

The Online Therapy Institute in Second Life!

Welcoming DeeAnna and Kate!

I’m very excited to be welcoming one of our new residents to the Islands of jokaydia! The Online Therapy Institute has just opened up on jokaydia II and is a very tranquil place to visit!

DeeAnna Merz Nagel aka DeeAnna Madfes in Second Life and I have created an office and virtual meeting space which will provide a Second Life base for the work that she is doing with Kate Anthony at the Online Therapy Institute in real life, where they explore online counseling and supervision and teaching and facilitating online counseling and supervision.

To quote their website:

The Insitute is designed for clinicians and organizations who wish to enrich their knowledge about online counseling, clinical supervision and the impact of technology on mental health. The Institute, founded by Kate Anthony and DeeAnna Merz Nagel is a think tank for all issues related to e-therapy.

You can also read DeeAnna’s blog post about the new space here - where she says:

So, now that Kate and DeeAnna have a place to perch inworld, we will be creating new ways to reach out to clients/consumers and professionals about online counseling! We plan to provide discussions and workshops to members on a regular basis after the completion of our book projects. So when you visit us, please join the Online Therapy Institute group!!

Welcome DeeAnna and Kate - I think your work in Second Life will be fascinating, and I can’t wait to read your upcoming books!!

Visit the Online Therapy Institute on the Islands of jokaydia to find out more!

July 1, 2008 | Filed Under community, jokaydians, news | 3 Comments 

Mashing Up Tech to Connect with NECC!

We had a fab meetup tonight with the jokaydian NECCers, and it was a priveledge to hear Konrad talk about his work around Blogging Communities in the Classroom again. His work is so inspiring!

Equally inspiring was the way the jokaydians managed to pull off a last minute plan with style. I am so proud of HeyJude, slammed, Al and Konrad for flying the jokaydia flag high and walking the talk of our community by sharing and then sharing some more! It’s been great to follow their journey over at NECC, but even cooler to be a part of it like we did tonight.

About 15 avatars dropped in to Bar jokaydia click here (SLurl) to hear Konrad’s presentation, and with a combination of audio and slide wrangling from HeyJude and the Ustream that Will Richardson was providing, I think everyone managed to get a decent audio stream. And of course, there was a great back channel chat going on in both Ustream and at jokaydia. You can view some pictures of the inworld part of the session here.

Ya gotta love technology - from my living room I am able to connect with some amazing people! A Huuuuge thanks again Konrad, Judy, Dean and Al! You are all stars! ;)

Thanks to Will Richardson for the Ustream too - which means everyone who couldn’t make it can still get a taste of NECC!

Web TV provided by Ustream

July 1, 2008 | Filed Under community, education, events, jokaydians, news | 1 Comment 

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