Yet another jokaydia Meetup!

kerryj, annabel and jokay

YAY! I got to meetup with the lovely Pandora and the gorgeous Annabel today in Sydney, and it was a total pleasure! We are very lucky to have such strong connections within our community.

And look! slammed came too! ;)

slammed and jokay

Images by Kerryank

July 28, 2008 | Filed Under fun, jokaydians | 2 Comments 

Live Futures 2020: A World of Possibilities!

I am VERY excited to announce that the Islands of jokaydia is a major partner in Live Futures 2020: A World of Possibility, a fantastic event being held in Sydney as part of National Science Week 2008!

The festival aims to:

  • Explore the future with young people, futurists, climate experts, scientists, artists, designers, technolgists, film-makers, performers.
  • Create the future together. Workshops, interactive forums, exploration and expression spaces.

During the event, participants will explore a range of ideas, themes, issues and questions:

What kind of future do you want to live in? How will current technologies develop sustainable futures for all the world’s people. What do nanotech, biotech, robotics and artificial intelligence really offer? How do these help us solve health, food, climate challenges, water and other resources and sustainability?

Real-life participants will:

  • Explore virtual worlds! Design collaboration spaces for Global Youth Futures in Vastpark and be the first to populate it! Hear from experts, futurists and artists coming in from all around the world via the Islands of jokaydia in Second Life.
  • Join talks on new cool things on the internet and share yours, an “unconference”, a “twitterfest”, Scinema - award-winning science cinema,  the portable film festival (more portable than ever), alternative fuel cars, “how-tos” on alternative energy sources and reversing and reducing global warming.
  • Explore the universe with the World Wide Telescope.
  • See a printer that can print your cup and bowl. 3D printing that will change the face of manufacturing and impacts of transport carbon forever.
  • Take a team challenge, or set the teams a challenge, see how they address issues of the future. Give your answers and judge the winners!

Virtual participants will be able to join us on jokaydia to hear from futurists, artists, scientists, designers, architects, engineers, film-makers and technologists; and connect to parts of the real-life event including the MiniBarCamp and the portable film-festival.

SO - if you’re anywhere near Sydney, come and visit me at the event on Sunday August 17 at Newtown Square (corner of King Street and Enmore Road opposite Newtown Station) or take part inworld on the Islands of jokaydia!

I’ll be posting further details and information via jokaydia channels shortly, or you can find out more via the Global Youth Futures website! I hope you can join us for this exciting event. 

Help co-create the future!

July 25, 2008 | Filed Under education, events, fun, jokaydia, livefutures2020, news | Leave a Comment 

jokaydian Meeting

Image by Kerryank

Yet another RL-SL meetup… this time it’s jokaydians Al, Dewi and Pandora! Love the happy grins!

July 17, 2008 | Filed Under fun, jokaydians | Leave a 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 

Im in ur….

jokaydia resident, and geek-week girl Pandora Kurrajong made a fab Lolcat today… GO VOTE!.. how cool would it be to see jokaydia on the Lolz! hehe ;)

funny pictures
moar funny pictures

July 8, 2008 | Filed Under fun, jokaydians | Leave a Comment 

Line Dancing at ISTE

There’s a huge crowd over at the PBS/TCEA Party at ISTE right now….. go join them for some virtual line dancing!

PBS/TCEA Party

Congratulations Joie and team… what a great way to kick of NECC!

June 20, 2008 | Filed Under events, fun | 1 Comment 

An invitation from PBS/TCEA in Second Life….

joie.jpg

Howdy Ya’ll!

On June 19 at 6pm SLT (check your local time here), put on your Cowboy hats and boots and join the Texas Computer Education Association (TCEA) and PBS TeacherLine of Texas, your Texas ambassadors, as we welcome you to NECC in San Antonio, Texas 2008!

We are going to fire up the barbeque, put on some country western for a little line dancing, and get real crazy with a bull-riding contest.

Yeehah!! So, come on down! Click here to teleport to the event.

June 19, 2008 | Filed Under events, fun, jokaydians | Leave a Comment 

New Venue: Bar jokaydia!

 Bar jokaydia!

Over the past few days, Azzura and I have been working on a new social space for the islands. I’ve named it Bar jokaydia!

Az and Jo working on Bar jokaydia!

You can view some great images from Konrad here too.

The aim of this space was to create a fun and engaging place to meetup for informal chats and impromtu parties. We will also hold some fireside chats in the space shortly.

Al and jokay @ Bar jokaydia!

Visit Bar jokayida here (SLurl) … and keep an eye out for the launch party happening very soon!!

June 10, 2008 | Filed Under community, fun, interesting places to visit, jokaydia, news | Leave a Comment 

News from jokaydia Waters!

More great news! Above you can see images of our new Open Space sim, jokaydia Waters. This space has been setup to provide us with some more natural, open areas - and of course space for sailing and paragliding! ;)

Openspace sims are designed for light use and are sometimes referred to as void sims. They are not designed for heavy or residential use, but are fantastic for creating natural open areas. You’ll see our forest and mountain tops develop over the next few days.

June 9, 2008 | Filed Under fun, jokaydia, news | 4 Comments 

The Brains Trust has gathered…


And we’re all learning a bit more about scripting in Second Life, as the amazing Gnu works with Corwin to make an interactive resource using the open source Builder’s Buddy scripts.  You can check out his tutorial video here.

It’s so great to see this kind of networked learning happening on our Islands. Thanks for sharing Gnu!

posted by jokay Wollongong on jokaydia II using a blogHUD : [blogHUD permalink]

May 26, 2008 | Filed Under bloghud, fun, jokaydia, jokaydians | Leave a Comment 

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