We’ll be holding our regularly rescheduled newbie session tonight on the Islands of jokaydia and everyone is welcome!

The aim of the Newbie Sessions is to help new residents to learn some of the basic skills of Second Life including:

• Using the Camera Tools
• Using Objects in Second Life
• Creating and Editing Your Avatar
• Landmarks and Notecards
• Communication Tools

We’ll also have time for touring of the Islands of jokaydia, a Q & A session and some inworld exploring. To join us, simply Teleport to Edusquare on the Islands of jokaydia (SLurl).

Event Details:

• Date: Wednesday 8 April 2009
• Time: 8pm AEST / 3am SLT (Check your local time here)
• Location: Edusquare on the Islands of jokaydia (SLurl)
• IM jokay Wollongong for more info or support during the event!

For further information about our regularly scheduled newbie events, check out the jokaydia Wiki or the jokaydia Events Calendar.

We’ve got two events coming up this weekend… hope you can come along and join us!

Saturday 21 March 09 – jokaydia’s Monthly Newbie Session

Today we’ll be meeting at the Newbie Garden for some basic skills and dressing up, followed by a visit to Edusquare to explore the resources we’ve established there. After that we’ll go exploring!

• Time: 2pm, 21 March AEST / 8pm, 20 March SLT (Check your local time here!)
• Meeting at the jokaydia Newbie Garden (SLurl)

Sunday 22 March 09 – jokaydia Roadtrip – Theme: Educational Resources

This week we’ll be exploring a number of spaces that provide resources and information for educators in Second Life, including:

• NMC Learning Sim (SLurl) – includes demo’s, tools and open resources for educators in Second Life
• ISTE’s Educators Orientation and Headquarters (SLurl) – which includes newbie info, resources, and slurls to educational spaces in SL
• International School’s Island (ISI) (SLurl) – Information, Curriculum and Technology Towers – which provide a range of resouces for educators – both specifically SL and relating to ICT in education more generally.
• InfoIsland’s ICT Library (SLurl) – one of the oldest educational resource respositories in SL, it includes a large collection of  tools and scripts that would be useful for instruction (both commercial and “free” tools)
• Tech Virtual Museum’s Interactive Exhibits Design Tutorial (SLurl) – a resource for anyone seeking to create an immersive or virtual exhibit in Second Life

We’ll finish up back at jokaydia’s very own EduSquare (SLurl) for a short debrief and discussion about how we can further develop our resource repository on the Islands of jokaydia!

• Time: 2pm, 22 March AEST / 8pm, 21 March SLT (Check your local time here!)
• Meeting at the jokaydia’s Edusquare (SLurl)

Just when you thought the event planning had hit is peak, it’s time to announce our Free Monthly Newbie Events on the Islands of jokaydia!

These events are designed especially for newbie educators who want to fast-track their Second Life skills. Each Newbie Session will include a range of activitie which help participants to understand:

• Camera Tools
• Using Objects in Second Life
• Creating and Editing Your Avatar
• Landmarks and Notecards
• Communication Tools

We will also plan simple activities and visit to various spaces as part of the event to sure that newbie activies are both informative AND fun! ;)

You can find out more about our Newbie Tours program on the jokaydia Wiki.

Our first event will be held this Wednesday 4th February at 8pm AEST / 1am SLT. Check your local time here.