EduSquare Under Construction… SLurls, Please!!?

As you can see, I’m in the midst of an update of our Edusquare Space on the Islands of jokaydia!

Edusquare has been created to provide a meeting point and resource space for educators and others who are working in Second Life. It is surrounded by our resident’s spaces and provides several resources including the Educational Landmarks Wall, which provides landmarks to a wide range of educational projects in Second Life.

The plan for this space is to extend the tools and resources setup here to create a more useful collection of how-tos, newbie resources and landmark givers. The aim is to help visitors  to quickly gain an understand of some of the educational activties going on inworld, and to connect with others in Second Life.

And now I need your help!

If you represent an educational project inworld, or you have a favourite educational space in Second Life, PLEASE include a comment and SLurl below so I can update our Educational Landmarks Wall. This tool has been used extensively by both our informal visitors and tour groups and is a great way to promote your projects and draw new visitors to your space.

To visit Edusquare use this SLurl - but wear your hardhat. Construction will be ongoing over the next few days! ;)

August 7, 2008 | Filed Under education, jokaydia, resources | 2 Comments 

New Space on jokaydia - Sailing Club!

jokaydia residents Patric and Henny have been requesting a dock between their two parcels on jokaydia III…. So I present to them.. and to everyone else:

The jokaydia Sailing Club!

Complete with boats to sail around in, and some nice atmospheric sound effects, you are welcome to use this space for informal get-togethers or small workshops, discussions and classes with your colleagues and students!

Visit the jokaydia Sailing Club on jokaydia III (SLurl). Happy Sailing! ;)

July 8, 2008 | Filed Under jokaydia, news, resources | Leave a 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 

jokaydians Blogging! - Part 1

I thought I’d point to some of the fabulous blogs that are being written by the jokaydians, as they all include lots of information about our residents and their areas of professional practice.

So here goes Part 1 of jokaydians Blogging!… Commence feeding your RSS reader now! I’ll post Part 2 next week. ;)

Azzura’s Rants - authored by the amazing Azzura Supplee

Azzura\'s Blog

Blog of Proximal Development - authored by Konrad March

Konrad\'s Blog

Daneel Ariantho’s digital log - authored by Daneel Ariantho

Daneel\'s Blog

Hey Jude - Learning in an online world - authored by HeyJude Jenns

Heyjude Blog

KerryJ’s Neotenous Tech - authored by Pandora Kurrajong

Pandora\'s Blog

Marlon J. Manrique: Resistance is Futile - authored by marlonj Meyers

Marlonj\'s Blog

Web 2.0 in PBL High School - authored by slammed Aabye

slammed\'s Blog

July 2, 2008 | Filed Under jokaydians, resources | 1 Comment 

Pulsar Project Headquarters

Pulsar Project Build

marlonj Myers has been working really hard over the last week or two to get his Pulsar Project underway, and I’m very excited to see the new Pulsar Project Headquarters starting to take shape! marlonj has created a really interesting building - with a great open space for meetings and discussions with the students that will joining him inworld soon.

Additional to the ‘bricks and mortar’ in Second Life, marlonj has been doing a great job of recording the whole process via the Pulsar Project Blog and also the HiperGalaxia Moodle space, where he is setting up all his course support materials. You’ll find some fantastic stuff there, including a description of how marlonj made his first book, the management documents he’s creating and a great YouTube video which gives an overview of what marlonj is aiming to achieve (although you’ll need your spanish!).

Most exciting, marlonj has completed the course outline for the pilot course he is about to commence, and has provided it in both Spanish and English, which is a fantastic way of sharing it with all our jokaydia residents.

Pulsar Project Course Outline

You can view the course outline here.

Congratulations marlonj! I am so impressed with how quickly you have created the Pulsar Project and this growing collection of resources! Please let us know how we can continue to support you and your students! ;)

June 9, 2008 | Filed Under education, jokaydians, pulsar project, resources | 1 Comment 

The Pulsar Project

The Pulsar Project

One of the great things about having more space on the jokaydia Estate is that it gives us the ability to support additional projects. So I’m very happy to announce that one of our wonderful residents marlonj Myers has started a great new project on one of our new little Islands on jokaydia III!

The Pulsar Project: Second Life Tools for Educators is focussed on identifying and locating existing tools that are useful for teachers and students in Second Life, and marlonj will also be creating some new tools, once he’s identified areas of need.

I am really excited about this project, as marlonj brings a wealth of programming skills and experience to the project. He has also agreed to post some blog posts to keep everyone up to date on what he’s up to so stay tuned!

To visit the Pulsar Project inworld go to: http://slurl.com/secondlife/jokaydia%20III/210/69/62/ or to keep up to date on marlonj’s progress, visit the Pulsar Project Blog where there is already a wealth of information about the aims and objectives of the project.

June 4, 2008 | Filed Under community, education, jokaydians, news, pulsar project, resources | 1 Comment 

jokaydia Community Wikispace

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As we continue to develop projects on the Islands of jokaydia, the need for a community space where people can publish and share content has become more urgent. There is so much great stuff coming out of projects being undertaken by jokaydia Residents and their communities, and it seems a great shame not to be capturing and sharing what you’re all up to. So…. I’ve created the new jokaydia Community Wikispace.

This wiki is completely open, and all visitors and residents are welcome to contribute to it. You’ll see I’ve kicked things off by setting up some pages and information - but I’m really looking forward to seeing what the community comes up with together.. so get your wiki on and start sharing! ;)

One of the first things we’ll be using the Wiki for will be documenting and tracking the development of the EduSquare space on the Islands of jokaydia. I encourage everyone to visit the space and contribute your ideas on the wiki here.

May 1, 2008 | Filed Under community, jokaydia, jokaydians, news, resources | Leave a Comment 

New Resources from Gnu and Leah!

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A big thanks to our good friends Leah Planer and Gnu Curry, who have provided us with some fantastic shapes, skins, clothes, hair and other goodies for both men and women.

These are super cool collections of all sorts of handy schwag that Leah and Gnu have put together to distribute to the new residents that they support and mentor. They have been kind enough to box them up and send over copies for inclusion in our newbie garden - so all our new residents can get some groovy stuff to play with as they learn to dress up their avatars. You will find the new resources in the jokaydia Newbie Garden (Slurl).

Leah and Gnu are two of the most helpful residents I know, and spend lots of their time supporting newbies and sharing their knowledge. You rock guys! On behalf of all us jokaydians - thanks so much! ;) If you’d like to visit them, you’ll find their space in SL @ Gnu and Leah’s Place (Slurl) where they’ve got even more groovy stuff for you to check out!

April 22, 2008 | Filed Under community, fun, news, resources | Leave a Comment