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!

Image by Kerryank

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

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!

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!

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

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

• Time: Wed 9th  July 2008, 6:30pm AEST ( 1:30am SLT, Check Your Local Time Here)
• Location: jokaydia Gallery (SLurl)

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

• Time: Thurs 10th  July 2008, 10:30am AEST ( 5:30pm 9/7 SLT, Check Your Local Time Here)
• Location: jokaydia Gallery (SLurl)

Indigenous Print-Making Process Discussion in the Central Gallery Space

• Time: Thurs 10th  July 2008, 11:30am AEST ( 6:30pm 9/7 SLT, Check Your Local Time Here)
• Location: jokaydia Gallery (SLurl)

Artists discuss their practice

• Time: Thurs 10th  July 2008, 12:00pm AEST ( 7pm 9/7 SLT, Check Your Local Time Here)
• Location: jokaydia Gallery (SLurl)

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!

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!

moar funny pictures

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!

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.

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

Blog of Proximal Development - authored by Konrad March

Daneel Ariantho’s digital log - authored by Daneel Ariantho

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

KerryJ’s Neotenous Tech - authored by Pandora Kurrajong

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

Web 2.0 in PBL High School - authored by slammed Aabye