On Friday I had an opportunity to participate in a number of virtual sessions of the Australasian Virtual Worlds Workshop held in Second Life. The sessions took place on the Islands of jokaydia and the beautiful Second Life campus of Swinburne University on Koala Island.

I managed to take lots of pictures and even some video. Unfortunately, I was not able to capture the audio. Below you will find two machinima pieces from the event and also a flickr stream of all the pictures from the jokaydian Fotopool.

Keynote address by Chris Collins, Director of Enterprise Business Systems of Linden Lab
(no audio):

(Link to the original file on blip.tv)

Some shots of the panel sessions after Chris’ keynote:

(Link to the original file on blip.tv)

… and here are all the tagged pictures from the event:

As some of you may know, I have been away since July 1 traveling with Teachers Without Borders – Canada. One of the last videos that I filmed before my trip was of the new sim of what was then known as jokaydia III. Back then, this new area of the jokaydian Estate was fairly empty and I made the video to document the addition of the new sim. I had no idea that in only three months the landscape would change so much as to be almost unrecognizable!

When I logged on a couple of days ago – for the first time since July 1st – and saw how much the area had changed, I knew that I just had to document this fantastic growth of our community.

I finished editing the new video just a few minutes ago and I hope that you will take some time to watch both the first video (jokaydia THEN) and the new one (jokaydia NOW) to see how much jokaydia has grown in just over three months. Enjoy!

jokaydia THEN (June 4th, 2008):

jokaydia NOW (September 10th, 2008):