[Idag] Mondays in SL

[Mazzenga, Suzanne]

Hi, all, 

Wanted to share before I forgot! (was reminded by the mention of
meetings and missed SL meetings)

The meeting Monday in SL was awesome! Thanks to everyone who came out.
We chatted about getting together more, and here's the awesome news...

The sim grand opening Monday night at the Asylum in Second Life was a
HUGE success! So much so that quite a few folks from across the
country/around the world attended (all educators from the Second Life
Educators list and some from IDAG as well). (Right now the sim gets over
70 unique visitors a day!)

We had such a blast discussing techniques used on-ground and online for
teaching and training as well as emerging technologies on the horizon
that we decided why not do it every Monday night, but with entertainment
thrown into the mix?

And so started Manic Mondays @ The Asylum. The Asylum build is HUGE, and
features a movie theater, tons of space for art galleries (which is soon
to be filled, I suspect as artists have gotten word about it and want to
show their stuff in SL), a dance club, and as soon as I can find ones
that work: bumper cars and possibly even mini-golf.

The meetings will run 6pm ET until everyone leaves. The first meeting we
had such a great time chatting that the get-together didn't really end
until about 11pm ET! 

We'll also be working on some building experiments on the huge plot of
land next door which will feature the Switchback Railroad (based on the
original railroad in Mauch Chunk - now Jim Thorpe - PA) by the end of
this year. We tested out and hypothesized about the best way to run the
built-in physics engine in SL to create a more authentic railcar ride
circa 1863 and had a lot of fun testing theories and virtual physics on
a railroad tanker car.

If you can join in on Mondays around 6pm ET in SL (3pm SLT), feel free.
IM me (Xirconnia Morphett) for the Landmark to the Asylum. (As an FYI,
the Asylum is a tribute to the architecture of Eastern State
Penitentiary in Philadelphia, PA with more open spaces and features
original textures that I created from photos I took of buildings across
PA and MD and applied to the build in SL).

Suzi
 

Suzanne Mazzenga 
Instructional Design Specialist 1420 Pine Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102 Phone: Web: 215-670-9421 
http://www.peirce.edu 
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