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UKLA Conference Keynote

Posted in Literature, New Media Literacies, Second Life, digital fiction, tagged , , , , on April 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »

  I am speaking at the 45th UKLA International Conference Making Connections: Building Literate Communities in and Beyond the Classroom. Here’s my abstract – come on along if you are in the UK and interested Inside the mind of Macbeth: Understanding and interpreting literary worlds in a virtual environment. Angela Thomas University of Sydney Virtual Macbeth was [...]

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Our NMC Session – Teaching On the Second Life Stage: Playful Educational Strategies for Serious Purposes

Posted in cyberculture, tagged , , , , , on August 18, 2007 | 4 Comments »

(Note: Thanks to Jokay for taking these snapshots!) Kim Flintoff and I did our NMC Symposium on Creativity in Second Life session this morning. Our session introduced the concept of educational drama and involved setting up a context and doing some role-playing. Here is the abstract again for anybody who missed it: Teaching On the [...]

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Voice in Second Life

Posted in Virtual Worlds, tagged , on August 4, 2007 | 11 Comments »

I guess everybody will be blogging about voice in Second Life over the next few weeks. The latest download released has voice fully enabled, and despite my initial experiences with the trial grid being frustrating, I had an amazingly positive experience with the new version.  Last night I tried it out with friends and fellow [...]

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Global Kids Machinima

Posted in Virtual Worlds, cyberculture, tagged , , , on May 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

This collection of five 30 second Public Service Announcements were created in Teen Second Life by Global Kids after school program, the Virtual Video Project, funded by the MacArthur Foundation and developed with the support of the Museum of the Moving Image. These were the first videos created by the students, to learn the basic [...]

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Proposed Book Cover Design

Posted in Virtual Worlds, cyberculture, digital fiction, personal, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 17, 2007 | 6 Comments »

This is the proposed book cover design for my book!!!  Yay!!!  Finally its *almost* here.  I am very excited now to be this close

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Fashion is an Art

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on March 2, 2007 | 1 Comment »

I’ve fallen in love with these “Devil-wears-Prada” fashionistas from the Second Life fashion house, “House of Lu” and their label: Paper Couture. Their work is a bit edgier than most of the popular SL fashion houses, and whoever is behind it has enough snarkiness to make them amusing. But their work consists of some lovely [...]

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The Convergence of Web Culture and Video Conference

Posted in cyberculture, digital fiction, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Hey… this looks like a FAB conference!!!

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Voice Integration into Second Life

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on February 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I woke up this morning to discover an avalanche of mail about how Linden Labs will be fully integrating voice into Second Life. This is great news for me and other people using SL for delivering lectures, communicating with students, or conducting business in SL. Interestingly though, there has been a lot of discussion about [...]

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Avatar Fashion Artists

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on February 12, 2007 | 5 Comments »

I never stop being surprised at the talented fashion designers for the avatar. The combination of creative skills and technical skills is something I really admire, and the women I know making it a full time business venture are doing very well indeed. Fashioning the avatar is a significant part of SL culture for most [...]

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Four Eyed Monsters

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , on February 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »

I realise this is very old news but while I was away in Tasmania for the Summer, I missed out on a ton of amazing events in Second Life. One of them was the screening of Four Eyed Monsters on Sundance Island in Second Life. Here is a synopsis of the movie: They have four [...]

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Meeting the Teacher’s College Students

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on February 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

This evening (well, 2am) I met up with Charles Kinzer’s class in Second Life. We watched some machinima and I talked about the process of constructing machinima and what it feels like to be a hot leading lady (*laughs*). I even found them some theatre seats for their outdor screenings of Lip Flap and Seriously [...]

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