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Change: Confirm your participation by emailing kfitz@saclaw.org. Include your avatar name, and whether you are a member of AALL. Only confirmed participants will receive office space/stipend.Sign up for a Second Life account at http://www.secondlife.comor: (Recommended) Sign up through the New Media Consortium (NMC), which offers a very accessible orientation.
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Change: Our grant includes some funding to hire builders or scripters based on the needs of participants' projects. During the first week of July, I will evaluate the ideas I've received in consultation with my builder/scripter to estimate pricing.If there are more projects than
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Change: Scripting 101: Live speaker and/or tutorial. “Scripting” refers to programming items to perform tasks such as lighting up, rotating, or displaying a series of slides.
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Change: "Joining Second Life is like moving to a new country because it is a social place and it has its own culture. It has its
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Change: Demonstration will assume participants have completed the minimum orientation and will provide more detailed info about navigating, communication, customizing avatar appearance, and brief overview of
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Change: Our grant includes some funding to hire builders or scripters based on the needs of participants' projects. During the first week of July, I will evaluate the ideas I've received in consultation with my builder/scripter to estimate pricing.If there are more projects than
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Change: classes, as well as social events and other meetings, at: http://infoisland.org/calendar/___________________________________________________Unit 2: Second Life CultureIntroduction to the history and cultures of Second Life in general, and the legal and library communities in particular (1 hour minimum; includes tour).Tutorial/Activity:An annotated list of
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Change: There are frequent classes offered in Second Life to help you familiarize yourself with the world and the navigation and building tools available. The Info Archipelago group frequently offers "getting started" classes. You can find more info on upcoming classes at: http://infoisland.org/calendar/___________________________________________________Unit 2: Second Life CultureIntroduction
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Change: (I will demonstrate the office and sign at the Saturday, April 19 meeting or by appointment. Go ahead and get in touch with me if you won't be able to make the Saturday meeting.)Additional web resources:There are many video based tutorials available
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Change: The discussions will take place periodically during the workshop based on demand and speaker availability. They will build on the material in the tutorials and readings so they should be done around the same time if possible, but are not necessary before completing the other unit activities.Upcoming discussions
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Change: Include your avatar name, and whether you are a member of AALL. Only confirmed participants will receive office space/stipend.Sign up for a Second Life account at http://www.secondlife.comor: (Recommended) Sign up through the New Media Consortium (NMC), which offers a very accessible orientation. http://sl.nmc.org/join/. ___________________________________________________Unit 1:
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Change: , covering the April 13 celebration of the second anniversary of Alliance Library System's Info Archipelago project. The Second Life Herald (currently possibly not safe for work)http://www.secondlifeherald.com/Not affiliated with Linden Lab. A long-standing blog and news site.
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Change: News blog by a former Linden Lab employee. Very active site, which not infrequently comments on legal and "governance" issues.The Second Life Herald (currently possibly not safe for work)http://www.secondlifeherald.com/ Not affiliated with Linden Lab. A long-standing blog and news site. Motto:
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Change: ) includes a bit of history and information on topics such as "government" ("in large part nonexistent, other than the 'dictatorship' of Linden Lab, the company that owns Second Life"), "arts and entertainment," "sports and recreation" and more.There are an astounding number of
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Change: Does"Does your life suck? In the MySpace-meets-Matrix online world of Second Life, everyone is sexy, real money flows, and pixels are the only limitationlimitation"By: CAMILLE DODERO Reprinted from The Phoenix Newsletter, 7/17/2006, 12:03:04 PM http://www.nmc.org/pdf/does_your_life_suck.pdfThis article is a bit dated
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Change: n location in Second Life at the Law Librarians in Virtual Worlds site. Speakers will hold a roundtable discussion with participants. Participants will then take
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Change: by emailing kfitz@saclaw.org. Only confirmed participants will receive office space/stipend.Sign up for a Second Life account at http://www.secondlife.comor: (Recommended) Sign up through the New Media Consortium (NMC), which offers a very accessible orientation. http://sl.nmc.org/join/. ___________________________________________________Unit 1: Getting StartedIntroduction to Second Life:
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Change: ___________________________________________________Unit 1: Getting StartedIntroduction to Second Life: Getting started tutorial – controls, navigation, choice of viewers, brief overview of item creation (building): Live speaker/demonstration (30 minutes), followed by optional shopping trip. TutorialsOn the web:http://sl.nmc.org/wiki/Getting_StartedIn Second Life:NMC Orientation Island If Second Life
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Change: and American Apparel has since closed its Second Life store) but gives some insight into the Second Life experience. Includes some "mature" (actually immature) behavior. By the way, I've never heard anyone refer to "real life" as "meatspace" except sarcastically. Some people do prefer the term "First Life"
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Change: By the way, I've never heard anyone refer to "real life" as "meatspace" except sarcastically. Some people do prefer "First Life" to "real life," though.Unit 3: Land Acquisition and ManagementIntroduction to land acquisition (rental and purchase) and land management
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