I'm going to leave aside my comments on this video and just let you all watch it and judge for yourselves whether or not it deserves the controversy it's stirred up, according to the referring article. Leave your comments!(Via http://chronicle.com)
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Italian-made Educational Video Creates Controversy
I'm going to leave aside my comments on this video and just let you all watch it and judge for yourselves whether or not it deserves the controversy it's stirred up, according to the referring article. Leave your comments!(Via http://chronicle.com)
Props to Newsweek For This Video
Normally, I try to be as neutral as possible when I cover other sites' content, but Newsweek has made this difficult with this video. If for some reason you don't see it with that link, it's on the link of pages referred to here.What they've done right with this video: To begin, Jessica Bennett, the correspondent covering the story, is not the stereotypical webgeek that many non-SL users imagine residents to be in their real lives. She's attractive and well-spoken, and is comfortable with SL, leading me to believe she really is a resident, and not just a reporter assigned to the story.
Next, they give Wheelies some excellent coverage, which instantly puts the audience on SL's side. Who would be so dastardly as to deny the empowerment of someone suffering from Cerebral Palsy? And while I've not been there myself, it looks like a pretty happening place. When my self-imposed SL Sabbatical™ is over, I'm gonna check it out! (Incidentally: Simon's wheelchairs are awesome!)
Kaneva Adds YouTube Videos
I'm of two minds about this. On the one hand, it's cool to see integrated technologies, and this is definitely something I'm sure LL is working on. The ability to not only watch videos in a virtual space, but being able to share the experience with your friends is valuable.On the other hand, there's something awful about sitting at your computer watching your avatar sit at a monitor watching a video. On a practical note (and obviously I haven't experienced it yet so it might not be this way), you lose the ability to save the video, or send it to friends over the 'Net, and other normal Weblike activities. If we have any Kaneva users in the audience, would you drop a comment and let me know what it's like?
(Via home.businesswire.com)
Third Life
This is just a quickie: The video at the link is something I was giggling to myself over just yesterday, and up pops this simple, funny movie. Watch!
Richard and Judy Tackle SL
I'm big into the Beeb's past shows, such as Fawlty Towers, Monty Python, and The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but I'm not terribly up on their current mainstream programming. So it was with some pleased surprise that I received a link to this YouTube video, featuring not one, not two, but three SL residents in their real life selves, on the chat program Richard and Judy, which I understand to be the UK equivalent of the Today Show.Errol Mysterio, Fizik Baskerville, and Slim Warrior all share the time, explaining to the hosts the basics of SL, and what their particular foci are in-world. It's a wonderful video, and we can all be proud of our three intrepid interviewees -- they've acquitted themselves admirably!
Best quote: "I've got Man Breasts!"
(Thanks, Adri!)
Akela's Wishlist: Bumptop Inventory Design
Okay, watch this video and tell me you wouldn't love to do this with the Inventory in SL. It's BEGGING for this kinda treatment! I mean, c'mon, how much better would going through your inventory be if you could see a little representation of the object itself, rather than a name?I don't know enough about scripting to know whether such a thing is even possible, but someone out there will see this and say 'Hmmm ... ' The makers of this interface are considering plans to make this a desktop replacement for any machine. I'm sold, sign me up. *hopping from foot to foot*
Hi I'm a Second Lifer, Hi I'm a Therian
This video may not go the way you would hope for if you are reading the Second Life Insider, but it is pretty funny. Is There the Apple of the Virtual World? I'd like to see one with WoW being in the PC spot and Second Life being in the Mac spot. By the way, I found this over on Raph Koster's website.
Video: Tour of Berkan Island and Austin Hall
As previously reported, Harvard is giving some law courses in Second Life. This video shows a tour of their Berkman Island as well as Austin Hall. Austin Hall is a virtual representation of the real Austin Hall on Harvard's Campus. This video was used to show potential educators some of the possibilities of what Second Life can offer educators.
I am very interested in using Second Life in distance learning. I have noticed that many builds take a real building and recreate it in a virtual space. While this is great for the first round of virtual classroom spaces, I look forward to the time that Second Life is a mainstay in distance learning education and we start to see builds that exploit the many extra elements that Second Life has to offer.
Video: Carl Sagan Pavilion Ribbon Cutting
I'm not sure exactly when this happened, but there is a pretty good video tour of the Carl Sagan Pavilion and Illusion Factory Island. Nick Sagan, Carl Sagan's son and noted author and screenwriter narrates the video.
Google TechTalks with Rosedale and Ondrejka
The above video is from the Google TechTalk series recorded on March 1st of this year. It features Philip Rosedale and Cory Ondrejka showing off Second Life explaining the roots of the Second Life software. It is about an hour long and recorded with closed captioning. So, you can burn a quite hour at work reading along with this one.
Video: The Recent Grey Goo/Sonic Rings Attack
I missed out on all the grey goo fun, and by 'fun', I mean 'angst, bored frustration, edging over into malaise, punctuated by moments of mindless rage'. This video, however, gave me a tiny taste of what it was like. I still get a visceral shudder of horror when I see things like this happen. It hearkens back to early memories of watching the Donald Sutherland version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.And my further question is: "Why rings?" Should we be expecting those mushrooms from the Mario franchise? Hey, actually, that'd be kinda neat ... but only if they do allow you to grow to twice your size. Note to self: Learn to build.
(Via tipsdr.com)
Torley Linden teaches photography
Torley Linden explains how to use the new snapshot tools in Second Life. Also, he provides some advice on how to make your pictures more interesting. Definitely worth watching.
Kermitt Quirk Interview with Video
Kermitt Quirk is the by-now famous inventor of Tringo, the heralded game-within-a-game now ported to the Nintendo DS. Australian news source The Age recently interviewed Kermitt and grabbed a little video of both his land and a short introduction to Tringo itself.Now, I've not played Tringo, because frankly I don't need another method of frittering away my time; I'm the addictive type, and I know it. Kermitt, however, is another example of 'residents gone good', to be lumped in with the likes of Anshe Chung and Our Aimee -- that is to say, residents with an impact so great that they've become the RL's touchstone to SL. While the videos are short, Kermitt comes across as a fairly sober-minded individual, which is probably a good thing, considering all the overblown hype the mainstream media usually generates around SL. Go check it out; links to the videos are at the bottom of the article.
(Thanks, Corey!)
Second Lives: Steve Millar
This second part of the Second Lives documentary concentrates on multimedia artist Steve Millar. Steve Millar's Second Live is spent creating art and otherwise expressing his creativity.
Second Lives: Alayne Wartell
This short documentary is part of the Second Lives series from Channel 4. It is part of a 4 part series on user experiences inside Second Life. This first video follows Alayne Wartell a successful Second Life business person who also met her husband in world.
