In most weeks there will be workshops in which you will be asked to undertake, as groups or an individuals, specific tasks related to the thematic content of that week.
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vortiCISM- Phone line installed on solipCISM 26 November 2009You can now reach Khoisan by telephone in solipCISM. Students and others have always been able to see whether or not I’m online, but unless they’ve been on my Contacts list they’ve had no direct way of contacting me when online. To address this inconvenience, I googled a telephone box image, built a telephone box, and [...]Chris Hutchison
- Rezzable and Heritage Key 15 November 2009It had been, as much as anything else, my longstanding interests in virtual history and virtual archaeology that had, after some years of teaching my desktop VR module, motivated me to devise and launch my final-year undergraduate Culture & Heritage Informatics module two years ago. I’d been surprised and impressed by a number of historical [...]Chris Hutchison
- The Middle Passage Experience comes to solipCISM 9 October 2009I’m delighted to announce the arrival of Tamsin Barzane’s Middle Passage Experience installation as a new permanent exhibition on solipCISM. I first blogged the exhibition back in early July when it was curated on Saminaka. Prim limitations at that time meant, however, that the exhibition there could only be temporary, so I’m very pleased […]Chris Hutchison
- Ananse’s Web 9 October 2009I’ve written before about the cultural and educational African presences in Second Life, and documented elsewhere Tamsin Barzane’s impressive Middle Passage exhibition on Saminaka. Back in early August Tamsin invited me to a meeting of Africanists convening on Friday 10th August in the magnificent Saminaka Library. [2009/08/06 4:27] Tamsin Barz […]Chris Hutchison
- solipCISM gets makeover 3 September 2009In preparation for the next academic year, beginning in four weeks from now, solipCISM has had an extensive makeover this summer, with much of the existing content redesigned, rebuilt, or re-textured, as well as much new content added. The Welcome Zone has been largely redesigned and rebuilt, now with well-stocked freebie shops as well as [...]Chris Hutchison
- Demonstration of 3Di OpenSim for education 3 September 2009Other than maybe better integration with the web, I’m not yet sure I quite yet see the point of this–Second Life running in a frame within a standard web browser (available for both Firefox and IE)–maybe because the documenttion is scant in English (3Di is a Japanese company), but it seemed to me worth posting [...]Chris Hutchison
- Second Life running on an iPhone 3 September 2009I first found these YouTube videos almost a year ago, but hadn’t thought to flag it in this blog. At that time, the company that was leading the development of Second Life on mobile phones was streaming mobile game service provider Vollee: Vollee is a technology company which streams PC applications to mobile handsets. By hosting [...]Chris Hutchison
- Khoisania 3 August 2009An issue with students this year was lack of a sandbox in solipCISM and lack of space to exhibit large builds. I suggested students might used a standalone OpenSim server–and several did so on their laptops–but I’d not had the time to tutor them through the process. This weekend I decided to install my own server, [...]Chris Hutchison
- Student projects, 2009 2 August 2009Many more fine projects this year, too numerous to list … Tower Bridge, the Taj Mahal, a fully functional fairground, the Parthenon, museums, … I leave you with one indicative video:Chris Hutchison
- How to dress in SL when your teacher’s around 22 April 2009An interesting (though not new) issue has been raised in the SL Educators forum with respect to how avatars should attire themselves for formal (non-recreational) contexts such as lectures, meetings, and public events: Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:07:47 -0400 From: “Villano, Paul Mr CIV USA TRADOC” Subject: Re: [SLED] Professional Attire Recommendat […]Chris Hutchison
- Phone line installed on solipCISM 26 November 2009
