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January 09, 2008
Brown Bag 2007-12-14 (Notes)
ATTENDING:
JJ Drinkwater
Perplexity Peccable
Kinderella Bright
Philomena Flanagan
Memetic Projects
Vic Novi
Gillian Oh
Brunopesto Contepomi
Rudolfo Woodget
Trallfazz Vilas
Gyokuran Enzo
Ted Welles
INTRODUCTIONS
Departments:
4 - HSL
1 - Kinesiology
1 - Alum, School of Information
2 - Public Health
2 - Med School
1 - Dearborn (teaching writing)
RL Locations:
1 - League wireless
2 - Office
1 - home (not in Michigan)
3 - Public Health
DISCUSSION:
* Announcements
We received approval to distribute UM-logo apparel to our community in SL, and to set up a UM Spirit Shop. Location and inventory to be decided later.
* Proposed Structure for Brown Bags
A rotating schedule, including these types of topics in roughly this sequence:
- Skills
- Locations / Places / Tours
- Issues
- UM (i.e. managing the UM presence)
- Show and Tell / Swapmeets (share landmarks, freebies, where to find the best X)
- NOTE: Last Friday of the month will always be the Swapmeet / Show and Tell week.
* Possible Events and Brown Bag Topics
- tours of educational places
- about stereoscopic and/or 3D SL [NOTE: Trallfazz Vilas offered a dual-projector setup in Geo as space to explore this topic.]
- How To: streaming audio/video for live events (meetings, workshops, orientations, invited speakers)
- How To: creating animations (NOTE: Poser was recommended)
- Anatomy tools and resources (show and tell skeleton avatar)
- How To: making notecards and displays for education
- How To: Herding Cats 101 (how to teach in SL)
- How To: hosting events in SL
- How To: making exhibits without making problems
- Finding land for educational purposes
* Invited Speakers to Contact
- Tour of InfoIsland International with Rolig Loon, a foreign language and culture learning facility
- JJ Drinkwater on teaching in SL
* Goodies Shared
- Freebies: Basic Body Parts
- Full perms "Welcome Newbie" notecard, from JJ Drinkwater
- Moddable demo HUD distributed, by JJ Drinkwater. Shall we ask for a DFE student to create tour HUD? NOTE: HUD = Head's Up Display
* Desiderata
- Collect introductory information for students, faculty, and staff who are interested in joining SL generally and our community specifically.
- Post sign saying chatlogs being recorded
- Create Brown Bag Facilitators Kit
- Welcome to our Brown Bag Series - notecard in giver
- Market via local print publications, ie. The Record
- Market via other SL groups, NMC suggested
- Repeat tour in February; market widely. Repeat once a semester?
- Create group blog
- Build an inworld library of useful freebies and educational resources [NOTE: Where to put this?]
- Real World silkscreened tshirt for our group
* Policies
- There should be a stated 10 minute welcome period while we wait for Michigan time
Wiki/Blog:
- Create wiki/blog (open, reskinnable)
- Collate best bractices, getting started, etc. [NOTE: Berkman Center guide was recommended]
- Collect chatlogs
- Schedules, sessions, events, moderators
GROUP NAME:
Second Life @ the University of Michigan = SLUM
Slogans?
- Let's go SL-UMming!
- Welcome to the SLUMs
DEFINITION:
Official collective plural of wolverine is now "a maize of wolverines" (proposed by JJ Drinkwater)
Posted by pfa at January 9, 2008 03:50 PM