New cushions

Puffy cushions w a thin layer of soft gauze cushion on top - QiQ Couture enjoying the soft self pampering. Home: at Galileo Science Sim.

Immersive learning experiences, Judy Brody's Life Drawing classes in sl, sharing in a Virtual World, Digital Hollywood Graduate School

Collecting books for the DGM library, I found a copy of "Big Book of Clothing version 2" somewhere a long time ago (dont remember where!) which is already 5 years old by Judy Brody.

Googled the author more, and she has life drawing classes in Secondlife! Now thats interesting, how did that experiment work?
People draw offline and share the results in secondlife - inworld.

There is a sharing value in Virtual World lessons which is a precious quality in real life learning situations not possible in at home self learning sessions. Apparently a lot of at home courses now has conference sessions through chat, sloodle, moodle etc. online Whiteboards. All these tools are for expediency purpose, are they better than real life old fashion sitting together?

We could always learn almost everything by ourselves, but the sharing part is only possible if you do "share" a common visual and textual language.

The same goes for language lessons and any other immersive world experience.
If you were all by yourself, you are in your singular one person world, once you share a common context, you have exchangable language for transmission based on common raw data.

Life drawing classes in secondlife! This entry dates from 2005. We are entering 2010 soon. How did that experiment go?
I am amazed, but it does work with the tools and system that the teacher sets up. :)







What else could we teach through the Virtual World platform?
The advantage is, no limits to geographical location and time zones.
If you wished you could.

The teaching that I am talking about is teaching and learning as a game, as in playing.

These could be Role Playing, Creativity Play, and StoryTelling Play.

In real life, you might not come across "the right ones" for whatever games you wish to play; this is also true in a Virtual World. But, people who enter the Virtual World share something in common - the curiosity or necessity to enter a Virtual World - and thats already one level of "screening" done.

Secondly, "the right ones" that you have chosen in Secondlife usually works best in the Virtual World, once exported into the Real World - once again, it might not work.
Contextually each "perfect fit" is not independant.

Human relations come with all the layers of references and co-ordinates without which nothing can exist with any degree of richness, not in real life and not in Virtual World Secondlife.

Digital Hollywood Campus in sl- its a real life Digital Hollywood Graduate School in Tokyo! Owner In Yan

QiQ #1, 2, and 3

Whats Next? What do avatars wear when they go to a concert, a party, an "elegant gathering" - for example; a yaji?

QiQ #1, 2, and 3

QiQ #1 Is the Head of the new experiment, setting up 3 lines of research-creations in fashion.
QiQ Litt Litt = Literature, bookish, intellectual erotic

QiQ #2
QiQ Folie Folie = extravagant, hedonistic, laid back sexy

QiQ #3
QiQ balbal balbal = silliness, freedom, fun, energy, creative, current events and atheletic, action oriented

QiQ #4
QiQ revival (ongoing recurring one) Revival with a twist = remake of historical models, vintage, classical, Hanfu... etc


What do all the QiQ's have in common ?

QiQ = pronounce together as "Chick"

For the coming year, the "QiQ"s focus on:

BBB EEE LL =
Beauty, Bubblies, Well Being; Esthetics, Elegance, Enjoyment. Love & Life :)

QiQ #1 , QiQ balbal sofa

QiQ balbal sofa

QiQ is a new family sent to work on Science Sim as there is no limit of prims.
Here we have a QiQ #1 sitting on a new sofa.

The sofa is a sculptie with transparent texture.
Due to the unexpected distorsions rendered by the sculpties we often get very beautiful patterns.

Then you must adjust and re-adjust, come back, until you get it just right.

In the Science Sim, there is very few things to buy, so you have to make your own.

If you want a specific skin, you must make it yourself.

QiQ #1's outfit is made from a HuaHui House photo, again adjusting the texture to make the pattern hit the right places.

Shoes were freebies by Fashion Research Institute, curtesy of Shenlei Winkler.

Science Sim

ScienceSim OpenSim Wonderful we could make anything and it supports 22,000 prim!

Habitat for Humanity Toronto, aluminum can collection drop off pts

If you are in Toronto
Deposit your aluminum cans here;:

Habitat for Humanity Toronto

Triple M Recycling
80 Sinnot Road (South of Eglinton, 2 blocks East of Warden)
Hours of Operation:
M-F: 07:30 am-4:45 pm
Sat: 07:00 am-11:30 am
Proceed to right side of the building, they will bring you a bin in which to empty the cans. They will then be weighed and you will be given a receipt to take to the front office. Tell them you are collecting cans for Habitat for Humanity Toronto to have your drop off credited to us!

For more information please contact:
Adrienne Finlay at 416 755 7353 ext. 34
afinlay@torontohabitat.on.ca

burbtv, Neville Mars, Confucius Institute, and Children Guqin Players, 动态密度, HuaHui Mobile Music cube number

burbtv : this is an interesting nodal concept of connecting information and people focused on the City as theme owned by Neville Mars. So I found a "Node" - 动态密度 - where I was able to upload some entries on HuaHui Mobile Music - the Digital Guqin Museum mobile prototype. I want to let more people know about this, its not about "collecting beer cans", its about a moving architectural/sculptural landmark where each cube houses a url - like a tiny abstract home of the person who made the cube.

Anybody could visit the url - all they have to do is to take a picture of the 2D tag and it links them to the url.

This HuaHui Mobile Music exists in the Virtual World and the Real World.

If you want an abstract home in the HuaHui Mobile Music, send me three beer cans (empty) of your choice! And your url, its free!

Leave a message below to get a HuaHui cube number.

Your home will be next to someone from another country, from far away and you could be neighbours!

Confucius Institute

I found the child guqin player clips were added by Confucius Institute. :)