Participei com muito prazer da “vision quest” organizzata pelo “The Virtual World Story Project”, foi uma experiência agradavel e especialmente iluminante para entender o mundo das pessoas que vivem com uma desvantagem fisica como a cegueira.
Os participantes foram guiados pelo tema através das diferentes instruções colocadas em numerosas ilhas, o objectivo foi escrever una historia escolhendo a perspectiva de una pessoa cega ou de un cao guia tentando de descobrir as aspectos das relação privilegiada entre um cão e uma pessoa cega.
Por terminar a tarefa todos os participantes foram instruídos ser ajudados pelo cao “Max”: escrevendo mensagem na chat se poderam encontrar objectos e outras linhas-guia .
Afinal escrevi a minha história e a coloquei no prim drop, è a historia de um cao guia treinados para acompanhar seu dono em todos os momentos e dos seus sonhos…
Foi um viagem interessante, o estranho è que eu nao me senti sozinha seguindo o percurso desconhecido, Max era comigo.
Categories: posts in Portugues · second life
Tagged: creative_writing, vision_quest
Jenaia Morane was so nice to reply to me and she sent the link to a wonderful website: “The Virtual World Story Project”. Here you can find plenty of information about SL resources, Questing and stories.
She also told me about the visual quest starting on June 20th, here follows the guidelines to participate:
When: The Vision Quest begins on Saturday, June 20th at midnight and runs until midnight on Tuesday, June 24th. In other words, a total of four days.
Where: The Vision Quest will begin on one of two sims: Storybook Island or Biloxi. Participants are free to choose either sim as a starting point.
What: Participants can choose their story trails, pick up their Instruction Kits, and get a Free copy of Max the seeing eye dog at the starting point on either sim. Volunteers will be present to help those who are unsure about how to use the dog. The instructions will contain directions to the first clue.
Length: The Vision Quest will run for four days. To be considered for one of the prizes, all stories must be dropped in the submission boxes on either Storybook Island or Biloxi by midnight on Tuesday, June 23rd. There is no limit to the number of stories you can turn in, and you can do one or both of the Story Trails.
Prizes: Cash prizes will be given to the top three stories: $10,000 Lindens for First, $7,500 Lindens for Second, and $5,000 Lindens for Third. Judging will be conducted by a panel of five judges and commence on Wednesday, June 2th.
Awards: Awards will be handed out at The Vision Quest awards ceremony to be held on Saturday, June 27th at 1:00 pm (SLT). Winners will be notified beforehand and asked to read their winning entries at the ceremony. If for some reason a winner does not want to read his/her story, Jenaia Morane or another appointed avatar will read it for him/her.
If you have any question you can contact Jenaia Morane inworld or drop her an email at: jenaia@tvwsp.com
You can read the whole description in the website.
Categories: event · posts in English · second life
Tagged: vision_quest
- the Poet’s Brain
This is the place that will host the today event “Vision Quest” at 6:00 pm SLT – The Poet’s Brain.
The storyteller Jenaia Morane will take you on a Vision Quest, as she announced in the following notice:
Vision Quests are have been used by many cultures, particularly Native American tribes, to explore the innner and spiritual realms. In her story, Jenaia will share a quest of her own, talk about an exciting Vision Quest coming up in Second Life, and invite participants to do a little writing exercise designed to help them prepare for the event.
The event will take place on Mon Jun 08 2009 at 6.00 p.m. SLT, unfortunately too late for CET audience! I IMed Jenaia to check if there will be a video/narrative report of the event to access…hope there will be and will let you know about that.
If you manage joining the event, please, leave a comment here to share information and impressions with us!
Categories: event · posts in English · second life
Tagged: vision_quest
Hà alguns dias recebi una pequena porçao de terra in Second Life English -Virtlantis.
Kip Yellowjacked foi tão gentil de me deixar escolher a locação, perto do mar ahora tenho a minha “casa”, un lugar onde posso invitar os meus estudantes, amigos e colegas para discutir sobre a didáctica.
Uma pequena porçao de terra é bastante para construir o proprio lugar de contacto com os outros, visitantes, aficcionados e outros mais.
O meu desejo é de preparar uma serie di escenas que podem ser utilizadas para a aprendizagem da lingua estranjeira, o Italiano para os meus estudantes mas tambem o Portugues para mim que necessito !
Começei com um espacio aberto, uma praia…
Categories: posts in Portugues · reflections · second life
Ho il mio account in Facebook da diversi mesi e come per altre applicazioni mi sono mossa per desiderio di sperimentazione più che per passione e tra desiderio e passione c’è una bella differenza!
Il mio uso di Facebook non si può certo definire “sociale”, dopo circa 8 mesi riesco a mantenere saldamente la mia decina di amici e un’altra decina di “friends” acquisiti, la lista degli amici in attesa di approvazione è sicuramente più lunga.
In realtà in Facebook sono esattamente come nella mia vita reale: seleziono.
Ma allora perché uso Facebook? Perché frequentare un social network e negare “amicizia” a 100-200-300 persone più o meno conosciute, più o meno vogliose di entrare nel tuo piccolo grande mondo virtuale, più o meno convinte di poter ottenere qualcosa?
La risposta è semplice, Facebook è anche il luogo in cui docenti, ricercatori, esperti fanno gruppo, informano e si confrontano.
Oggi l’informazione scientifica passa anche attraverso Facebook, questa è una realtà.
Categories: posts in Italian · reflections · social network
Il VI congersso nazionale Siel “E-LEARNING, CREATIVITA’ E INNOVAZIONE” avrà luogo presso l’Università di Salerno il 16,17 1 18 Settembre 2009.
Così come leggiamo nel sito del congresso :
Il VI Congresso della Società Italiana di e-Learning desidera inserirsi in tale scenario proponendo un’analisi ed una riflessione sul ruolo che l’e-learning può svolgere nella formazione “creativa ed innovativa” sia nei contesti dell’istruzione formale sia in progetti di qualificazione e/o riqualificazione delle conoscenze e delle competenze individuali e collettive in un’ottica long-life.
La data di scadenza per la presentazione dei contributi è il 15 Giugno, sia gli abstract che i Poster dovranno seguire le seguenti tematiche:
• Technology Enhanced Learning
• eLearning policy
• e-tutoring e e-Knowledge
• Collaborative Virtual Learning
• Lifewide learning: M-Learning, t-learning
• Blended-learning
• Adaptive solution e personalizzazione intelligente
• Learning 2.0/3.0
• Competence Knowledge Management
• E-learning: Metadata e Standards
• Educational Gaming, experiential learning, e augmented reality
Informazioni dettagliate sul call for papers sono disponibili nella seguente pagina.
Categories: event · posts in Italian
Tagged: Siel
A free event in Second Life will be held on May 12th, from 6-8 p.m. (PDT) on EDTECH Island.
The immersive event will consist of a 90 minute Role Play experience followed by a 30 minute panel and open discussion. This is ideal for educators interested in games and simulations for learning and engagement.
All participants will be player/characters, if you are interested please Sign up here.
Categories: event · posts in English · second life
Tagged: roleplay
CorDeRosa, Betta and Astra
Last Saturday some participants from the Muvenation Project presented a workshop at the Virtual World Best Practices in Education conference that took place in Second Life.
As a tutur of the Italian group in the International teachers training programme I was asked by two of my mentees to help them organizing their workshop at the conference and I was very happy to give my support.
Actually working with Antonella Elia/Astra Martian and Elisabetta Marzetti/Betta Twine has been really productive in terms of relashionship building, I mean, being involved in a common project like the participation at the conference, something external to the training programme, made me reflect on the relevance of this experience in terms of quality in tutor/tutees connection.
I decided to leave them the freedom to choose their activities for the workshop and the setting of the platform where the event should take place, I just gave some functional suggestion on communication and tools and I proposed myself to act as a “vallet” during the conference.
We made a lot of jokes about that and that atmosphere helped making the workshop preparation funnier , we fixed what the roles of “the valet CorDeRosa” should be:
- welcoming participants at the beginning of the workshop
- taking care of late comers
- supporting participants with additional help through IMs
- leading the final discussion
A lot of work for the poor valet CorDeRosa!!!
Actually this role revealed to be very successful for the workshop, the event could progress smoothly without continuous interruptions from late or slower partipants.
I was very satisfied with my tutees, they did a great job and I’m sure this represented a relevant step in their acquisition of self-confidence as educators in Second Life.
We are looking forward to preparing a new event in the next conferences!
Categories: conference · posts in English · second life
Tagged: MVN08, tutoring
Directly from the conference website:
“The Virtual World Best Practices in Education (VWBPE) conference originated from the 2007 Second Life Best Practices in Education Conference. This grassroots, community-based conference attracts faculty, instructors, trainers, administrators, instructional designers, technical specialists, and members of organizations from around the world”
Within The MUVEnation programme some participants proposed 5 workshops that were included in the conference area Games, Simulations, Tutorial Presentation Area.
The workshops will take place on Saturday 28 March from 10 a.m to 12 p.m. and will cover the following areas:
- A – Dialogical Teaching: Controlling Interaction in Group Discussion, basic level, Gloria Gomez Diago (RL) gloriagdiago Galicia(SL)
- B – Acquiring and practising vocabulary: techniques and tools, basic level, Antonella Elia (RL) Astra Martian (SL), Elisabetta Marzetti (RL) Betta Twine (SL), Laura Fedeli (RL) CorDeRosa Loire (SL)
- C – Creation of flexible learning environments with Builder Buddy, intermediate level, Giuliana Perco (RL) Cvetka Nacht (SL), Jaime Alamo (RL) Alpha Lorgsval (SL), Jennifer Stanigar (RL) Bonbon Braveheart (SL), Margarita Pérez-Garcia (RL) Paz Lorenz (SL)
- D – How to prepare a presentation?, basic level, Alicia Barbitta (RL) WonderAlica Alturas (SL), Annamalia Tancredi (RL) Fabrizia Karillion (SL), Angelina Macedo (RL) Morgen String (SL)
- E – A peek inside HUDs, intermediate level, Peter Jacobs (RL) Narci Shan (SL), Cedric De Meyere (RL) Achilles Lefèvre (SL)
Categories: conference · posts in English
Tagged: MVN08, second_life
Fortaleza do Guincho
Sou apaixonada pelo Portugues, a “ultima flor do Lácio” como dizia o
escritor brasileiro Olavo Bilac e é tempo de começar a minha carreira de bloguiera, não sei bem o que vai acontecer mas acho que vai ser interessante!
Gostaria de praticar a lingua Portuguesa contando as oportunidades de encontrar resorsas em lingua e cultura portuguesa em Second Life.
Alguns dias atraz descobri un lugar interessante, Utopia Portugal VII, na Fortaleza do Guincho você pode visitar a Galeria de Arte: “quatro artistas um objectivo, criar uma plataforma de integração aos artistas sejam fotografos, designers, pintores ou outros”.
Foi assim que descobri que uma escritora havia apresentado o seu ultimo livro em Second Life “Aventuras de Ego de Todos Nós no Misterioso Reino da Consciolândia”, estava curiosa de saber mais dela e foi busca-la na Web, Carminda Hipólito Proença tem seu proprio blog …boa ocasião de ler e aprender!
Categories: posts in Portugues
Tagged: second_life
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