Tutorials for clothing design in VR (SL)

Nicola Escher – Virtual World Fashion Designer

“Nicola creates unique, hand-crafted clothing for virtual world avatars. Currently Nicola’s clothing can be worn and experienced in Second Life®, a virtual world run by Linden Lab™.”

Second Life tutorials developed by Doe-Hyung Kim, and the SL list of Video Tutorials

Web 2.0 viral video

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then is a moving picture moving thousands? Or…maybe a picture of words worth thousands of pictures?
YouTube – The Machine is Us/ing Us (Final Version) In this short video (“a slightly revised and cleaned up version of the video that was featured on YouTube in February 2007″), Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University, demonstrates the power of the web as a communication tool.

MindMapping fodder

An Introduction to Connective Knowledge ~ Stephen’s Web ~ by Stephen Downes

“…an overview of connective knowledge. It is intended to be an introduction, expressed as non-technically as possible.”

Video: Ray Kurzweil (May, ‘07)

Killer App Expo – Ray Kurzweil: Technology Evangelist

At the Killer App Expo in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Ray Kurzweil gave the evening Keynote speech. … grabbed the entire keynote with house audio.

Video: SL mover and shakers

Revver : Nerd of the Week – Episode 2 The Second Life Nerd

Nerd of the Week – Episode 2 The Second Life Nerd.  From the makers of the documentary Nerdcore Rising comes the series Nerd of the Week

Applying technology of Second Life

Once before, in my short time in Second Life, have I seen the work of Kisa Naumova. Here is an extraordinary video of Kisa showing how she…

“…ran through a PHP script to extract the object info and convert it to something I could paste in a notecard. Then I made 11 objects (the little cubes in front of me in the video) that scoot themselves off to a predetermined location, spew out prims based on the notecards

Wow.

Future School (cont.)

Future School

# Open twenty-four hours a day
# Customized educational experience
# Kids arrive at different times
# Students begin their formalized schooling at different ages
# Curriculum is integrated across disciplines
# Nonteachers work with teachers
# Teachers alternate working in schools and in business world
# Local businesses have offices in the schools
# Increased number of charter schools

Alvin Toffler’s Future School

Future School

“Should education be compulsory? And, if so, for who? Why does everybody have to start at age five? Maybe some kids should start at age eight and work fast. Or vice versa. Why is everything massified in the system, rather than individualized in the system? New technologies make possible customization in a way that the old system — everybody reading the same textbook at the same time — did not offer.
“I think (and this is not going to sit very well with the union) that maybe teaching shouldn’t be a lifetime career. Maybe it’s important for teachers to quit for three or four years and go do something else and come back. They’ll come back with better ideas.”

YouTube Video – Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us

YouTube – Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us (~5 min.)
A short film by Kansas State Cultural Anthropology Professor Mike Welsh. In under five minutes, he takes a big bite of the Web 2.0 gestalt

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How to contribute to Wikipedia

Geek to Live: How to contribute to Wikipedia
is a nice introduction to Wikipedia editing.

“…the prospect of editing the thing seemed scary and mysterious – I mean, who are these people anyway? How does one become an encyclopedia editor? – but there it was, a big honkin’ typo staring at me. I was suddenly seized by the responsibility – obligation, really – to fix it. So I took the plunge …

It turns out editing an article isn’t scary at all. It’s easy, surprisingly satisfying and can become obsessively addictive. If you’ve always wondered who edits Wikipedia and how it’s done, you’re in the right place. Today we’ll go over how to contribute to Wikipedia and give back to the community which offers so much by way of free information.”