The Naace Tour that Should have Been

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Permalink Reply by Chris Smith on March 7, 2009 at 9:14pm

Naace is the (UK) professional association for those concerned with advancing education through the appropriate use of information and communications technology (ICT). http://www.naace.org

At the annual conference, March 2009, in Blackpool, England one of the breakout sessions was a mixed reality one hour introduction to virtual worlds and in particular Second Life, a co-presentation with myself in Thailand.

My links in Thailand to the Blackpool hotel were through Skype and also from inside Second Life.
Unfortunately the (UK) internet connectivity was not up to the task at this time, maybe I was too critical of the English weather and the rain driving against the hotel windows ... I'll burn more joss sticks next time.

But even though the real life participants in the audience missed out on a real time Second Life demo and tour I was still in-world, with a videographer LeonTubrok Beaumont (SL name) and a casual visitor, Alena Tigerauge (SL name) who happened to be visiting International Schools Island at the time.

So rather than give in to our disappointments at losing the link with Naace in the UK we decided to take advantage of the skills we had between us and do the tour anyway with LeonTubrok wielding his trusty video camera.

This video (machinima) was completely unrehearsed and unscripted and done in real time ..... and although a real time experience in Second Life would have been preferred this is a brilliant alternative given the situation ... we hope you find it interesting and motivational.

I'm most grateful to Leon Tubrok (RL name Neil Corbett) for not only taking the video but also the much more time consuming editing ..... and also to Alena for the encouragement and support.

Shamblesguru Voom (SL)
Chris Smith (RL)
www.shambles.net
csmith at csmith dot info

The videographer
Based in Manchester, England
LeonTubrok Beaumont (SL)
Neil Corbett (RL)
contact: leon.tubrok@googlemail.com

URLs
Naace Strategic Conference 2009 Blog
http://blackpoolconference09.naaceblogs.org

Breakout Session 3: Introduction to virtual worlds
http://tinyurl.com/btbw2d

The 17 min video I used in the RL presentation is at
http://shambles.blip.tv/file/1441636

International Schools Island (isi) Blog
http://internationalschoolsisland.info

General Info About SL
http://www.shambles.net/secondlife

Video can be seen at
Vimeo: www.vimeo.com/3516600

Blip.tv: http://leontubrok.blip.tv/file/1850140

YouTube: split in two parts
Part1: youtube.com/watch?v=VlEeSV7GimY
Part2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQXE5mzFpNs


More details at International Schools Island Blog
http://internationalschoolsisland.blogspot.com

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Permalink Reply by Bill Freese on August 28, 2009 at 9:51am

Lovely. Nice say of dealing with a tech failure.

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