Avatars, support BAVC:
Second Life machinimatographer Draxtor Despres’s public service announcement for BAVC. BAVC is a social issues digital media makers group located in San Francisco.
Education
Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday Tribute
Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday Tribute from Rysan Fall on Vimeo. Filmed in Virtual Harlem with some of the students there. Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday Tribute from Rysan Fall on YouTube.
Te Wāhi Whānau – The Birth Place in Second Life
Te Wāhi Whānau, The Birth Place, on the SLENZ Project’s Second Life island of Kowhai is a place where midwifery students can experience the authenticity of the moment of labour and birth even if in a virtual world. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Kowhai/148/139/32 … Continue Reading
Starward” The International Spaceflight Museum in SL
The International Spaceflight Museum is one of the first places I visited as a newbie and one that I highly recommend to others. The Rockets are great, but the ride space station and on to the planets is not to… Continue Reading
California Legacy in SL – Episode 4: Dickens in Camp by Bret Harte
Another great episode of the California Legacy in SL project by Draxtor Despres.
Jabberwocky – Lewis Carroll
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. Be sure to look at the other video edited by Pengin “The World in Balance” … Continue Reading
Virtual Social Worlds and the Future of Learning
Dr. Tony O’Driscoll (Wada Tripp in SL) describes the 7 Sensibilities that Differentiate Virtual Social Worlds from other interactive media and makes the argument that these sensibilities provide us with unprecedented freedom to create true experential learning opportunities. This video… Continue Reading
21st Century Literacies
Howard Rheingold speaking about 21st century literacies at the Reboot Britain event in London, July, 2009. (About 40 minutes). Unfortunately I can not embed this video in to the page but if you click the link you can see it.… Continue Reading
Obama in Ghana…and the Metaverse was watching!
A new machinima from Draxtor Despres reporting on: ” President Barack Obama’s recent visit to Ghana was the first public appearance in official capacity and it was also the most tweeted, facebooked and SMS’ed event so far for his web savvy… Continue Reading
“The Land Of Little Rain” An excerpt – Mary Austin
An excerpt from Mary Austin’s 1903 collection “The Land Of Little Rain” Machinima by, Draxtor Depres. This is the second machinima installment from The California Legacy Project at Santa Clara University. The project is dedicated to preserving California’s unique culture through republishing… Continue Reading