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Category: Virtual Worlds

Shooting machinima at the BAVC Producer’s Institute

Posted on June 3, 2009 by

Today we started shooting machinima for the presentation for the "Virtual Mine" project, being pitched at the conclusion of the BAVC Producer's Institute on Friday.  Yes, it was a lot of work for the team to create the assets, write the shooting script, and arrange the sets for the machinima shoot.  But it was also…

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Virtual meeting with Claudia Linden at the Producers Institute at BAVC in San Francisco

Posted on June 2, 2009 by

I've been in San Francisco since Saturday participating in the awesome Producers Institute, organized by the Bay Area Video Coalition.  The Producers Institute is an intense week bringing together documentary filmmakers, technologists, activists and educators to brainstorm new forms of participatory media for social change.  I feel very lucky to be here as a "Mentor"…

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Off to Producers Institute for New Media Technologies in SF next week!

Posted on May 27, 2009 by

Video about project to create social media supporting global justice, around documentary "The Reckoning." I got a last minute invite to participate in the Producers Institute for New Media Technologies all of next week in San Francisco, run by those amazing folks at the Bay Area Video Coalition.  Running from May 27 to June 7,…

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Machinima tour of MacArthur Island led by Mac President Fanton! (video)

Posted on May 19, 2009 by

For those of you not in Second Life, here is a lovely video tour of the new MacArthur Island sim led by the avatar of MacArthur Foundation president Jonathan Fanton.  I love the production values of this machinima, and how it encapsulates in seven minutes the broad range of projects being supported by the MacArthur…

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Video archive of Cory Ondrejka & Jonathan Fanton discussion now online

Posted on May 19, 2009 by

For those that were not able to catch the virtual conversation with Second Life co-founder Cory Ondrejka and MacArthur President Jonathan Fanton yesterday, the video archive is now up.  Our friends at Treet.tv (formerly known as SLCN.tv) have released in record time the machinima video of the launch of MacArthur Island that happened yesterday in…

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MacArthur Island launch a success!

Posted on May 18, 2009 by

Today was a good day.  I was the event producer for the successful public launch of MacArthur Island in Second Life, featuring a conversation between the avatars of Jonathan Fanton, President of the MacArthur Foundation, and Cory Ondrejka, co-founder of Second Life now at EMI.  Over 150 avatars, plus another 20-some viewers of the live…

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Join Jonathan Fanton and Cory Ondrejka on MacArthur Island on Monday May 18

Posted on May 8, 2009 by

On Monday May 18, at 2pm PST , the MacArthur Foundation will be officially launching MacArthur Island in Second Life with a public forum featuring Foundation President Jonathan Fanton and co-creator of Second Life, Cory Ondrejka. Ondrejka and Fanton will be discussing the future of virtual worlds and philanthropy, and then taking questions from the…

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Launch of EcoCommons in Second Life Today (Earth Day)!

Posted on April 22, 2009 by

All avatars are kindly invited to the launch of the EcoCommons in Second Life today, April 22 — Earth Day! This lush, tree-filled virtual island hosts a number of environmental organizations, including the Sierra Club, OneWorld.net and TechSoup's GreenTech Initiative. The EcoCommons launch event will feature a keynote speech at 11AM PST by Jacqueline Chenault,…

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HASTAC Digital Media & Learning Showcase: a laptop orchestra, OLPCs in Chiapas, vloggers in Mumbai, and more…

Posted on April 18, 2009 by

Here's a neat little clip of Connie Yowell of the MacArthur Foundation welcoming the 2008 and 2009 winners of the HASTAC Digital Media and Learning competition, including myself and Amira from Global Kids. Connie always does such a great job synthesizing the broader historic trends, the cumulative impact of the various digital learning projects supported…

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Small Worlds seeks to integrate social networks and virtual worlds

Posted on April 14, 2009 by

I've been checking out the new virtual world Small Worlds over the past few weeks, and so far have been pretty impressed.  Here's some of the things I like about it: Accessibility: It's a web-based 2.5D environment that runs on Flash, so its much more accessible than other VWs that rely on a client download….

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