I was lucky to attend two meetings in SL this week. The first was informal and short where I explored The Tech Virtual Museum Workshop space in SL. The interesting idea implemented by the team developing this space was through mixing the real and virtual worlds together by broadcasting a ‘real video’ stream in their SL room. It is amazing how this overlap happens where the two worlds are integrated. It also opens doors and shows great potentials for future use in conferences or educational events. Their plan is to give the opportunity to people to design, explore, and showcase educational exhibits and galleries in their museum.

The second meeting was held in webheads space in edunation where the hosts kindly gave free and thorough tutorials on the use of SL for teaching and presenting. The presented some of the tools and the way they are designed or modified for different purposes. Two of these were the agenda tool for upcoming meetings and the “speakout” tool which allows users to prepare a scripted presentation and show it in text format while presenting with voice. It helps a lot as a supporting tool and also for users who don’t have access to voice in SL as in some countries now. During the meeting, SL “Inside the Lab” podcast was suggested. It is a space used by SL staff for training purposes. Their sessions are recorded to this podcast and there are also video tutorials and text scripts of each topic.

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