Transcript of the Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable Aug. 3, 2010
Topic:The Tech Museum of Innovation - Linden Prize Recipient. Special Guests Stephe Roux and Agent Heliosense
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Olivia Hotshot: Hi everyone, and welcome to our weekly Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable meeting.Our meetings are made possible by the Office of Information Technology at Montclair State University. We meet here each week at 2:30 pm SLT for an hour.
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Olivia Hotshot: Now then, it's time to get started. please let me being by welcoming our guests, Stephe Roux and Agent Heliosense.
Profdan Netizen: OH: could you tell about yourselves, and how you became interested in VW.
Kali Pizzaro: SR - I saw the potential in Sl and started to build in Sl
Kali Pizzaro: AH - around 2008 i started on tech virtual
Ignatius Onomatopoeia: for the transcript: Tech Museum URL: http://www.thetech.org/
Ignatius Onomatopoeia: Tech Virtual in SL: http://www.thetech.org/techvirtual/
Profdan Netizen: OH: Bob, with the Silicon valley group you formed, what type of people were involved?
Kali Pizzaro: AH- that was done via SD forum
Kali Pizzaro: Content creators and programmers etc came together
Ignatius Onomatopoeia: award announcement from LL: http://blogs.secondlife.com/community/community/blog/2010/06/01/announcing-the-winner-of-the-2010-linden-prize
Kali Pizzaro: some of those are still around but have changed a lot over the years
Kali Pizzaro: AH- this has been going for 4 years
Agent Heliosense: indeed
Profdan Netizen: OH: Rob--could you tell us about yourself, and how you became interested in VW?
Olivia Hotshot: we hear you
Kali Pizzaro: AH- for some reason i dont have sound
Kali Pizzaro: so tickle me when you need me ;
Olivia Hotshot: Rob: could you tell us about yourself, and how you became interested in VW?
Kali Pizzaro: AH- Rob -i started out in e-learning sure that sounds familiar
Kali Pizzaro: AH- about 12 years ago i started with the harvey project and then
Kali Pizzaro: opensource.org
Kali Pizzaro: sorry this is rob
Kali Pizzaro: I then went into SL 6 years ago then joined the tech museum
Kali Pizzaro: 3 years ago
Kali Pizzaro: that is my story. Sl is ideal for museums
Olivia Hotshot: Rob do you have audio now?
Olivia Hotshot: Rob- what is your role currently at the museum
Olivia Hotshot: we can hear you though
Kali Pizzaro: SR- My role is director of tech virtual the developers platform
Olivia Hotshot: Thanks
Kali Pizzaro: AH- My role is virtual community manager
Profdan Netizen: OH: Bob, your role at the Tech Museum?
Kali Pizzaro: I facilitate the projects and people
Kali Pizzaro: inside and outside of SL
Kali Pizzaro: AH- i also host most of the in world meetings
Profdan Netizen: OH: Bob, has the Tech Museum always been represented in SL, or it is new in SL?
Kali Pizzaro: AH- this tech virtual project was launched in 2007
Kali Pizzaro: AH- we have the museum and 7 folk can explore at the same time
Kali Pizzaro: AH- we have a limit of 10 minutes in this area
Kali Pizzaro: AH- it is a curious relationship
Thynka Little: it was really interesting to see young kids responding to Second Life
Ace Carson: agrees
Kali Pizzaro: AH- AH- yep that is the space in San Jose
Profdan Netizen: OH: recalled seeing a bunch of kids (in San Jose) playing.
Profdan Netizen: OH: they were really having a blast, very engaged.
Kali Pizzaro: Ah- i dont think new kids will have a problem with Sl
Thynka Little: too bad that it is not available to younger kids really
Thynka Little: until age 13
Olivia Hotshot: Rob- What about your museum especially lends itself to SL?
Agent Heliosense: no age restiction on the exhibit inside the museum
Agent Heliosense: not connected to main or teen grids
Olivia Hotshot: what about it makes it such a natural fit?
Kali Pizzaro: SR- i guess it is the wonderful opportunity
Olivia Hotshot: =)
Kali Pizzaro: SR_ for kids to go on a virtual water ski
Kali Pizzaro: SR- that is popular
Kali Pizzaro: AH- I dont know
Olivia Hotshot: Can you tell us a bit about the LL Prize and the reasons cited by LL for your award? why do you think you rose to the top?
Ignatius Onomatopoeia: 37 on sim
Kali Pizzaro: AH- we dont have any inside info. A lot of the projects are awesome
Olivia Hotshot: (rob - Bob is answering now)
Kali Pizzaro: AH- this tool is useful for all types of folks
Kali Pizzaro: AH- it is open and accessible
Kali Pizzaro: AH- not all projects allow this
Mimi Muircastle: I think the prize recognition spoke to your vision for the future of virtual worlds in a most innovative way
Kali Pizzaro: AH- the realtime collaboration is very useful
Kali Pizzaro: AH- over the past year we have been joined in -world by Barcelona
Kali Pizzaro: AH- they are here today fantastic folk
Kali Pizzaro: AH-they added so much
Kali Pizzaro: SR- the reason for the world was to reward folk who were doing projects who were improving the real worlds
Archivist Llewellyn: How did you engage the Smithsonian and the other museums and what was their level of involvement or their role?
Ignatius Onomatopoeia: Streaming video of Citilab Barcelona's work: http://www.citilab.eu/streaming-citilab
Kali Pizzaro: SR_ we are obviously doing work for real life
Olivia Hotshot: Rob can you hear us now?
Kali Pizzaro: SR_ our Barcelona friends can tell us more about that
Profdan Netizen: OH: one of the things I found interesting, is how many try to bring in RL to SL; you're doing the exact opposite, taking SL into the RL. Very clever and practical. What is different about your process?
Stephe Roux: wierd, I can hear the keyboards, but I'm not getting the voice chat input, although I can speak
Kali Pizzaro: AH- i think online is only recently been
Charlie Navarathna: voice sound is great here
Kali Pizzaro: AH- something where folks create stuff in world
Kali Pizzaro: AH- folks are using other tools but not anything like SL
Kali Pizzaro: AH- some folk want to show of their exhibits
Archivist Llewellyn: Is it true that some of the items in your museum were actually created for other projects and simply deposited at The Tech?
Kali Pizzaro: but we want folk to create
Kali Pizzaro: create
Profdan Netizen: OH: Bob, how many people do you have contributing to SL tech museum at this point?
Kali Pizzaro: Ah- we have around 30 folk active and then a smaller core who are even more consistent
Kali Pizzaro: AH_ they then become skilled and talented in their projects
Kali Pizzaro: AH- we are always looking for more folk
Kali Pizzaro: AH- who are educators
Kali Pizzaro: SR_ we have a larger group on the web
Kali Pizzaro: SR_ mainly folk who have contributed to the museum but not in SL
Kali Pizzaro: SR- some folk just are not into SL for lots of reasons
Profdan Netizen: OH: are there any SJ exhibits created by teens on the teen grid?
Kali Pizzaro: AH- I dont think the exhibits are from the teen grid
Olivia Hotshot: Rob can you tell us a bit about The Tech in Sl and what people can find there? what would you suggest that educators especially take interest in?
Kali Pizzaro: SR- hoever there are some great kids in the ten grid
Kali Pizzaro: SR_ well there is certainly a great contructivist education in creating exhibits
Kali Pizzaro: SR_ we have several unis who create stuff for the competitions
Kali Pizzaro: SR- class projects are interdisciplinary, computer, medicine and maybe drama
Kali Pizzaro: SR- anyone is welcome to enter, winning is not everything
Kali Pizzaro: SR_ some folks have won two prizes
Kali Pizzaro: AH_ i think it is a great to partner with another class
Kali Pizzaro: for example anatomy and physiology
Kali Pizzaro: AH- any content that is able to be presented in a museum
Kali Pizzaro: AH- is possible
Kali Pizzaro: AH- we are always looking for collaboration
Profdan Netizen: OH: one of the things we hear constantly is the sense of collaboration in SL and another VW, comes up all the time.
Olivia Hotshot: From Iggy: "What sort of content worked best for The Tech Virtual?"
Olivia Hotshot: Iggy explain?
Ignatius Onomatopoeia: sure
Kali Pizzaro: AH- for example we have run a design challenge around water
Ignatius Onomatopoeia: perhaps what was possible in SL but not so easy/cheap in real life
Kali Pizzaro: AH_ they is some interaction with the water wanted by the visitor
Kali Pizzaro: AH- another exhibit was about invention
Kali Pizzaro: AH- some of the things built for this was not as literal
Kali Pizzaro: AH- there was a period of transition
Kali Pizzaro: AH- both projects worked differently
Ignatius Onomatopoeia: thanks
Olivia Hotshot: Rob?
Kali Pizzaro: AH- so each exhibit or build brings it own interpretation
Kali Pizzaro: SR_ well in general all of the exhibits are interactive where possible
Olivia Hotshot: Please add your questions to Google Moderator!!
Kali Pizzaro: SR_ so SL allows this
Kali Pizzaro: SR_ so you can build in most of the user interaction in Sl which is a great advantage
Kali Pizzaro: SR- although there is some challenges
Kali Pizzaro: SR- such as avatars drawing
Kali Pizzaro: SR- each entry has its own strength
Profdan Netizen: OH: interesting to consider avatar limitations,
Profdan Netizen: esp when dealing with physiology.
Olivia Hotshot: "How did you engage the Smithsonian and the other museums and what was their level of involvement or their role?"
Kali Pizzaro: Ah- well the museums have come across a project in several ways
Kali Pizzaro: AH- our president talked to others at an executive level
Kali Pizzaro: the citilab
Kali Pizzaro: AH_ met us in San Jose
Kali Pizzaro: AH- the science centre Singapore found us online
Kali Pizzaro: AH- the level of involvement is as much as possible
Kali Pizzaro: AH- at least two staff should be involved in the design
Kali Pizzaro: AH- this last about 60 to 90 days
Kali Pizzaro: AH- so quite a commitment
Kali Pizzaro: AH- but essential
Kali Pizzaro: AH- we do this by scheduling meeting times
Kali Pizzaro: AH - for the collaborators
Kali Pizzaro: AH- what fun
Kali Pizzaro: zzzzzz
Profdan Netizen: OH: we run into the same world wide schedules with VWER.
Olivia Hotshot: How can educators volunteer or get involved with The Tech?
Kali Pizzaro: Ah - well if they are hosting a class then hopefully they can
Mandarina Parabola: Citilab: http://citilab.eu
Kali Pizzaro: AH_ get involved in the projects or come to the museum
Kali Pizzaro: AH_ you can participate doing that with little SL skill
Kali Pizzaro: AH- if building we can assist
Mandarina Parabola: It comes from citizen and lab
Kali Pizzaro: AH_ so if someone wants to work with us. we would work together on designing content
Kali Pizzaro: woop
Kali Pizzaro: form Kali
Ignatius Onomatopoeia: :)
Kali Pizzaro: AH- so i can see folk doing stuff for the SL and webpage
Kali Pizzaro: on health
Kali Pizzaro: AH- so we can help with SL or Web
Kali Pizzaro: AH- we try to help as much as possible
Kali Pizzaro: AH- if you are teachers then we can help
Archivist Llewellyn: How do you display items in the RL created in SL? Do artists make these items in 3D, do you use images, videos... how are they shown to the museum visitors and do the visitors provide and feedback? How is feedback done... survey, comment cards?
Olivia Hotshot: Rob?
Profdan Netizen: OH; we have a hodgepodge of audience members, from educators, to techies, to retired educators, and so on.
Olivia Hotshot: Rob would you like to add anything?
Kali Pizzaro: SR- sorry the voice is a problem. But yeah. Well anyone is welcome to join any challenges
Kali Pizzaro: SR_ we have all the challenges on the web
Agent Heliosense: http://thetechvirtual.org/projects
Kali Pizzaro: SR- the health gallery will be soon but will be doing an energy galllery as soon as possible
Olivia Hotshot: Thank you Rob.
Kali Pizzaro: SR- so folk with energy or climate classes would be welcome to contribute designs for that
Kali Pizzaro: AH- so if you build something in Sl then you join the title, description and model or signage, sketches etc
Kali Pizzaro: AH- so if someone wants to build that exhibit then they can follow your plan
Kali Pizzaro: AH- the models .
Kali Pizzaro: AH - then the build can be constructed
Kali Pizzaro: AH- with the correct materials etc
Kali Pizzaro: AH- if you create a design for the exhibit then you create, a picture galllery, etc
Kali Pizzaro: SR- we have a worksheet to help you
Kali Pizzaro: here is the pdf
Profdan Netizen: OH: last 6 minutes--let's have the folks of Barcelona join in.
Profdan Netizen: Could you tell us about the project with Tech Museum.
Olivia Hotshot: excellent!
Olivia Hotshot: hello
Kali Pizzaro: well last January we started the
Kali Pizzaro: project
Kali Pizzaro: we wanted a topic that was related
Stephe Roux: (voice of Mandarina Parabola - Irene Lapuente of Citilab)
Kali Pizzaro: so we are going to ask people "how has the internet changed your life
Agent Heliosense: http://thetechvirtual.org/projects/list-of-exhibit-components
Kali Pizzaro: we used workshops etc,
Agent Heliosense: http://thetechvirtual.org/mw2010/exhibit-design-worksheet.pdf
Kali Pizzaro: we had a design brief and followed the tech virtual
Kali Pizzaro: sheet
Agent Heliosense: http://thetechvirtual.org/mw2010/selected-questions-for-reviews.pdf
Kali Pizzaro: we mett ever week with people all over the world
Kali Pizzaro: and feedback and design was created in the same meeting
Kali Pizzaro: or we had a show and tell
Kali Pizzaro: we then voted
Kali Pizzaro: at city lab
Kali Pizzaro: the winner was there so we were able to interview her
Agent Heliosense: http://expolab.net/eng/
Kali Pizzaro: after that we have done 5 more prototypes
Agent Heliosense: http://thetechvirtual.org/projects/expolab
Kali Pizzaro: how work has changed, how security has changed, how we archive our lifes in the web
Kali Pizzaro: then we created a area to exhibit the designs
Olivia Hotshot: Rob ...
Profdan Netizen: OH: thanks for the great explanation, esp. how work has changed since many of us work here in SL.
Kali Pizzaro: excuse my typos and spelling hehe
Profdan Netizen: OH: what did you do with the Linden prize money.
Olivia Hotshot: What did you do with the prize money?
Olivia Hotshot: =)
Olivia Hotshot: Get it NOW!
Kali Pizzaro: SR- ha actually i dont think we have it
Ignatius Onomatopoeia: LOL call Philip Linden!
Kali Pizzaro: SR- we would like to use it for prizes and competitions
Kali Pizzaro: more folk like you
Mandarina Parabola: You'll find all the info at: http://expolab.net/eng
Kali Pizzaro: SR-" your tech virtual needs you"
Profdan Netizen: OH: how admirable to use the money to pay it forward!
Profdan Netizen: OH: how do you keep kids out of the adult content? On a separate grid, many quite young.
Jimmie Veeper: Nice discussion, thanks.
Grinn Pidgeon: Thank you, very interesting
Kali Pizzaro: Thanks
Profdan Netizen: OH: time's up, thank you very much for the excellent discussion!
Mimi Muircastle: this has been fascinating and awesome!!
Maximum Goldshark: Thanks, Olivia!
Mandarina Parabola: Thanks!!
Zotarah Shepherd: Thank you Olivia and Rob and Bob.
Olivia Hotshot: =)
JeanClaude Vollmar: Thanks for coming!
Kali Pizzaro: Thanks Prof for helping with transcribing
Ignatius Onomatopoeia: many thanks! Applause too to Kali and Dan, our transcribers!
Charlie Navarathna: Good info.
Sheila Yoshikawa: thanks!
Achrysalis Metaluna: Thanks, Olivia, Rob & Bob. I enjoyed the discussion
Olivia Hotshot: Bye and have a great day!
Eliasdehart Sixpence: good discussion
Profdan Netizen: Glad to help.
Kali Pizzaro: thanks rob and bob
Charlie Navarathna: will there be a transcript?
Olivia Hotshot: 41 on the sim was my top number
Olivia Hotshot: Yes there will be a transcript
Olivia Hotshot: Thank you to the folks from Barcelona as well!
Agent Heliosense: thanks for having us as your guests
Plato Pizzicato: thanks
Agent Heliosense: i'm happy to hear about your own projects and partnerships you think might work! let me know
Stephe Roux: thanks for coming, folks
Olivia Hotshot: I have a feeling you'll get some educators contacting you after this.
Olivia Hotshot: Thank you transcribers