Transcript of the Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable Aug. 26, 2010

Topic: Tools for Teaching in Virtual Worlds

Photos by Iggy. Join our VWER group at Flickr and add your own pictures!

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.

Lim Portal: Hi Cats

Jarrad Voom: HI Zotarsh

Olivia Hotshot: The Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable is a forum to educate and inform the community about issues that are important and relevant to education.

Zotarah Shepherd: Hi Olivia!

Olivia Hotshot: Today's meeting, Tools for Teaching in Virtual Worlds will be in TEXT CHAT only. I will not be monitoring the local chat or answering IMs during this session.

Zotarah Shepherd: Hi Jarrad

Olivia Hotshot: <actually i will be looking at local chat - sorry>

Olivia Hotshot: The views and opinions of any of our special guests or visitors do not necessarily represent those who volunteer or organize these meetings, or of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Office of Information Technology , or Montclair State University

Olivia Hotshot: This is a public meeting, so we do keep a transcript of what is said in local chat. For a copy of transcripts, please visit http//www.vwer.org

Olivia Hotshot: The Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable meeting happens each week and we are looking to develop a community of educators from around the world with a variety of thoughts, needs, and ideas.

Olivia Hotshot: Please join the Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable group here in SL. You can also find us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Flicker, and KoinUp, as well as on Twitter as VWER.

Olivia Hotshot: Finally, if you have Mystitool on, or other similar tool, please put it to sleep or detach it for now. -) It tends to lag things.

Olivia Hotshot: I'm Olivia, today's moderator for this group, and hosting today for AJ Brooks. If you've not seen the transcripts Iggy runs, you should check them out - they are a great information asset.

Olivia Hotshot: Now then, it's time to get started. please introduce yourself to the group. I am Ann Steckel, a techie and educator from California State University, Chico who is managing 2 campuses for the university as well as working on many components of CLIVE.

Kali Pizzaro: Evelyn MCElhinney Glasgow Caledonian University nurse lecturer, RN etc etc

Profdan Netizen: Dan Holt, Lansing Community College, Lansing, MI. I teach writing, both fy composition and creative writing.

Margaret Michalski: Margaret Czart, Research Information Specialist from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Jarrad Voom: Jarrad Voom

Hattie Haystack: Gail Hanson Brenner, Clinical Instructor for Nursing, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

LoCE99Ch8 Morpork: Rosanna Brown, Lassen Community College Library, Susanville (northeastern), California, rbrown@lassencollege.edu, @RbrownLassen. In world, call me Loce.

Ignatius Onomatopoeia is Joe Essid, U Richmond Rhetoric & Communication Studies, House of Usher Simulation manager, blogger, bald-headed freak

Olivia Hotshot: ( 31 presently on sim)

Zotarah Shepherd: I am a MA in Education (technology & psychology) student at Sonoma State University in northern California working on a Thesis curriculum project: Teaching and Learning Life Foundation Skills in Second Life on my sim Ralanora.

Ewan Bonham: Scott Anstadt, Assistant professor in Social work at florida gulf coast university

Alexsis Kamala: Anna-Marie Robertson - Dream Realizations, nonprofit for visualization of math, Idaho

Dabici Straulino: currently doing an M.Sc. in creativity and Change Leadership at Buffalo State NY University

Olivia Hotshot: ( Empty seat to my left - look for the wild red & black hair)

Lim Portal: John Walsh, educator and ed tech fiend

Ignatius Onomatopoeia: I'm taking pics of you, Olivia

Ute Frenburg is Rebecca Reiniger from Dream Realizations, nonprofit math visualization for remediation, Oregon :-)

JeanClaude Vollmar: I'm Jeff Le Blanc and work for the University of Northwestern Ohio as the VP for IT.

Olivia Hotshot smiles as pretty as an avatar can

Lali Latte: Melinda Korzaan, Middle Tennessee State University, Associate Professor, Computer Information Systems

Silhshoot Seelowe: David Joyner, High School librarian, Marysville ,CA and library grad student at San Jose State

Esme Qunhua: Jane Wilde (Esme) Instructor Marlboro College Graduate School Vermont

Libor Ibor: I'm student of Library and Information Science and fan of SL

Olivia Hotshot: last call for introductions

Jozen Ocello: Wan-Ying Tay, Dept of Ed, Uni of Oxford

ericcgcc Yootz: eric greene adjunct fac columbia gorge community college, the dalles or

Jarrad Voom: Hi Eric

Olivia Hotshot: First of all let me say welcome to all of you.

Olivia Hotshot: The table is getting more full it seems =)

Moyra Ares: im doing my masters of interactive media at UTS

Olivia Hotshot: Luckily we're friendly

Olivia Hotshot: Here is how we will proceed today:

Jarrad Voom: UTS?

Olivia Hotshot: 1. we will list all the tools we use or want to use. Then we will go through the popular ones and ask for those who have used the tools to speak about their experiences.

Moyra Ares: University of Technology Sydney

Olivia Hotshot: 2. Ignore all typos please. =)

Olivia Hotshot: hehe

Jarrad Voom: Early for you then.

Olivia Hotshot: 3. List what tools we WISH we had in virtual worlds.

Ignatius Onomatopoeia: Word gets them in the transcript, thank goodness

Olivia Hotshot: So, off we go with a bang - ready, set, LIST!!!

Profdan Netizen: Just take an empty chair Andrew, when you've rezzed.

Ignatius Onomatopoeia: Out-of-world backup in SL, as we do in OpenSim grids

Olivia Hotshot: empty seats to my left

Andrew Fallen: ok

Esme Qunhua: iggy's jumping ahead methinks

Ignatius Onomatopoeia: sorry--chat lag is BAD for me

Kali Pizzaro: free scripts

Olivia Hotshot: Nah, list!! what tools do we use

Alexsis Kamala: http://www.google.com/apps/

Alexsis Kamala: Skype

Ute Frenburg: oovoo

Alexsis Kamala: Dropbox.io

Olivia Hotshot: empty seat to my left

Kali Pizzaro: tools in SL?

Jarrad Voom: ppt

Ignatius Onomatopoeia: okay I use Script me for simple scripting. It's at: http://3greeneggs.com/autoscript/

Olivia Hotshot: Yes, tools we currently use to teach in virtual worlds

Kali Pizzaro: sure so free scripts

Olivia Hotshot: PowerPoint Presenter is mine

Esme Qunhua: give boxes.

Brenda Jericho: dimdim

Marc Rexen: oh, nice iggy.

Ignatius Onomatopoeia: I "borrow and modify" textures from Google Image search in my builds...try to mod them heavily :)

Margaret Michalski: scripts, VERY basic presentation board

Esme Qunhua: sloodle tools

Silhshoot Seelowe: SpeakEasy HUD

Kali Pizzaro: chat bots

Profdan Netizen: Which PPT board do you use, Olivia?

Olivia Hotshot: I would have to look in inventory - one sec Prof. i like this one lots too

Esme Qunhua: Media on prim

Profdan Netizen: Anyone tried showing PPTs with Google docs presenter on a media share board?

Ignatius Onomatopoeia: Hippo Slide Presenter is one I like, at http://www.hippo-technologies.co.uk/products/hipposlideshow/index.php

Kali Pizzaro: no but sounds interesting Prof

Margaret Michalski: thanks Iggy

Esme Qunhua: I have used google docs but it is tricky - slide share seems to work better on prim

Graham Mills: I use slideTalk (OK, I wrote it)

Ignatius Onomatopoeia: Imprudence client is my fave...not Viewer 2. It has an export feature but does not permit textures to be downloaded

Olivia Hotshot: Prof - I have done that

Lali Latte: I use Google Docs

Graham Mills: etherpad

Olivia Hotshot: Etherpad is owned by google now

Graham Mills: The company yes but the software is open source

Graham Mills: Many implementations

Kali Pizzaro: mm ethepad is that a whitebaord ?

Olivia Hotshot: Fleep's collaborative blackboard uses Etherpad - always liked that tool

Libor Ibor: I use http://www.dabbleboard.com/

Olivia Hotshot: it i like Google Docs' Kali

Graham Mills: Twiddla is similar

Kali Pizzaro: ah ok

Graham Mills: List of shared media apps: http://delicious.com/pmiller/slsm

Graham Mills: (for later reference)

Profdan Netizen: What about desktop sharing on a media share prim? Anyone tried that yet?

Ignatius Onomatopoeia: the list will be great on the transcript, with live URLs

Kali Pizzaro: a repository which emails me a notecard when the students drop it in

Profdan Netizen: That sounds useful, Kali.

Kali Pizzaro: they write th patient history on a note card and drop it in

Kali Pizzaro: yeah it is it gets pushed to my phone so i can give instant feedback

Margaret Michalski: Hi Birdie

Hattie Haystack: that's awesome Kali!

Alexsis Kamala: @Prof, have you tried doing the desktop sharing?

Birdie Newcomb: Hi

Ignatius Onomatopoeia: now that display names has been introduced, we'll use it heavily on the Usher Simulation

Kali Pizzaro: thanks hattie

Jarrad Voom: HI Birdie

Kali Pizzaro: our tech guy scripted it

Birdie Newcomb: How does one display a display name?

Moyra Ares: yes is there a program uploading the screenshot of the desktop to a server and displays it as a HTML file?

Kali Pizzaro: hey works well with our suggestions

Kali Pizzaro: a heart sounds simulator which is worn on your chest

Ignatius Onomatopoeia: Not sure, Birdie. But it will make me try Viewer 2 with our Usher avatars so they can display the actual names from Poe's story

Brenda Jericho: I can share my desktop using dimdim

Kali Pizzaro: ;-)

Moyra Ares: url for dimdim?

Kali Pizzaro: that is handy Brenda

Brenda Jericho: http://www.dimdim.com

Margaret Michalski: @ Iggy that will be nice

Birdie Newcomb: I had to download a new version of Viewer 2 to log in

Brenda Jericho: You just add your room URL to the prim

Graham Mills: The next dimdim version reduces the number of users to 10 for the free version though

Profdan Netizen: Brenda, does the desktop take up the whole prim? I seemed to have difficulty getting it to give me much real estate for the actual desktop image.

Ignatius Onomatopoeia: I'd love better particle effects for the Usher build, too. That may come with meshes, for all I know

Archivist Llewellyn: Archivist Llewellyn, NASA Library in SL

Brenda Jericho: No....the desktop only takes up the presentation side.....but I think that the students can make it full screen.....but I don't know if I have tried that from the student side in SL.

Ignatius Onomatopoeia: We'd love to have water that we could put into the build, at 1000m up. We use a flat prim textured to look like moving water

Profdan Netizen: I'd really like to be able to show my desktop, filling up the whole media share prim.

Profdan Netizen: It would make pointing out how to do stuff on the viewer much easier.

Brenda Jericho: Yes, if you had a room in dimdim before the update you are grandfathered in with a 20 person classroom

Kali Pizzaro: voice on occasion

Kali Pizzaro: ;-)

Kali Pizzaro: nearly forgot

Graham Mills: CamSync

Ignatius Onomatopoeia: hah....Kali does it not work well for your teaching?

Profdan Netizen: I use voice quite a bit as well, but it's buggy.

Kali Pizzaro: sometimes for induction

Olivia Hotshot: Display name info and instructions: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Display_Names

Kali Pizzaro: cheers Olivia

Olivia Hotshot: If you ad media to a prim be sure to lock it down so that others cannot change the URL to their own sites

Kali Pizzaro: indeed

Olivia Hotshot: 37 on sim for the transcript

Olivia Hotshot: So any more tools we can list?

Ignatius Onomatopoeia: does media on a prim change how parcel media works? We'd love to be able to have a boom-box on a parcel and not the generic feed I cannot change

Graham Mills: Again for the record http://muvenation.org/collection-of-educational-tools-for-second-life/

Olivia Hotshot: Media is not linked to land any more

Brenda Jericho: Good point Olivia - about locking down the prim URL

Graham Mills: Don't think so, Iggy

Lali Latte: I use Debut Video capture .

Olivia Hotshot: Thanks Brenda

Ignatius Onomatopoeia: we've imagined, say, music boxes in the House of Usher that give clues or play appropriate music from 1847

Graham Mills: One point about shared media is that audio used to be sim-wide but they seem to have fixed that now

You decline Basic scripting from A group member named Nihlaeth Melody.

Profdan Netizen: Range might be a problem, Iggy--don't recall how far a shared media prim plays.

Birdie Newcomb: Hard times, hard times, come again no more...

Kali Pizzaro: what was the other question Olivia

Olivia Hotshot: Shared media information: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Shared_Media

Kali Pizzaro: ?

Ignatius Onomatopoeia grins at Birdie. Hard times come whenever LL rolls out a new server, like today

Birdie Newcomb: @Iggy Beautiful Dreamer...

Ignatius Onomatopoeia: Birdie, I'm stealing that for Madeline Usher!

Graham Mills: If you are working with molecules, Hiro Sheridan's Orac rezzer is great

Brenda Jericho: How do you get this table we are sitting at?

Lali Latte: I have one, Brenda

Graham Mills: Mystitool

Ignatius Onomatopoeia: @Lali, do you have a URL for Debut Video Capture? (http://www.nchsoftware.com/capture/index.html)

Jarrad Voom: hehehe

Olivia Hotshot: I also think Radar is an important tool for keeping track of participants.

Margaret Michalski: @ Iggy , I thought Usher could not get any funner : )

Kali Pizzaro: oh yeah the mystitool is good also haha

Olivia Hotshot: this is a mystitoll table

Birdie Newcomb: Did someone mention the think boxes?

Olivia Hotshot: sorry - having huge chat lag and trouble putting text in

Brenda Jericho accepted your inventory offer.

You decline Basic scripting from A group member named Nihlaeth Melody.

Profdan Netizen: What's a think box, Birdie?

Olivia Hotshot: Yes, what is that Birdie?

Birdie Newcomb: A 3D schematic

Ignatius Onomatopoeia: LM for Mystitool's shop: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Blumfield/26/146/297

Birdie Newcomb: mother box, connected to daughter boxes, etc.

Brenda Jericho: Thank you for the link for the table Ignatius

barbarathelibrarian Magic: Thank you! :-)

Graham Mills: Is there still an edu version of Mysti?

Olivia Hotshot: I think a translator is also a good tool to have in teaching.

Birdie Newcomb: I forget the creator

Marc Rexen: Metanomics...

Marc Rexen: Easy to use, reliable.

Birdie Newcomb: Eloise has one as well

Margaret Michalski: @ Olivia, yes...but is it useful when you only a few students that really need it?

Olivia Hotshot: It is to those few students, Margaret.

Ignatius Onomatopoeia: good free radar HUD from Crystal Gadgets: http://crystalgadgets.com/

Marc Rexen: Imprudence is easier for radar/scanning. :)

Birdie Newcomb: The whisk-away chairs, to take a group somewhere

Olivia Hotshot: Emerald has radar as well, but it is in the bad child's seat.

Profdan Netizen: You also now have teh nearby tab in 2.1

Ignatius Onomatopoeia: @Marc..and most everything else. It's a fab client. Their URL is http://imprudenceviewer.org/

Kali Pizzaro: oh yeah radars are good

Margaret Michalski: @ Olivia, it is when you have too many that want to be help ful that things get out of control with translators : )

Kali Pizzaro: and translators

Brenda Jericho: whisk away chairs sound good - URL?

Kali Pizzaro: mmm good point Margaret

Birdie Newcomb: Don't know the URL. In Kenzo used them

Ignatius Onomatopoeia: @Brenda, the flying chairs for tours are part of the Mystitool package

Brenda Jericho: Oh....thank you!

Margaret Michalski: @ Kali, just imagine the transcript. : )

Birdie Newcomb: Shudda guessed.

Birdie Newcomb: Dudeney Ge has a box of free edtech tools.

Kali Pizzaro: i want one of the group teleports i saw somewhere anyone any ideas

Kali Pizzaro: sure i saw it or read about it

Jarrad Voom: or dreamed about it

Birdie Newcomb: His SpeakEasy is very helpful

Ignatius Onomatopoeia: yeah, translators are hell on the transcript. We tried it one time but it made AJ nuts. They don't work in large groups.

Graham Mills: That's on EduNation 2

Graham Mills: There's a free translator that uses IM rather than chat

Kali Pizzaro: haha Jerrod maybe

Graham Mills: So it doesn't spam so much

Ignatius Onomatopoeia: SLURL is old, but here is what I have for Speakeasy: http://slurl.com/secondlife/EduNation/141/137/25

Kali Pizzaro: no i defo saw a group teleport somewhere

Silver Ring with celtic cross cartouche: Could not find animation 'Twitter'

Margaret Michalski: @ Iggy, should have had one designated translator : )

Silver Ring with celtic cross cartouche: Could not find object 'Twitterball'.

Olivia Hotshot: OK< lets switch horses for a moment - What do we WISH or DREAM we had as tools to teach in VW?

Ignatius Onomatopoeia: true, that would help, Margaret. But the auto-settings ended up making a mess

Kali Pizzaro: naaaaaaaaaahhhhhh chance

Kali Pizzaro: sorry

Ewan Bonham: I would like a board to use for powerpoints..

Dabici Straulino: something to replace post-its in brainstorming session

Graham Mills: Edistorm is good

Graham Mills: (shared media app)

Ignatius Onomatopoeia: I'd love a follow-on tool for Scratch, the visual editor for scripting

Dabici Straulino: great thanks

Ute Frenburg: I'd like to carry my personal music stream with me

Ignatius Onomatopoeia: MIT's team stopped development

barbarathelibrarian Magic: Thank you! :-)

JeanClaude Vollmar: Groups, groups, and more groups. And notices to roles within groups!

Olivia Hotshot: check the box on the table folks, you should be able to take a copy

Alexsis Kamala: @ Ute maybe you could wear headphone or an ipod?

Ignatius Onomatopoeia: you can still get it at: http://web.mit.edu/~eric_r/Public/S4SL/ but the functionality is limited

Birdie Newcomb: Never used it but Decka Mah's extendable cupolas would work well for breaking a large class into teams

Olivia Hotshot: Thank you to Archivist Llewellyn for the box of goodies

Zotarah Shepherd clings to her old MystiTool that she ardly ever uses.

Dabici Straulino: as well, I am looking for a pen that allows you writing on screen saw one called jadepen or greenpen at rockcliffe U but unable to find it

JeanClaude Vollmar: Import of avatar name lists into groups

Graham Mills: I love Puppeteer for making simple animations

Birdie Newcomb: An answer bot

Birdie Newcomb: for faq

Profdan Netizen: I'd like to be able to adjust voice and text distances, so you can put students in groups without having to fling them across a sim.

Olivia Hotshot: Anyone still need the NASA box?

Margaret Michalski: yes please, Oliva

Graham Mills: Yes, I think protosphere allows you to limit sound to a particular space

Ignatius Onomatopoeia: btw, if you need a smile, watch the little video for Scratch for SL :)

Kali Pizzaro: i would like the ability to make things without major scripting

Kali Pizzaro: ;-)

Ewan Bonham: Yes, Kali

Graham Mills: The Virtually Human Gamekit is nice

Birdie Newcomb: holodecks could do that, Ewan

Ewan Bonham: Birdie...the powerpoints?

Margaret Michalski: @ kali, Right ...It would be great to have a avatar bot without trying to think of every single key word someone might ask.

Jarrad Voom: Yes nasa box, Olivia

Ignatius Onomatopoeia: Graham, URL please for that

Birdie Newcomb: @Ewan -- making whole scenes, with a simple button.

Kali Pizzaro: Working on it Margaret

Birdie Newcomb: But it takes a lot of preparation beforehand

Kali Pizzaro: i have some scripts i can share

Silver Ring with celtic cross cartouche: Could not find sound 'c923f3d9-83a6-99dc-9b7d-bbcdb3c307

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Ewan Bonham: ㋡ Birdie

Kali Pizzaro: ask me at the end

Graham Mills: Virtually Human Investigations, Firmament (203, 103, 29)

Profdan Netizen: What about tech help--anyone have suggestions on where to send students if they're needing some help in world?

Meredith Winslet: @Prof -- that would be helpful.

Marc Rexen: Unfortunately, the Welcome Areas are still the best place to get support.

Kali Pizzaro: Olivia only joking hahah

barbarathelibrarian Magic: Info Island International

Ignatius Onomatopoeia: Dan, that's the 64,000L question

Graham Mills: The new NMC Welcome sim

Birdie Newcomb: Best to ask other students

Birdie Newcomb: someone would figure it out

Graham Mills: Ivory Tower of Prims?

Ignatius Onomatopoeia: Thanks Graham. I'll make that a live SLURL in the transcript

Ignatius Onomatopoeia: what about the Caledonian university....looking for the SLURL

Marc Rexen: Add Torley's videos too...they actually are quite good.

Kali Pizzaro: free clothes for hospitals are good

Kali Pizzaro: scrubs etc

Birdie Newcomb: yay Torley

Olivia Hotshot: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Oxbridge/92/198/28

Olivia Hotshot: There it is Iggy

Kali Pizzaro: or for any simulation

Ignatius Onomatopoeia: Caledon Oxbridge...TY Olivia

Birdie Newcomb: Yadni's Junkyard

Kali Pizzaro: you still got the scalpel Iggy

Birdie Newcomb: great resource

Margaret Michalski: @ Kali, I am behind you on that one.

Marc Rexen: Love sending new residents to Yadni's.

Ignatius Onomatopoeia: I do, Kali! It glows a bit much for the simulation :)

Kali Pizzaro: Iste is good for picking up freebies

Kali Pizzaro: hah

Graham Mills: International Schools Island is good too -- shablesguru voom

Olivia Hotshot: Is there a tool that people use presently that they cannot do without?

barbarathelibrarian Magic: Radar

Ignatius Onomatopoeia: Yadni's Junkyard at: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Leda/217/20/53

Kali Pizzaro: simple note card giver script

Profdan Netizen: U of Cincinnati bookstore good place for free clothes.

Marc Rexen: Conovers $50 Flight Helper...still works, still supported...still lets me go through walls.

Kali Pizzaro: floating text

barbarathelibrarian Magic: flight feather

Olivia Hotshot: last call on the science box

Kali Pizzaro: my heart sounds simulator haha

Kali Pizzaro: sorry plug plug

Kali Pizzaro: scripts i think for me

Birdie Newcomb: landmarks

Kali Pizzaro: allow me to creat stuff quickly

Olivia Hotshot: I am with radar as one of my fav tools. i like knowing if people can hear me or see my text - communication is so important.

Ignatius Onomatopoeia: you can get free Victorian textures at our House of Usher Visitor Center plus four sets of Victorian clothes expertly done by Viv Trafalgar: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Richmond/128/128/2

Kali Pizzaro: yeah radar

Birdie Newcomb: xstreetsl

Birdie Newcomb: still free stuff

Profdan Netizen: I'd like notecards that are more than text, like URLs.

Ignatius Onomatopoeia loves Mystitool for quick meetings and times when AJ forgets to leave a table here :)

barbarathelibrarian Magic: me too Profdan

Kali Pizzaro: yeah mystitool is good

Birdie Newcomb: whiteboard

Kali Pizzaro: our wee trolley that emails me the students note cards

Kali Pizzaro: very handy

Zotarah Shepherd: Mystitool is the first one I recommend to new people

barbarathelibrarian Magic: i have a builders platform that was free and it is nice to work on when you need some free space

Ignatius Onomatopoeia: @Kali, that would be a cool thing to have for visitor's suggestions at Usher...got a copy handy of that wee trolley?

Kali Pizzaro: but the biggest thing is my tech guy Andy woop woop for Andy

Kali Pizzaro: i will speak to Andy

Kali Pizzaro: what a team

Kali Pizzaro: hehe

Profdan Netizen: Agreed, Kali, would be great to have for a record of student submissions.

barbarathelibrarian Magic: megaprims

Kali Pizzaro: Im me later prof

Ignatius Onomatopoeia: we'll pay him for it! Our budget runs into the hundreds of dollars (in Lindens :)

Kali Pizzaro: i will see what i can do

Zotarah Shepherd: Sim counters are great too, especially ones that report to a website with the time spent in that area.

Kali Pizzaro: haha Iggy

Ignatius Onomatopoeia: Yes, and a lag meter if you are building

Kali Pizzaro: oh that is good Zo

barbarathelibrarian Magic: my texture organizer which was free

Birdie Newcomb: machinima

Profdan Netizen: Zo, can you recommend one?

Olivia Hotshot: No one has mentioned chat relay systems - really a great tool for larger groups

Birdie Newcomb: group permissions, roles, chat

barbarathelibrarian Magic: i dont know much about them olivia

Kali Pizzaro: is it like a twitter feed

Dabici Straulino: does anyone know about meeting moderation tools

Olivia Hotshot: @barbara - they allow chat to go over sim borders and extend past standard limits.

Kali Pizzaro: feeds the chat onto a big board?

barbarathelibrarian Magic: ooooo

Kali Pizzaro: oh like Olivia

Graham Mills: chat recorders

Ignatius Onomatopoeia: Kali, don't talk about the "Big Board"

Olivia Hotshot: OK, picking up NASA box.

Ignatius Onomatopoeia: Dr. Strangelove...favorite film

Birdie Newcomb: tip jars

Margaret Michalski: Thanks Oliva

Meredith Winslet: Thanks Olivia

Olivia Hotshot: welcome Margaret

Olivia Hotshot: Please thank Archivist llewellyn

Mikie Swords: thanks olivia

Margaret Michalski: Ok! Thanks Archivist

Margaret Michalski: :)

Lali Latte: thank you

Kali Pizzaro: 5 mins

Zotarah Shepherd: Thanks Archivist and thank Olivia too. ; )

Kali Pizzaro: 35 on the sim

Graham Mills: Jen Forager runs a tools-oriented group called tools.jam -- sometimes get freebies, beta tests there

Olivia Hotshot: So lets bring this to a close folks. I think what it gets down to is we want simple, free, fast, and if we get fun in the deal we REALLY like it.

Profdan Netizen: And fun!

Profdan Netizen: Definitely.

barbarathelibrarian Magic: this was great i am sorry i was late...the commute was bad

Olivia Hotshot: My suggestion is to reread this transcript and if you see a tool you like that someone is using, please contact them.

Profdan Netizen: And easy.

Zotarah Shepherd makes notes. Thanks Graham I wonder why she didn't tell me.

Ewan Bonham: Yep.

Kali Pizzaro: woop fun dont tell anyone we are having fun in education

Ignatius Onomatopoeia: Even good tools, like our sim-counter/chatbot/parrot don't cost much--under 1000L

Olivia Hotshot: The best tool you can have is a friendly, fun fellow educator.

barbarathelibrarian Magic: YAY!

Kali Pizzaro: amen to that Olivia

Birdie Newcomb: a helper

Ewan Bonham: Yeah!

Libor Ibor: It was great today ... Thanks and bye ;)´

Margaret Michalski: @ Oliva, you got that right : )

Kali Pizzaro: cheers Libor

Lali Latte: Thank you!

Olivia Hotshot: Now then, go off and knock 'em dead. Good luck for a wonderful semester/school year!

Ute Frenburg: @Olivia..totally agree!!!

Zotarah Shepherd: I like how food with portions and animations make SL more warm and welcoming = Immersive

barbarathelibrarian Magic: Thank you! :-)

Margaret Michalski: Thanks Olivia

Ignatius Onomatopoeia: woot to that

Alexsis Kamala: Thanks for all the good ideas and URLs

Brenda Jericho: Thanks everyone!

Kali Pizzaro: Monday looms haha

Hattie Haystack: Thanks Olivia for moderating!!

Marc Rexen: Careful with this transcript...it's worth it's weight in gold. :)

Zotarah Shepherd: Yay Olivia

Olivia Hotshot: Welcome to all. The members of this group rock.

Silhshoot Seelowe: Thank you Olivia

Meredith Winslet: Thank you. Interesting as always.

Kali Pizzaro: cheers Marc

LoCE99Ch8 Morpork: Excellent round table with lots of good information, Thanks to all!

Ignatius Onomatopoeia: I'll save it out now to be sure. And Margaret has a copy too

Profdan Netizen: Excellent discussion--we started today, Kali.