I was talking to my web programming seminar about regular expressions and made an allusion to the xkcd comic on that topic. Unfortunately, none of them had seen it, probably because none of them were familiar with xkcd.
Students should become familiar with the concepts and practice of the discipline, but also with the culture and [...]
One of my friendly librarian colleagues in SL asked if I had a script to generate dialogs and allow users to select notecards handy. I didn’t, so I coded it up. It seems like it could be useful to others, so here you go:
This script is in LSL, for Second Life. Just copy and paste [...]
I’m at SXSW, and I want an ability to see the latest Tweets from the group of Twitterers that I follow who are here in the area. I also have a limited number of text messages on my phone (1500, but still).
I coded up a quick app that allows you to great a group of [...]
My research group had some fun controlling SL with a Wii-mote a few weeks ago. It’s easier than you think! Several people have asked how we did it, so I hope these quick instructions might come in handy.
Download, install, and run DarwiinRemote.
Turn Bluetooth on on the Macbook. You can do this by opening the Bluetooth [...]
Twitter rocks. It’s useful for all kinds of things, but especially for chronicling a live event as it happens, including the pre-event discussion and post-conference wrapup.
We’re very excited to be hosting NewB Camp here in Providence, RI on February 23rd. In preparation for the event, Sara created a NewBCamp Twitter account and I coded up [...]
The vendor containing this hat was recently deleted from Virtual Morocco by an employee of Linden Lab without any notification to me. Why? Because an anonymous person complained that it is “broadly offensive”.
Virtual Morocco was created to be both a tourism promotion platform and a space for cultural exchange. It was built entirely by undergraduate [...]
I was immensely privileged to participate in the first ever Teen Second Life College Fair. The event was on the Eye4You Alliance TSL island. At least 18 institutions were represented (see some of the booths in the image to the left), and approximately 200 teens attended.
I gave a short presentation on my own educational [...]
I’m teaching a basic web design course this term that covers design concepts, XHTML, and CSS. The students are from a variety of backgrounds - some have knowledge of HTML, some are non-majors or non-credit students looking to pick up a useful skill, and many are complete beginners who are required to take the course [...]
I found out about Plopp SecondLife from a tweet and had to give it a try.
The concept is brilliant. You sketch an object in a paint-like interface, hit a button, and it automagically extrudes to 3D. You can then hit another button and export a sculptie map and texture for Second Life.
There are still two [...]
I was very pleased to be invited to speak at last Thursday’s BrainGain event on virtual worlds. This event was co-sponsored by Harvard Business School and the Harvard Interactive Media group.
The emerging theme of the event was the high-quality of virtual world experiences for education and business. The word “experience” was used frequently, and there [...]