Dia de Los muertos at the Smithsonian Museum of Latino Music on PhotoPeach
Nany Kayo took us ...exploring this unique Mexican holiday at the Smithsonian Museum of Latino Music. There, I got to make my own altar. It was really interesting. Got all the materials as well as cards with step to step guidelines. It was easy and fun to make an altar to celebrate Dias de Los Muertos-The Day of the Dead -. We visited Celia Cruz, and the famous painter Frida Khalo's tomb to show our respect.
Thanks Nany and Virtual Pioneers.. we had a great experience that day. Also when writing this post and creating the slide show. I had to pick a song to accompany the show.. so I selected Celia Cruz' Quimbara .. a song I love.. and that I have danced all my life... of course ..in the middle of working I stopped and danced this..one my fav Salsa song. La rumba me esta llamando...Bongo dile que ya voy.... Azucar!!!
Pio got invited to attend this wonderful series.. on Building Community, using simple tools and buiding for events. These are basic skills for an educator that uses this kind of envirotments to teach. Meet Sharon Collingwood, in this machinima we can listen to her voice and an example of what to expect when experiencing great adventure.
The American Association of University Women’s lecture series in Second Life will be starting up again next week with a series of workshops on conducting group meetings in virtual worlds. If you have been thinking of starting a group, establishing meetings or seminars or teaching in virtual worlds, these free workshops should be useful to you. The workshops will be held at Minerva, the research and study space for the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Ohio State University.
The workshops are at the beginner level; you may wish to take only one, or you may attend all three. If you feel insecure about your avatar skills you can attend an informal orientation session in the hour preceding the workshop. During the workshops you will be given a set of free and customizable tools; you will be shown how to use these tools (written instructions are also included in your toolkit) and you will have the time to practice with them.
Checklist for joining a workshop:
Download the Phoenix Firestorm viewer: We will be using the Firestorm viewer because it has a simpler interface. If you are experienced in another viewer, please use whatevery you are comfortable with.
Unsure of your avatar skills? If you would like to practice before the workshops begin, you are welcome to use Minerva Island, it’s a very quiet place to work or study, and it is open to the public.
E-mail Sharon Collingwood (collingwood.7@osu.edu) to reserve a space in the workshops. Please include your name and avatar name.
Workshop 1: BUILDING COMMUNITY
Saturday, August 13 at 4pm Eastern Time (1pm Pacific)
There will be an informal orientation session in the hour preceding the workshop.
In this first workshop we’ll cover basic avatar skills (moving around, looking around, communication), then discuss how communities grow in virtual worlds. We’ll practice setting up a group and discuss how to use groups in networking, then look at some of the tools for membership management. We’ll conclude with a tour of the Garden for Change, which replicates an award-winning garden built by volunteers from homeless shelters for the Chelsea flower show in 2010.
Workshop 2: USING SIMPLE TOOLS
Saturday, August 20 at 4pm Eastern Time (1pm Pacific)
There will be an informal orientation session in the hour preceding the workshop.
2. open the link using the Phoenix Firestorm viewer
(see instructions on our events page http://bit.ly/1tnCb1)
We’ll review what was done in the first workshop, then you will be given some simple tools to facilitate a group discussion. We’ll practice with these, then conclude with a tour of the Path of Support on Health Info Island, which features over 100 of the many active health peer support groups in Second Life.
Workshop 3: SIMPLE BUILDING FOR EVENTS
Saturday, August 27 at 4pm Eastern Time (1pm Pacific)
There will be an informal orientation session in the hour preceding the workshop.
In this final workshop we’ll practice what we have learned, then go over some simple techniques for creating objects to facilitate gatherings. You will be given a collection of open source seating arrangements for large and small gatherings, and instructed on how to manage them. We will conclude with a tour of the Plush Nonprofit Commons, an archipelago of islands in Second Life housing social benefit organizations from around the globe.
Hope you don't miss thi s great opportunity and see you there!
Keep on shining Love and Peace!
Pionia Destiny
Machinima of Frideswide sim in Second Life, an immersive exhibit by the First World War Poetry Virtual Archive, University of Oxford. This sim offers an amazing virtual experience of the Western Front trenches and British encampments of the Great War, and poetry inspired by the war. Sim opened Nov 2, 2009. Machinima by Tara Yeats; sim builder CSteph Submariner.
Poetry of The Great War-Western front 1914-1918 on PhotoPeach
Those were some screenshots of the experience. Walking the trenches and listening to the ghost stories was an unique experience.
You can find out more about The First World War Poetry Digital Archive in its online repository of over 7000 items of text, images, audio, and video for teaching, learning, and research.
World War 1 Poets Showreel
This experience was an excelente oportunity to learn, share, read and listen to English in a more natural way. .. well, no t that naturaly but it sure was very meaningful and memorable.
Nany Kayo took us ...exploring this unique Mexican holiday at the Smithsonian Museum of Latino Music. There, I got to make my own altar. It was really interesting. Got all the materials as well as cards with step to step guidelines. It was easy and fun to make an altar to celebrate Dias de Los Muertos-The Day of the Dead -. We visited Celia Cruz, and the famous painter Frida Khalo's tomb to show our respect.