Second+Life+Field+Trip


 * What: Field Trip to Second Life**

Rebecca Newton
 * Who is Leading:**

Thursday, Feb 1st, 8pm ET (look for Prissy Pratt if you don't hear from me ahead of time).
 * Date:**

Saturday, Feb 3rd, 1pm ET (ditto)


 * HOW TO SET UP YOUR AVATAR:** (see more how to below)

1) [|www.secondlife.com] and click JOIN (they upgrade on Wednesdays so avoid a Wednesday). Choose a name, fill out all the info, download the client, set up the client, then send me (becs@sulake.com) your Avatar name in SL.

2) Launch SL, you'll end up in the noob area with all kinds of stuff to read. Please read it all. Just stand there and read it. Other people will land on your head etc. but that's ok. It's an area for new folks so you can stand there all you want.

3) I will send you a notecard with some links so we can meet. You just click the blue link (hyperlink) and voila, if all is working well, you should arrive). If it's not working, it'll say it can't teleport you. That's ok too. I can send you an IM until we get you there.

4) Weekends are bad for SL. Serious lag occurs due to so many residents in-world. 50% of the fun for me is the glitchyness :) but I realise it's not fun if you're new.

5) I'm going to use one of my avatars, namely, Prissy Pratt for this field trip.

6) Nova Albion Infohub - Miramare, Miramare (7, 23, 25) is a landing info hub for new residents. I'll send the link in the notecards as well but for any adventurous types, those are the coordinates. Click on MAP and enter the coordinates in the SEARCH field of the MAP tab, and then click SEARCH and go.

Rebecca

Nova Albion Infohub - Miramare, Miramare (7, 23, 25) is a landing info hub for new residents.
 * Where in SL:**

Join Rebecca's group please (Online Community Geeks), once you're in SL, and she can send out group notices instead of individual IMs.

Back up: Nick Noakes (Corwin Carillon in SL) offered -=-> You are welcome to my space in Second Life, Boracay Island, as part of the field trip. http://tinyurl.com/36j9ay

Anne Papina (SL: Vampina Giotto(?); AIM: annabananasf; e-mail: amp (at) apweb (dot) com) Janet E. Salmons Paul Schumann Eric Hoffer Jeffrey Keefer Elissa Perry (SL: ecat Bayliss) Elderbob Branom Emma Duke-Williams (SL: Emmadw Rickenbacker) Andy Roberts, SL: Eugene Perenti Tia Carr Williams, aka Tiaka Kobeshimi. John Williams (who suggests [|http://www.synthravels.com] as a possible way to do this) BG Wennersten Nancy White - SL Choconancy Lupino, Skype choconancy Stephen Thorpe, SL - Stephen Haigh, Skype - stephenthorpenz, AIM - stevodevo88. Barbara Steinberg Joe Ugoretz-- Second Life name is Roland Melville Jane Horan Christie Mason [|Steve Bridger] aka Joe Boa Julie Ann Turner, aka Light Raymaker Dorothy Krause, potentially (DK Kram, if you find me there, looking lost and lonely, wave hello) Sylvia Currie. SL: WebbedFeat Fapp Michael Coghlan (Michael Sani in world) Sheri (Akhasia Karas in world,cascadiasheri for Skype) Gabriela Avram gabriela.avram at gmail dot com Josephine Fraser josephine_fraser at yahoo dot co.uk Sharon Buffington"  Jon Lebkowsky (jon.lebkowsky at gmail.com) SL jonl Trumbo LaDonna Coy (coyenator at gmail dot com) My SL name is LaDonna Link and Skype: ladonnacoy
 * Who is interested:**

Rebecca: We can have as large or small a group as we want. If we have Skype or AIM going in the background so we can communicate out-of-world until we get each other's names in-world, that would be best. You can't get to the noob camp without creating an avatar. So we'd need to coordinate with finding the new SL residents and then meeting up with current SL residents. Cart before the horse... let's see who all signs up!
 * Notes:**

Paul, our cohost (Wizairde Drake) writes:
 * More specific directions/how to**

For tonight, here is what I highly recommend you complete as your **'pre-class homework.**'


 * 1) Download the software, install and sign up.
 * 2) Everyone should log in ***early*** to ensure you don't need an update. On highspeed, an update is about 15 minutes to download and install.
 * 3) Proceed through the SL tutorial that you will be introduced to when you log in.
 * 4) *Don't worry about your avatar* too greatly much, you have all the time in the world to change, update, dress etc. It took me months to get something I liked. So to answer the earlier question re: not liking your avatar - yes it can be easily changed from anything to a normal person to a giant M&M to an Egyptian god.
 * 5) To join the group, the fastest and easiest way would be to hit Control F (this is how you FIND just about everything) and click the Groups tab. Type in: Online Community Geeks it will search for a bit and find probably just one group. Click it and verify it says established by Prissy Prat. Look for the option to join, it will say the cost is L$ 0.
 * 6) I'll (Paul - Wizairde Drake) be in world a little after 6:30PM EST to help those who are struggling or want a little extra boost in the 'holy cow I've never been near this thing before.' department.

For the video card question, IMHO all you can do is try and see. You can turn off just about everything video wise and see if you can get in. Worst case, no, best case - you run it okay with bare minimum graphics.

Do we need folks' skype or AIM names?
 * Coordinating Skype:**

Beth Kanter suggests going to some of the regularly scheduled SL field trips via the New Media Consortium http://www.nmc.org/sl/calendar/