Second Life

Wow --- I have had no luck connecting to a SL conference session. I have not given up-- The Gronstedt Group is to be in session now, however, I cannot teleport in directly to the Gronstedt Group Train for Success. I asked the instructor for permission. No reply! Anyway - while waiting, I found Gronstedt group prerecorded session on the Youtube. IBM and Schneider Electric are collaborating R & D projects. I was wondering if Big business had started on SL. It has been my experience, that new recruited talent, bring to emerging technologies to Corporations. Corporations have $ to invest and fund these projects.
http://www.gronstedtgroup.com/

Here is the link of the pre-recorded Train for success SL:

Anders Gronstedt Here are my notes and summary as I listened to the audio discussion from 6/17
The Think Bomb Island - what is the business value of 2L(ROI), the work related use is presently in pilot, emersive technology. Measure valued is mixed, few/some businesses have recoup their investments in 9 months(rapid return on investment). Variety of work related cases are: meetings and conferences, (ie., 80% on learning and training, 46% meetings, 10% rehearsal, business practices, security and fire drills, internal and external meetings. Raw data uses business budgets, to compare strong business. Survey raw data can be displayed, HR, and business operations. People are applying smaller uses, larger uses will jump in as soon as vendors and developers will provide solutions. What are the alternatives? There is a feeling of confusion --- LOL -- I know the feeling. Use of multiple technologies, wikis, which increases engagment - being together face to face, connected together virtually...we all can see who falls asleep, who moves ahead, who is curious!!! Save an excel as note card and bring tools into SL ---- VIP. What is the cost of implementing? It decreases cost, no travel! <$25K to <$10K Small amount for large corporation. Minimal person hours to rollout -- 1 week (4 people a week). Wow, thats short. I have been in projects that take months and years.

Audio was good for me, b/c I had to concentrate and visualize the SL emerging movement in business. In closing, SL emersive tech appears to be gaining in increasing usage and believe that value is added and will increase their investments in the emersive technologies.

Embedding media

OMG --- I finally found the code to embed the slideshow and the audio.
The embeded html is not straight forward and I was making it harder than what it was. The embedded html does not have the names i would expect to have in it ---


I found it my researching how to embed flickr slide showa and I found the flicker slider in which your flickr url is captured and tags and one other field and the code is generated. Follow this on CMSimple By the way, the pictures are in normal sequence. I wish to fix them when I have more time.

It is easy if the correct code is found first, otherwise it can be searching for a needle in a haystack

adios and goodnight

Embedded Flickr Photostream

Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.

Embedded YouTube VIdeo

        

 

 

 

Video Pictures and Audio

I opened a Flicker account and loaded recent family photos.
My daughters, Lauren and Haylee and Laurens boyfriend Charlie.
This process was very easy, my problem was selecting the right photos for grouping. I can continue my downloads and organize them by event and years. I have many photos that could be organized and my relatives and immediate family can easily follow my past and present life and interests.

My first audio quest was in Soundtrack, but it was very busy and crammed with functionality I'm not ready for, so I switched to Audio Share, because other classmates had used it and liked the presentation of it. Audio Share is very user friendly.

Lastly, video --- I've never been a fan of self-video projects, It's my generation and up-bringing, we rarely took pictures, so when I started, my hardest task was doing the video. Loading and submitting it to YouTube was a cinch! Navigation is easy and I can see why it has become so popular, it really is effortless to load and share video.

Chow!

Embedding media

Hi

I have had good luck embedding my Youtube video. The embedded code from youtube is slick, and the bomb. I have been wrestling with the audio. My original audio files are too large and so I recorded some shorter childrens books, but I have still working the code. I even went back to my soundboard account, but am having trouble with it. I could not find embedded code source in Audio share.... I am still looking....

CMSimple


stay tuned

Wikimedia experience

Wow!
There is much more to the wiki_world than I realized. I first read some of my classmates comments. I wanted to know what they reviewed in hopes not to repeat their content. I found all the wiki medias interesting, however, I was drawn to the WIKINEWS, and WIKISOURCE and WIKIBOOKS. I liked WIKINEWS, it has a rolling - scroll on top, I can stay logged on and informed just by reading the top headliners and if I want more detail, I click on the article, because the artical. .because it displayed so many articles on one screen. I could pick what I wanted to read about. I am annoyed at local TV news anchors and network news anchors. I can read much faster than what they read aloud, and there are only a few news delivery I really like. Others are boring and seem to repeat comments day afer day, I do not like when they add humor, b/c most often they are not funny. Sooooo --- I prefer to read my news, and WIKInews is perfect. I can select what I want to read. I can also select the category in Wikinews.
I liked WIKIsource because it contains a full genre of books, and I can access them from anywhere--- I am on a business trip or find myself needing something to do, I can always go on Wikisource or Wikibooks to select and read a good book. I found the autobiographies of Henry Ford and Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin in the WikiSource, and found a plethora of open-source books in WikiBooks. Here I can again select a book of interest, whether it is a book on oncology, history, science, or how to assemble a computer. I like the outline format, this design will help me remember where I ended reading.

I like them all and I know I will be reading them long after this class ends!

My Wikipedia Experience

Here is my example of putting the cart before the horse. I have been disoriented in this class and have had a difficult time keeping up. Actually, I'm thinking because the course starting without organization, I was disorganized and was unable to follow the moduled assignments. Anyway, I catching up. I have been able to create the other wiki entries by following the code. Now that I have viewed the WIKI tutorial, I can follow the tabs (very self explanatory) and when I need a refresher on functions, I can go to the tutorial.

Aufweidesien

Iris

Audio Recording

Hi again!@

here is my Audio recordings. They are created in Audio Share. I found Audio Share, very easy. I started with SoundTrack, but found it to be confusing and user unfriendly. Through trial and erro I was able to determine what was needed.
Luckily I had created Audacity sound recordings in a previous class, and had them saved. Audacity can easily export the AUD file to the MP3 format. Usually, I do not have luck converting project files.
I like the Organization features in AUDIO SHARE. I can easily organize them by genre and album. I have several family recordings that I can preserve on the web.