Caledon Oxbridge Q&A for 2016-03-13

15:07 Carl Metropolitan Hello all the people who just came in!
15:08 Carl Metropolitan Welcome to 3pm SLT
15:08 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) We may have Cymbal crowds nor in addition to Lindal ones...
15:08 Carl Metropolitan The federal government has inflicted time travel on all of us.
15:08 Phrynne it's an accounting problem.
15:08 Carl Metropolitan That's my excuse, and I'm sticking to it.
15:08 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Happens in EUrope in two weeks.
15:08 Wordsmith Jarvinen Apart from AZ and HI.
15:09 Brace Coral nods and smiles :)
15:10 Wordsmith Jarvinen Phrynne, do you have anything this week?
15:10 Carl Metropolitan Welcome to Q&A with the deans. I just woke up. I have no idea why. I can't even blame the time shift.
15:10 Russell A. Firecrest (adventureruss) :)
15:10 Carl Metropolitan let's Wordsmith talk as Wordsmith seems to be awake.
15:11 Phrynne Not really. I've had a lot of computer problems and have been offline much of the week, so when I'm here I've been checking on things in the plaza, or doing a little fine-tuning to the spring decorations.
15:11 Phrynne That's about it.
15:11 Wordsmith Jarvinen Spring decorations?
15:11 Brace Coral waves at Dove :)
15:11 Dove (dovelady88) waves back at Brace ㋡
15:11 Wordsmith Jarvinen (Phrynne works to keep Oxbridge seasonally attractive)
15:11 Phrynne Some of the plants have higher prim counts than I like, so I'm trying to swap them for equally attractive but lower prim versions.
15:12 Phrynne And adjusting colors on some of the small trees, so they look more like redbud and plum and a little less fluorescent :)
15:12 Wordsmith Jarvinen Ahh, keep more prims available for (hopefully larger) classes.
15:12 Carl Metropolitan Do you have mod rights to my stuff? So you can move it if needed.
15:12 Phrynne I don't think I do, Carl. I can't do anything with your trees
15:13 Dove (dovelady88) Dean Phrynne, you are *so cute* as a bunny
15:13 Phrynne it's a secret weapon, Dove. Makes people think I'm harmless.
15:13 Brace Coral hehehe
15:13 Dove (dovelady88) hehehe
15:13 Carl Metropolitan You have my mod rights
15:13 Phrynne thank you!
15:13 Brace Coral hi paws Phrynne :)
15:13 Carl Metropolitan I will check to see if I have locked them
15:13 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) looks around for plot bunnies
15:14 Wordsmith Jarvinen Good.
15:14 Curei I wanted you all to know that I was able to take a magnificent aerial picture of this beautiful university for SimSearcher's virtual reality article.
15:14 Wordsmith Jarvinen Very nice., Curei.
15:14 Carl Metropolitan Oh. Will you be able to share the URL with us soon?
15:15 Curei Thank you. I had a wonderful subject. It's an article for a national magazine. I don't know if it will also be digital.
15:15 Wordsmith Jarvinen I was also happy to see that the VWBPE website had our latest website masthead picture rotating through.
15:15 Brace Coral FYI Unscheduled Maintenance is happening now: http://status.secondlifegrid.net/category/slgridstatus/ plse be careful
15:16 Dove (dovelady88) groans
15:16 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) As usual...
15:16 Aevalle Galicia-Constantine (aevalle.galicia) Slunday Slunday Slunday!
15:17 Carl Metropolitan Keep us informed!. I'd love to buy a copy
15:17 Wordsmith Jarvinen Brace, how's settling in going? Any observations? Problems? Needs? Desires?
15:17 Brace Coral I'm do very well so far :) Carl will get me up to speed and Phrynne and pretty much all staff has already been such a great help
15:17 Wordsmith Jarvinen (Please note that Brace is now officially the Oxbridge Dean of Development)
15:17 Curei I think it's scheduled for Discover Magazine and I believe it will be sometime this mid-fall season.
15:18 Dove (dovelady88) woohoo!
15:18 Brace Coral So right now, just settling in and looking forward to fundraising and stuff :D
15:18 Wordsmith Jarvinen Come talk with me at some point about sponsors and ad boards.
15:18 Brace Coral rubs her hands together and grins wickedly
15:18 Brace Coral I will!
15:19 Brace Coral and please friend me if you need/want to
15:19 Brace Coral that goes for anyone :)
15:19 Brace Coral I'm always available to help out
15:19 Wordsmith Jarvinen You're there, in my case.
15:19 Brace Coral Yay!
15:20 Wordsmith Jarvinen Carl?
15:20 Carl Metropolitan Well, my main focus last week was VWBPE, Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education
15:20 Carl Metropolitan We were the featured panel on Friday
15:21 Carl Metropolitan I'm going to cut and paste here
15:21 Carl Metropolitan Speaking for Oxbridge were myself (Oxbridge co-creator and Chancellor—Carl Metropolitan in Second Life), Wordsmith Jarvinen (Vice Chancellor at Oxbridge, Dean of Education, Oxbridge Webmaster), Larkylou (former Oxbridge Dean), Aevalle Galicia / Stacy “Stasia” Lynne Weston (who wrote and defended her PhD dissertation—in part—on Oxbridge and the Particle Lab), Andrea Jones (an extremely dedicated Oxbridge volunteer), and Nyree Rain (an established resident of Caledon and Second Life, who used Oxbridge as a new resident).
15:21 Carl Metropolitan Ravelli Ormstein (Oxbridge’s former Dean of Information and current Mesh Master) videoed the entire panel and has up on YouTube. So if you missed it, and have some time to kill learning about Oxbridge and Second Life in-world education, take a look at it.
15:21 Carl Metropolitan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAV4R9KZA4M
15:21 Carl Metropolitan It was a very sucessful panel
15:22 Brace Coral it was!
15:22 Carl Metropolitan We also did the formal annoucement of Brace joining us there, too.
15:22 Brace Coral that was awesome :) I got teary-eyed RL
15:22 Aevalle Galicia-Constantine (aevalle.galicia) :D
15:22 Wordsmith Jarvinen Awwww.
15:22 Carl Metropolitan Other news...
15:23 Wordsmith Jarvinen VWBPE is slowly getting other presentations up for 2016. See https://www.youtube.com/user/VWBPE
15:24 Carl Metropolitan Aevalle will soon be joining our staff here as "Dean of Something Something" where she will focus on helping Oxbridge interface with real life educational institutions and a variety of other related things. We are working on a better title and job description.
15:24 Carl Metropolitan Though I do like "Dean of Something Something"
15:24 Brace Coral :)
15:24 Aevalle Galicia-Constantine (aevalle.galicia) snerks
15:25 Carl Metropolitan I'm also trying to persuade her to renew her SL/Steamlands tours :)
15:25 Wordsmith Jarvinen We get to bring her up on stage? ;)
15:25 Phrynne We have space!
15:25 Carl Metropolitan Yes. Very soon !
15:25 Brace Coral looks for her lasso
15:25 Wordsmith Jarvinen Which would be great (tours).
15:25 Dove (dovelady88) hehehe
15:25 Aevalle Galicia-Constantine (aevalle.galicia) Wrath and I were working on a pitch for a new class series--not ready yet!
15:25 Carl Metropolitan Hello Andrea!
15:25 Carl Metropolitan You are looking very David Bowie today
15:26 Carl Metropolitan Oxbridge has always prided itself on outreach to real life education institutions.
15:27 Wordsmith Jarvinen Prior professors have a very low hurdle to jump to get classes "approved".
15:27 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) ty
15:27 Carl Metropolitan But that's always kind of been dumped on either Commons or Development or Chancellor as a side task.
15:28 Wordsmith Jarvinen Rewords it quickly: That honor has generally added to the tasks of Commons, Development, or Chancellor.....
15:29 Carl Metropolitan Okay. That works, too.
15:29 Brace Coral lol
15:30 Wordsmith Jarvinen You never saw his first statement, Aevalle.
15:30 Carl Metropolitan There is still time to see our exhibit at VWBPE, too. But if you miss it, don't worry, it will be recycled for SL birthday too :)
15:30 Phrynne hides the big eraser
15:30 Brace Coral I love that it's circular
15:31 Wordsmith Jarvinen It's a nice exhibit, including the thematic stained glass that Martini did for our buildings.
15:31 Wordsmith Jarvinen Anything else as an announcement, Carl?
15:32 Carl Metropolitan Probably, but I'm too out of it to remember :)
15:32 Brace Coral slips Phrynne a couple of pint sized carrots when nobody's lookin
15:33 Phrynne nibbles a carrot
15:33 Wordsmith Jarvinen As part of my prep for VWBPE, I put together a few graphs. What's up now is a new map that Carl put together. It has a perspective that allows seeing the buildings as buildings, rather than as colored splotches on the terrain.
15:35 Wordsmith Jarvinen As of last Sunday, this was Marion Questi's (former Dean of Engines) ongoing plots of First Day and First Week avatars visiting Oxbridge.
15:37 Brace Coral Are these available for viewing somewhere? On the website, or as textures?
15:37 Wordsmith Jarvinen A graph showing student hours of attendance (hopefully learning) provided over and extended time. Part of the decrease has been the loss of some key expertise (e.g. Martini for clothes design), some do to smaller classes.
15:38 Wordsmith Jarvinen I'll be putting those up on the web on a new page linked from the home, Brace. Likely Tuesday since I've got a RL commitment tomorrow.
15:38 Brace Coral ok great! ty :)
15:40 Wordsmith Jarvinen This shows the age histogram (from rez date) of those coming into our classes. The Trivial Pursuit part would be larger, except that Carl has had other commitments (i.e. not teaching for a while).
15:40 [Second Life Fake Default Representation (poriferaThief) is now known as poriferaThief.]
15:42 Wordsmith Jarvinen This one is older, but was the data from a several month period of collecting data on the freebie avatars. I've data on other freebies now that I still need to analyze and Phrynne "instrumented" some new frieebies this past week.
15:42 Brace Coral Yay!
15:43 Carl Metropolitan I would like to offer the job of running a weekly trivia game to anyone who's interested. The host would get a copy of my set, my magic green text thing, and my ~3600 trivia question database.
15:43 Wordsmith Jarvinen Same data as the last one, but showing the hour of the data versus total avatars distributed.
15:43 Carl Metropolitan I would like to offer the job of running a weekly trivia game to anyone who's interested. The host would get a copy of my set, my magic green text thing, and my ~3600 trivia question database.
15:43 Brace Coral magic!
15:44 Carl Metropolitan Think about it.
15:44 Carl Metropolitan Oh, and the new host would not have to put up some of their money for prizes, either :)
15:44 Wordsmith Jarvinen BTW, the display is one prim LI mesh with scripting as a slide show (I just commented out the timer based updates).
15:45 Wordsmith Jarvinen That's an available staff resource.
15:45 Brace Coral I'll trade you three cookies for one!
15:45 Carl Metropolitan So contact me if you want to start an exciting career in the field of Second Life Game Show hosting!
15:45 Brace Coral grins at Carl :D
15:45 Aevalle Galicia-Constantine (aevalle.galicia) earperks at the mention of cookies
15:46 Aevalle Galicia-Constantine (aevalle.galicia) woot!
15:46 Brace Coral tosses a cookie to Aevalle :)
15:46 Brace Coral ok that sounded bad
15:46 Brace Coral lol
15:46 Wordsmith Jarvinen I can see some trading coming up.... Cookies from Brace for the screen ... cookes to Aevalle ... yet to be negotiated.
15:46 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Brace for cookies :-)
15:47 Carl Metropolitan We are forgetting to ask for questions!
15:47 Wordsmith Jarvinen That's now!
15:47 Wordsmith Jarvinen Questions?
15:47 Camie Rembrandt I have a question. Camp NaNoWriMo April starts in a few weeks. Will there be any Camp NaNoWriMo related events at Oxbridge?
15:48 Wordsmith Jarvinen Nobody has proposed such to me. There may be in greater Caledon, however.
15:48 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) Brace Coral gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
15:49 Wordsmith Jarvinen Elfbiter, do you have anything related in your writer's group?
15:49 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) It is going relatively well.
15:49 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) ALthough discussion goes back and forth :-)
15:49 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) And we digress a lot :-)
15:50 Wordsmith Jarvinen Writers!
15:50 Carl Metropolitan Andrea does run a writers group. Maybe she has some ideas.
15:50 Curei I didn't know you had a writer's group.
15:50 Carl Metropolitan Oh. Wait. I may be confused.
15:50 Carl Metropolitan I thought Andrea had a writers group.
15:50 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) It's in Andreas skybox pub
15:50 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) nope elfbiter does
15:50 Carl Metropolitan really should have just slept through this session :)
15:50 Wordsmith Jarvinen I think Andrea is giving the space to the group Elf runs.
15:50 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) i just host on my land
15:51 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) If someone else need land to hold a group or event please le me know
15:51 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) *let
15:51 Carl Metropolitan Maybe we need a poster or posters keeping track of the various informal vaguely oxbridge related things like that.
15:52 Carl Metropolitan Fencing team, writing group, pub, etc.
15:52 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) It'sa nice place
15:52 Camie Rembrandt Yes, it is. I go there almost every Thursday :)
15:52 Wordsmith Jarvinen And Beth Cooper-Pentewyn has recently appeared back in Caledon. I have a group in my groups that she started for a previous NanoWriMo.
15:54 Wordsmith Jarvinen So there's a potential of contacting her and using that existing chat group. (Caledon based)
15:54 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Hm. I have to check that out later.
15:54 Wordsmith Jarvinen Group name is: Write with Friends for NaNoWriMo
15:55 Camie Rembrandt Joined
15:56 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) I should purge some old groups..
15:56 Carl Metropolitan NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month, right?
15:56 Wordsmith Jarvinen If she's not actively moderating contact her and see if you can become a group officer. She's a former Oxbridge instructor.
15:58 Wordsmith Jarvinen Right. Not to be confused with NaBloWriMo (National Blog Writing Month)
15:58 Wordsmith Jarvinen [made that up on the fly]
15:58 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) :-)
15:58 Carl Metropolitan Writing a blog is much easier :)
15:58 Camie Rembrandt Actually, there is a NaBloPoMo :)
15:58 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) KaKiKiKu in Finnish :-)
15:59 Wordsmith Jarvinen Other questions?
15:59 Phrynne And there's one for poetry, too, though I don't recall the acronym
15:59 Camie Rembrandt Camp NaNoWriMo is a bit different from NaNoWriMo: http://campnanowrimo.org/about
15:59 Camie Rembrandt but it's managed by the same nonprofit
16:00 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) A announcement.
16:00 Wordsmith Jarvinen As Heinlein wrote: Writing is not something to be ashamed of, but it should be done in private and wash your hands afterward.
16:00 Carl Metropolitan With a blog you can get away with just silly pictures!
16:00 Carl Metropolitan I would like to offer the job of running a weekly trivia game to anyone who's interested. The host would get a copy of my set, my magic green text thing, and my ~3600 trivia question database.
16:00 Carl Metropolitan Oops
16:00 Carl Metropolitan wrong cut and paste
16:01 Carl Metropolitan http://jcarlhenders.tumblr.com/post/139271721589/be-informed-compare-them-on-the-issues-that
16:01 Wordsmith Jarvinen Carl's blog.
16:01 Wordsmith Jarvinen Andrea?
16:01 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Caledonian Nights will be having our St Patricks Day Party/Dance at the Pub in the village This tues night the 15th at 6. I have a NC if anyone wants one and it is up on the aether Calender.
16:01 Camie Rembrandt DiGiWriMo is for anything a person wants to create and publish online
16:02 Wordsmith Jarvinen Other questions or announcements?
16:02 Camie Rembrandt Andrea, what time is that party?
16:02 Wordsmith Jarvinen (to round out our slightly late starting hour)
16:03 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) starts at 6 Pm SLP
16:03 Curei I never got a cookie.
16:03 Camie Rembrandt ty
16:03 Aevalle Galicia-Constantine (aevalle.galicia) There was someone in the wee hours this morning, asking if Oxbridge would be available to participate in the upcoming VWBPE Mooc
16:03 Aevalle Galicia-Constantine (aevalle.galicia) I sent them Carl's direction
16:04 Carl Metropolitan I may have gotten a IM from them
16:04 Carl Metropolitan "Dear Caledon Oxbridge Gateway Community, We'd like to invite you to join us at the SLMOOC16"?
16:04 Aevalle Galicia-Constantine (aevalle.galicia) Name started with a P but I'd have to look it up
16:04 Aevalle Galicia-Constantine (aevalle.galicia) (was about 3 absinthes down when she popped up)
16:05 Aevalle Galicia-Constantine (aevalle.galicia) That's probably it but she said that it was connected to the conference
16:05 Wordsmith Jarvinen (I'm one absinthe over the line, sweet goddess; one absinthe over the line)
16:05 Carl Metropolitan They sent a notecard, but didnt' sign it.
16:05 Carl Metropolitan Pionia Destiny
16:05 Aevalle Galicia-Constantine (aevalle.galicia) That's here
16:05 Aevalle Galicia-Constantine (aevalle.galicia) *her
16:06 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) thinks absinthe is for posh people.
16:06 Aevalle Galicia-Constantine (aevalle.galicia) just likes the pretty green fairies floating around ;-p
16:06 Brace Coral lol
16:06 Carl Metropolitan I sent her an IM with my email.
16:07 Carl Metropolitan Dropping the notecard on staff right now
16:07 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thanks, Carl.
16:07 Carl Metropolitan That might be a "Development" or "Commons" or "Something Something" sort of thing.
16:07 Brace Coral ok I been away for awhile
16:07 Aevalle Galicia-Constantine (aevalle.galicia) Thankies
16:07 Brace Coral what iz a MOOC?
16:07 Aevalle Galicia-Constantine (aevalle.galicia) Massive Open Online Course
16:07 Carl Metropolitan Massively Online ..... Class?
16:08 Wordsmith Jarvinen Massive Open Online Class.
16:08 Carl Metropolitan A cow with hiccups?
16:08 Brace Coral LMAO
16:08 Brace Coral yall so goofy :)
16:08 Aevalle Galicia-Constantine (aevalle.galicia) Though the SL ones so far have been more Mini Open Online Course
16:08 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) someone you get oney from
16:08 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) *money
16:08 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome to National Acronym Use Month.
16:08 Aevalle Galicia-Constantine (aevalle.galicia) :D
16:08 Carl Metropolitan NAUM
16:08 Brace Coral BracePalms
16:09 Aevalle Galicia-Constantine (aevalle.galicia) AFGE!
16:09 Aevalle Galicia-Constantine (aevalle.galicia) Another Friggin' Growth Experience
16:09 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) NTTO
16:09 Wordsmith Jarvinen That's about it for our formal time.
16:09 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Lots of ETLAs
16:09 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) not touching that one
16:09 Brace Coral CMSC - Carl Metropolitan Stan Club
16:09 Wordsmith Jarvinen Best we adjourn before we totally cross over.
16:09 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Extended Three-Letter Acronyms.
16:09 Aevalle Galicia-Constantine (aevalle.galicia) laughs!
16:09 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) night mr Skysmith, sleep well
16:09 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) :-)
16:09 Carl Metropolitan Thank you all for coming tonight.
16:09 Camie Rembrandt I believe it was George Siemens who came up with the concept (MOOC)
16:09 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thanks you all for coming and participating.
16:10 Brace Coral Thank You!
16:10 Camie Rembrandt Connectivism and all that
16:10 Phrynne TCABW -- take care and be well
16:10 Brace Coral hehehe
16:10 Wordsmith Jarvinen May you stay on the peak of your Ballmer curves
16:10 Phrynne highpaws Bracce
16:10 Brace Coral rezzes the Google Machine
16:10 Carl Metropolitan "As a principled conservative, when elected, I will stand fast against all sorts of Connectivism!"
16:10 Brace Coral highpaws back!
16:11 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) BTFM
16:11 Curei And still no cookie. Sniff!
16:11 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) BedTime For Me.
16:11 Brace Coral I did send one :)
16:11 Wordsmith Jarvinen Wait, I gave you some, Curei.
16:11 Dove (dovelady88) Brace - please give Curei some cookies
16:11 Camie Rembrandt For me as well
16:11 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) BSY
16:11 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) BE Seeing You.
16:11 Dove (dovelady88) no absinthe, tho....
16:11 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) take care e;f
16:11 Camie Rembrandt See you next Thursday
16:11 Wordsmith Jarvinen https://xkcd.com/323/
16:11 Rowan Entilles (rowan900) elf
16:11 Aevalle Galicia-Constantine (aevalle.galicia) Where's the after-meeting show by the CMC (Carl Metropolitan Cheerleaders)?
16:11 Brace Coral Huzzah!
16:12 Camie Rembrandt Have a great Sunday, everyone!
16:12 Camie Rembrandt Bye
16:12 Aevalle Galicia-Constantine (aevalle.galicia) ttfn :)
16:12 Brace Coral :D
16:12 Brace Coral BYOB
16:12 Brace Coral no, wait
16:12 Carl Metropolitan We don't have an Oxbridge football team, but we could always use cheerleaders.
16:12 Dove (dovelady88) hahahaha
16:12 Brace Coral TGIF?
16:12 Brace Coral LMAO
16:12 Curei Bye, all.
16:12 Phrynne bye!
16:12 Brace Coral I look GREAT ina cheerleader outfit