Therese Weel

A very happy coincidence that this discussion is taking place while we are doing this conference.  Thanks for telling us about it Sylvia.

I signed up for it the process was quick.  There is a reminder feature and your account is defaulted to receive a weekly update from them.

I invite those who will be attending  to come back here to share their thoughts and what they discovered.

T

Where we are now with our Virtual worlds and awesome graphics is a far cry from the days of Pong on a vic20  (Yea I had one)   Still the latest technology is not available to everyone and even for those who have the hardware, the time required  and ease of use are other barriers that stop us from participating.

On Sunday, I took a field trip to Old Fairhaven just south of Bellingham  . We were hanging around the Village bookstore and the few places that weren't closed for easter.

The toy stores were closed but I stopped to admire the window displays- felt like I had gone back in time .  What struck me was "delightfulness" of the toys in the store,  Brightly colored children's garden tools.  A carved wooden toy house right out of lord of the rings and lots of boxes with models, board games and science experiments.

Got me to thinking about how we can capture that wonderful sense of delight and discovery that seems to be missing online.   Our attention spans online are very short and I find that I am always in a hurry.

I guess one way is to keep them simple and to encourage the user to slow down and think about what is being presented.

Therese

This is awesome George!

I have spent some time now looking at your main site and the mindmap.  Found all sorts of interesing places and was able to put them into context easily because of the mindmap.

For those of you who haven`t tried it yet. Mindmanager is a good tool for making sense of complexity and is well worth a download.  http://www.mindjet.com/us/

By viewing the mind map within MindManger you can navigate around the brain of George and the other group members.  This is a truely excellent resource for wrapping your head around these topics.

Again, here is the  link to the google group -  http://groups.google.com/group/gaming-and-learning-in-sl

I`m attaching the mindmap to this post - so you can download it directly

George, thanks so much for coming by and sharing this.

Therese

Meet with Ron Edwards, CEO of Ambient Performance. Ron is our guest tomorrow at an event on Nick Noakes` Borocay Island in Second Life. We recommend that anyone wishing to attend, create their Second Life avatar in good time.

Here is the SLURL  http://slurl.com/secondlife/Boracay/185/113/30

Here is the link to the skypecast

https://skypecasts.skype.com/skypecasts/skypecast/detailed.html?id_talk=670372&hash=5b8fe71ec590ef1ea239

To attend Email your  AVATAR NAME and SKYPE ID  To   Tiaka Kobeshimi   (RL: Tia Carr Williams)   

Tia@tycoonsystem.com





We thank both our our guest Ron Edwards and the fabulous Nick Noakes for proving the Boracay  Big Tree discussion area  for our conversation.


See you there

Tree Sewell  (RL: Therese Weel )  
Therese@datadesigns.ca
Skype DataDesignsCanada


This session is offered as part of the Serious Games and Virtual Worlds seminar.

Hi Corinne, 

Sent an invite.  Unfortunately I have to send out a invitation before someone can use MindMeister. I was thinking of sending out invitations to everyone, but I just looked and there are over 300 people on the list  - so I am on my best behavior now.

Anyone who is interested can email me at  Therese@datadesign.ca and I will fix you up.