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Webheads and EduNation

As of late 2006, Webheads have been exploring Second Life. I'm recording here some tips and tricks as profered by the organizers of this venture, Gavin Dudeney, Nicky Hockly, and Graham Stanley, and by many other Webhead contributors.

In mid 2007 Gavin writes: "We’ve now completed our move from EduNation to EduNation II (beside the original island) and are back ready for teaching and training in a new, bigger and lighter area with plenty of water and some new teaching tools. As always, if you’re looking for temporary spaces for classes or training seminars, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. The original EduNation island is being rezoned over the next few days and will feature new economical rental plots for educators, with double prim allowances. You can find EduNation II here: http://tinyurl.com/34l8mw . In Oct 2007 the address was given as http://slurl.com/secondlife/Edunation%20III/74/32/21/

Getting to EduNation

• Navigation hints are available from Linden at http://secondlife.com/knowledgebase/category.php?id=22
• Dennis made a SLurl that will teleport you to EduNation: http://tinyurl.com/ylc3l6. He also says that Elizabeth once gave the coordinates for the hut as: 104,239,313
• Another way to find the Webheads beach hut is to use the Second Life 'Search' facility and look for 'Edunation'. Once in Second Life, to find the Webheads Hut on EduNation, click the Search button at the bottom of the screen. Searching for EduNation will give you two results (highight a result and click Teleport to go to either, and you can also simply search for Webheads to get the second result.):
  1. EduNation, which gives a direct link to the intro to the island, and the guided tour, which is worth taking for finding out a bit more about the island. It's a small vehicle - if you right-click on it and choose 'Sit', you'll be given an intro spiel and then whisked off around the island for a flying tour with commentary. If you're feeling lazy when you arrive, there are a couple of hammocks set out there for a quick rest. You'll also find general information about EduNation in the form of notecards, and a wearable map which will indicate your position on the island as you walk around it. If you want to use the Map and teleport, it's EduNation (69, 48, 22)
  2. Webheads @ EduNation, which will take you to just outside the Webheads Hut, maintained by Graham Stanley. Walk up the steps and click on the door to enter. As Graham said, he's already started decorating and you'll find a general stand with information about Webheads, a link to an audio interview with Vance and an in-world RSS feed taken directly from this blog, as well as a useful visitor counter so we can see how many WebHeads are also 'virtual'. Again, on the Map it's EduNation (97, 216, 22)
• Another way is to use this direct link from your web browser (launches the SL client, which you need to have installed on your computer beforehand): http://slurl.com/secondlife/Edunation/97/225/23/?title=Webheads%20in%20Action
• For information on the Consultants-E island 'Edunation' - http://www.theconsultants-e.com/edunation/edunation.asp.

Finding Webheads

• Inside Second Life, right click on your avatar and pull down your groups option and add yourself to the Webheads group.
• After that, open up the Webheads group list
  • You can see from this who is in-world, and so send them a message, even if they aren't on your friends list.
  • It also has a feature that allows anyone to send everyone in the group an IM, with landmarks, which is a very useful feature if there's a meeting and people are moving to different locations - it only works if people are in the group, however, so I highly recommend that all Second Life Webheads join up

And here are some artifacts of Webheads experiences in 2nd Life

• Baldric Commons's blog http://baldricstrousers.edublogs.org/ and photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/baldric_commons
• Bee has recorded her debut and first steps in SL on her blog :-) http://beewebhead.net/archives/276
• Candy Pauchnick (Pafiki Paravane in SL) has posted photos on her web site. The newest page from today's activity (Nov 26, 2006) is at this URL: http://henry.sandi.net/staff/cpauchni/Webhd2.html Last week's activities are at this link: http://henry.sandi.net/staff/cpauchni/Webhd2LF.html Thanks, everyone, for making the SL learning experience so enjoyable.
• Graham Stanley has posted photos from the Nov 26 meeting here: http://www.webheadsinaction.org
• Johan blogged about a mid-November presentation here http://elgg.net/jjongstra/weblog/139871.html
• Susanne Nyrop tracks her journey through Second Life at http://worldofwebheads.blogspot.com/
• Taran Rampersad's blog entry on his meeting with Dudeney Ge in SL: http://www.knowprose.com/node/16357
• Vance's report on a Dec 29 class put on by Fire Centaur: http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/chat2006/chat2006.htm#061228

Copyright 2007 by Vance Stevens
under Creative Commons License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/

August 13, 2007

Mirrors: This page is available at:

• http://www.vancestevens.com/secondlife_edunation.htm
• http://www.geocities.com/vance_stevens/secondlife_edunation.htm
• http://www.prof2000.pt/users/vstevens/secondlife_edunation.htm