March 2012 Blog Posts (20)

First Three Surfboards of Virtual Highway, SurfWatch, Corona Girl and Surfer Girl.  Stay Tuned...…

Warm Greetings,

a new TedTalk of special interest for Virtual World, I know many of you will find interesting.

Enjoy ~ Bain

"Rhonda Lowry explains identity in the digital age through her own avatar, Grace McDunnough, who is a well-known musical performer in Second Life"

http://ning.it/H2G1cV

MANIERA proudly presents the Ones to Watch for 2012. They are unique, fierce and have a wicked sense of style.

-3.5 million YouTube views, 130K twitter followers

#1 artist on Amazon and Frostwire

The AMAZING Kellee Maize

-The STYLE SYNDICATE- Models that are carving a name for themselves with their own unique style.

-Creating her own rules- Nino Heartsdale

-The New Faces of Moolto!

-and MANIERA'S Winter Couture Winners!!…

Kayaker Magic just IM and said he finished his amazing Giant Manta Rays!! They are here at Breakers Point for you to come and take a ride! This manta will swim in the water…

Tiffany Magic takes a test run in our new Kayaks!!

Kayaker Magic is Virtual Highways latest creative genius.  With him he brings years of Real Life coding experience as well as opensim experience so he has been…

Greetings everyone,

Apologies for the late announcement: tomorrow's Inworld Discussion is back on.



Ron Dyer will discuss his dissertation work: "Playing games with cognitive load. Building the case through measurement for serious games adoption in corporate training."



>>You can also watch and listen on ARVEL Channel at http://arvelsig.ning.com/page/livestream



>>Bookmark event:…

Join us in the free Adobe Connect meeting: at http://arvelsig.ning.com/events/nmc-horizon-connect-webinar

on going now. 8:30am to 9:30am PST

event: http://arvelsig.ning.com/events/nmc-horizon-connect-webinar

Cheers,

ARVEL SIG Team

Friday March 23, 2012 at 2 PM PST...Tone Uriza will be opening his Boondocks Lounge in Virtual Highway!!  Tone takes the stage at The Boondocks Lounge it is an exact replica of his real life club where…

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Greetings Everyone,

I hope that you had a wonderful time at the VWBPE 2012. What a program it was!

ARVEL Inworld Discussion

ARVEL is now back on its regular programming with an Inworld Discussion "Studying the (Virtual) World of Work"…

MeiNem Art Gallery, Maa Gia's Realm, Ilha Magica (OS Grid)



MeiNem presents from Mar 17 to Apr 14: Deep Senses by Praline B.



Opening March 17 2pm SLT and joining us again is JoRed Macbeth with Tango & Vida at 2:30pm SLT…

"Wicked Problems and MUVEs"

vimeo link to video presentation: http://vimeo.com/27602406

In designing instructional virtual worlds, there are 3 levels of instruction that are geared to address the “Wicked Problems” in Multi-User Virtual Environments : those unpredictable consequences of human interactions that *are* complex systems!

Learners today need to learn skills they can utilize in ever changing contexts that they…

No ARVEL SIG Inworld Discussion this week.

ARVEL is sponsoring the VWBPE. Bookmark your calendar for Apr 15, 16, and 17.

Details: http://arvelsig.ning.com/events/vwbpe-2012-1



Earlier today, 3/13/0212 Chris Haskell defended his dissertation "Attraction in Quest-Based Learning". Some of us listening on CAVE Island (…

Big Daddy Tone Uriza took a cruise recently on the Virtual Highway, and hasn't been the same since. You see, he couldn't stop thinking about that low ride down the highway with blues reverberating off the sides…

Greetings everyone!

This week's ARVEL Inworld Discussion is part of the SITE special virtual events (Info: http://arvelsig.ning.com/events/site-2012-virtual-presentations; events: http://sitecitylimits.wordpress.com/. ARVEL recorded the SITE PreConference SL party: …

Jez came to see VirtualHighway with her partner Tone Uriza and she has taken us all by storm with her positive attitude and exceptional P.R. skills.  We asked Jez to join us here at VirtualHighway as our Grid Coorespondant.

Jez and I will be bringing you all the latest happenings on the VirtualHighway…

Our book, Machinima: The Art and Practice of Virtual Filmmaking, was released March 2012.  My co-author Lowe Runo and I have invested much time into…