Mike Young's Comments

Hi Mike, thanks for joining us. Please let me know if I can be helpful to you.

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Welcome to AVW, Mike, and thanks for being friends.

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Hello~~Mike,thanks for being friends.

Thank You for the warm welcome

Hello Mike and a very warm welcome to you!

Since you ask: There is LibGaming Yahoo group listserv that has a library focus rather than a virtual world one, but is about gaming of many kinds. Also, American Libraries Association has a 2-year grant-funded initiative on games, learning, and literacy with an "experts panel" looking at best practices for gaming -- all games -- in libraries. (I'm on that panel.) Daedalus Project from Nick Yee is is-depth research on MMORGs. At http://www.21stcenturylearning.com is doing SL and WoW research. The June 20th issue of Science magazine will include an article about the Science guild on the Earthen Ring (US) server in WoW, and the science conference held in-game in May, attended by around 100 researchers and those interested in virtual worlds. That guild is open to others with a continuing interest in the subject.

Intellagirl has another listserv/digest SLR) for ed researchers at http://list.academ-x.com/listinfo.cgi/slrl-academ-x.com.
best,
Michael

Hi Mike...I will check out your site for sure, thank you for letting me know about it. I am pretty busy with building the AVW so I haven't had much time for exploring...but as soon as I come up for air..I will!

Hey Mike, you're with Global Kids! I know some of the folks on the Foundation side that are working with you. Good people, and I hear the work you're doing is terrific.

Hello Mike,
Thanks for the introduction. I am one of the two art directors at IMVU.com. We have started an informal Blog to talk about being an artist working in virtual worlds. At the moment it is small and is focused on purely tips and tricks. You can see it here:
http://palaisdupoulet.blogspot.com/
Thanks again,
~Don

Hi Mike,

Thanks for reaching out. At this point I'm still finding my way so, unfortunately, have little to offer in the way of alternatives.

Regards,
Graeme J

Greetings Mike Young. Your globalkids.org looks very interesting; my wife has taught gifted&talented kids (or "kids at risk") in the public schools for most of 30 years (though she looks too young to have been teaching this long, lol). I will pass along to her your link to that organization. Nice to meet you. Shalom, k.d.kragen

HI Mike,
Nice work with the kid focused programs. We have seen a real interest with the school age kids for programs like yours. Our pilot programs at Triggerfinger Software have shown kids to be the ideal age group to use the latest and greatest technology to engage their curiosity and keep their attention.
I would love to hear more about your experiences from your programs.

Minor correction I have to pass along: what I listed as a Yahoo group is, in fact, a Google group. My apologies!

We are letting the Blog remain free form for now. Typically we will cover experiences we have had designing for low poly virtual product catalogs, but posters have requested more info on specific tricks they can use in their own products. We will see where that takes us. Thanks for having a look. ~Don

Hi Mike. No, I am very new to the virt worlds...world. I really like your kid friendly programs, scanned the webpage briefly. I may be in touch with you about some stuff we are working on.

Hi Mike - thanks for the welcome! I'm very new to online social networking. We're doing a pilot of a humanities SNW on Ning, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (mastudies.ning.com). I'll visit your site and perhaps be in touch as we move along!

Hi Mike
Thanx for note

I am quite new to "virtual Worlds" - I mostly mingle in http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/PanoToolsNG/ and related ...

Cheers
John

Hi Mike. Thanks for your comment. No not aware of any other forums.

Hi Mike, Thanks for adding me.