I am an artist, instructor, and superhero as an arts advocate promoting the importance of creative education and community participation in the arts that are active and inclusive. Owner / Artist of hue are you? in Second Life and my superpower is expression through color.
We had our midterm for my second term of the UW Virtual Worlds program. We toured the University of Washington BioDome sim to review each classmates work. Everyone had great plans for their plot and it was great to see how we all have different projects in mind. I built my educational center with an office, classroom, work area, gallery, and, of course, dancefloor. My theme was inspired by Japanese design. I used the lantern as a symbol of enlightenment, cherry trees mean education, poppies imagination, pearls for wisdom, and woven patterns to connect the tech with the loom. To add splashes of color, I made and posted my create crayons flags about the grounds. I really enjoyed my classmates’ work as well. Everyone is very talented and clever.
I received my parcel of land on the UW Virtual BioDome on Thursday! I planted some poppies and cherry trees to get started and to inspire growth. It will be great fun to see what my classmates build on our sim!
For our final project for the term, we created an event full of panelists in Medicine, Education, and Business called “Caelatoris”. I was the Coordinator for the Business Session. My awesome team was Hasmik Ziplon, CelesteAngelique Zapatero, Joseph Trachtenberg, Sean Ricantaur, Michaal Kaligawa, Yari Huckleberry, Harris Adamski, and Joe Nirvana. I also had the pleasure of working closely with the other session coordinators, Jordanna Hamaski and Laurel Zenovka.
Because two of our panelists didn’t make it into Second Life for our questions, Celeste interviewed Sandy Kearney, an Independent Business Researcher, and our instructor Randy Hinrichs.Our team developed awesome questions for our panelist to answer. Sandy Kearney gave us insight and encouragement of our goals in learning about virtual worlds and our place in them. Until recently Sandy could be found working with IBM as a Global Director in the areas of 3D internet (3Di) and Virtual Business. She has over 25 years experience as a Business Analyst working with complex organizations and operations, including military and civilian strategy, aviation, futures planning, and logistics.
My two guests were Bevan Whitfield, a Virtual Worlds Business and Education Specialist, and Coughran Mayo, Senior Vice President of Planning and Development for Preferred Family Healthcare, Inc. who advocates using Second Life and Open Grid.
Some of you know that I am earning a certificate in Virtual Worlds through the University of Washington. It is a three-term program that will explore all aspects of virtual worlds through in world lectures, guest speakers, like Logan Linden (see picture), field trips in Second Life and other VW, lots of reading, building an educational wiki, and personal project. I am one of 25 students from all over and it has been great to discover how they want to use virtual worlds in the future.
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