blah blah blah, crane this, power plant that  =p i asked subQuark to create an example of how my nifty tower crane could be used as part of a science field trip dealio and here it is. one funny thing to note is that i thought the counterweights (what his post is about) looked fine [...]

i’ve been putting off building a nuclear power plant for a year and i did not know why until this week up to now, the builds i’ve done have been able to illustrate science concepts as they are (ie, water from a reservoir running through pipes to turn turbines in a hydro-electric dam is easy to [...]

today was one of those days i just couldn’t focus on anything too seriously so i played around with a suburb i mentioned a few weeks ago i need a neighbourhood to showcase some home science/environmental topics but don’t want all the houses to be furnished or even to have any interior space. the topics [...]

as much as i blab about OpenSim and considering it’s been almost two years that i’ve been out of Second Life, you’d think that my SL-centric perspective would have been reshaped by now today i had to admit that either i have a seating fetish or that i still think in terms of 55 avatars per sim and that [...]

i’ve been asked a few times how i come up with “activities” for the science field trip locations i’m building for Enclave Harbour. mostly it’s based on topics found in middle school Earth and Physical Science which are the grades i taught in the past. in Texas, 50% of ninth graders drop out of school which [...]

A topic I have discussed in the past is in the use of virtual worlds for creating multimedia assets for eLearning and I have some old tutorials for doing this with Second Life. Creating video from Second Life or OpenSim is fairly easy to do and fairly inexpensive. However, virtual worlds are also an easy [...]

I have been following a discussion in LinkedIn’s Virtual World group that has taken a shift into an area of interest to me. It will come to no surprise to the reader’s of Ener Hax’s iliveisl blog to learn that this shift was loudly accented by our own Ener. Linda Rogers (Bread and Roses | [...]

someone on twitter was having a challenge with terraforming on the stick version of OpenSim and i know i have messed with terraforming and it had worked. i had only tried it on the single sim version and thought i should see what the dealio was on both the one and four sim versions. the [...]

phew, yesterday’s blog post caused lots of discussion! pseudonyms used to be reserved for authors, actors, and musicians but the interwebz has allowed this to be something you and i can explore. in fact, a quick look at Barnes & Noble’s book list and their are many books on virtual identities. while pseudonyms have been used by [...]

EnclaveHarbour.com silicone bracelet samples came in and they seem pretty nifty – i may try a larger and thicker font though . . . (website i used) for 300 they come out to 30 cents each and they are “eco-bands” (although i did not select eco? must be free range and organic silicone or something [...]

following in the same theme that led to the carbon classroom, Enclave Harbour now boasts a double helix inspired building =) to discuss some science issues, like orographic lifting which affects weather due to mountains, Enclave Harbour needs a skyline to demonstrate how cities also create their own weather i never know how much detail to [...]

i have been messing with the Enclave Harbour space station again. adding sorely needed details all before actually building any activities in it what kind of activities? i am not sure yet but something to show the carbon cycle (i dunno, maybe a garden > a cafeteria > waste products > compost > fertilizer?), the water cycle (since [...]

What is Enclave Harbour and why being counted in OpenSim stats don’t matter? Counting the regions that come and go in OpenSim is a bit like counting sites using Flash was ten years ago. Flash was new and allowed for new things to be accomplished in the World Wide Web. Today, Flash has enjoyed a [...]