WHY SCHLEP TO SUMMER SCHOOL -- when you can study online in your own world too?
New streaming media course to launch in Second Life www.secondlife.com. You may have seen the recent cover story article in BUSINESS WEEK about the Virtual World "Second Life" Cached.
BUT what's really new in this world is the chance to take a real-life class inside the world! My colleague Jeannie Novak, at Indiespace.com just sent me an email that promos,"the first of a series of seminars on Internet delivery of real-time audio and video. Learn how to deliver music and video in real-time on the web and other locations on the Internet".
The class is called : STREAMING AUDIO AND VIDEO:
Instructor: Pete Markiewicz
"HOW TO DELIVER SOUND AND MOVIES IN SECOND LIFE AND THE GENERAL INTERNET (PART 1)" Novak reports that, "you can attend the event virtually - from your home computer! In fact, the entire series of seminars will be provided solely through the Internet. Indiespace is developing a new method of teaching using the resources of the Second Life (SL) virtual world."
TO REGISTER AND GET MORE DETAILS ON THIS CLASS IN SECOND LIFE:
How to attend:
1. Go to http://secondlife.com/community/downloads.php download the (free) Macintosh or Windows program "Second Life"
2. Start Second Life on your computer
3. Press the "New Account" button (it's free)
3. Register in Second Life (free)
4. Come to the class at 3pm PDT June 14
Event description:
http://secondlife.com/events/event.php?id=227940&date=1150268400
MORE INFO ON THE INSTRUCTOR: About Pete Markiewicz:
After a career in science, in 1994 Pete Markiewicz co-founded Indiespace along with Jeannie Novak. Indiespace is a consultancy providing services related to the use of new technology (Internet, games, virtual worlds) in entertainment. He has provided technical and marketing support for the company ever since. Pete is co-author (with Novak) of the nationally distributed books Creating Internet Entertainment, Web Developer.com Guide to Producing Live Webcasts, and Internet World Guide to Maintaining & Updating Dynamic Web Sites (Wiley). He teaches Interactive Media Design at the Art Institute of California, Los Angeles, and online in the web and in Second Life (http://www.secondlife.com).
Blogger note: you do have to be a member of Second Life-- but registration and membership is free. The promo from Indiespace.com does not say how to dress your Avatar for the class, but my guess is that you can bet it's going to be casual style. The course is a brilliant idea and gives us some vision of how the whole area of Virtual Worlds can be vital in the next-gen of education or what I have long called edu-tainment. ENJOY!
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