Second Life Wave Users Meet-Up

by azwaldo on Dec.13, 2009, under design, opensource, scripting

Who: Second Life™ developers who are also Google Wave users
What: Developers Discussion
Where: Free University of Berlin*
When: 11AM SLT Saturday, Dec 19th
Why: To discuss the integration of SL applications and XMPP

* SLurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/New%20Berlin/95/31/32

Join programmers and content creators to discuss how wave technology (XMPP) might be integrated with SL applications.

What would this look like?
How could it improve the SL experience?

Friendly Fire, the GLAMest Band in the Land, will perform live right after the discussion. There will be DJs , information, and a Silent Auction for Google Wave Invites.

Event Space at newBERLIN

The main event—A Developers Discussion “Integration of Wave with SL”—will be at 11AM SLT. There will also be a demonstration of an interactive training bot at 10AM SLT. (NOT wave-enabled, but an example of an application that might benefit from XMPP integration.)

The purpose of this event is to attract SL Rezidents to an open discussion about integrating XMPP with SL applications. Some discussion is taking place at this wave (only works if you have a Google Wave account): https://wave.google.com/wave/#restored:wave:googlewave.com!w%252Be8cce8kiD

A wave has been created to plan the event, and now has the complete schedule of events. Here is the wave-URL : https://wave.google.com/wave/#restored:wave:googlewave.com!w%252BAltepd9UA

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2 Comments for this entry

Wayne
December 13th, 2009 on 5:50 am
How cool to see someone else thinking of using Google Wave for education, and to see that you want to incorporate GW into Second Life. These two technologies plus Blackboard are enough for any eduator to teach amazing courses. In fact, at a Teaching and Learning Conference in April 2010, I will show how to use Google Wave to edit and grade papers, and how to use the software alongside SL (SL has voice chat) to make student individual conferences very high tech and very comprehensive. Just think, students can now submit, through GW, papers that include images, sound files, and movies inside the texts of their work (just like professional bloggers do everyday) and a teacher can easily edit these inclusions along with the actual text, and then return all these edits to the student so they can playback every change. And this can happen while the student and instructor are in SL, with voice chat, together. Nobody leaves their living room. Another great thing: There’s a written record of everything that happens; so a student can save the exchange (unless the instructor exclusively uses a mic, a student would have to record the audio, which is no big thing). Me, I type the important things out, almost like a Blackboard, when I teach in SL, and that seems to work best.

Anyway, the GW apps will be awesome, but the basic tools are already there for educators to incorporate GW into many types of classes, especially language arts.

I hope to attend your next SL event. Thanks for this post.
SL: Edub Whybrow

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- azwaldo
  December 22nd, 2009 on 3:51 am
  Glad you stopped by, Wayne.
  
  I plan to continue poking at the Google Wave client application and the XMPPlatform which lies beneath its hood; however, I am not as curious about the possible integration of Wave with Second Life™…at least not in the near term.
  
  I have a new perspective; the SL platform has plenty of room to develop interactive objects that deliver eXtensible Messaging and Presence-data.
  
  I try to explain what I have learned in my newest post: http://bit.ly/6G5ZHQ and would be grateful to see your feedback there, too.
  
  Maybe we can meet in world sometime, Edub.
  (SL: Azwaldo Villota)
  
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