New Land Available on jokaydia!

For anyone who hasn’t heard via our inworld group or Facebook, this week I have released a new batch of rental properties available on the Islands of jokaydia.

I’d also like to welcome our new jokaydia residents, who have also recently secured plots - Pandora Kurrajong, Joie Despres and HeyJude Jenns! It’s great to have have all of them with us!

I’ve listed those that are remaining and their Slurls below for anyone interested in exploring them further. Note - spaces are going fast so check the notes in ‘About Land’ for up-to-date details.

Available Rental Properties as @ 29 February 2008:

Please note: Each of these plots is sized at 1024m and provides access to 234 prims. However, some can be joined to provide 2048m spaces which provide 468 prims. Email me for further details or IM jokay Wollongong in Second Life.

And yes - jokaydia can haz kitteh!….LOL

ISTE Speaker Series Session Coming Up!

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As promised, here’s the details of the event I’m doing for ISTE in Second Life next week. Hopefully lots of our jokaydia Community Members will be able to attend! Check your local time here.

Education on the Islands of jokaydia in Second Life with jokay Wollongong

Tuesday, January 29, 6 PM SLT, ISTE Speaker Series Session

Jo Kay aka jokay Wollongong will share information about the various projects she is involved with in Second Life, including the Islands of jokaydia, where she is supporting a growing community of educators and artists in Second Life who are exploring various strategies for the use of virtual worlds in their practice. She will also talk about the incredibly comprehensive SLeducation Wiki which documents educational uses of Second Life and is recognized as one of the most valuable resources available for educators exploring virtual worlds.

The event will commence at 6pm SLT on 1/29 at the ISTE Beach/Campfire Ring area where Jo Kay will facilitate a brief introduction and a question and answer session. This will be followed by a field trip to the Islands of jokaydia where participants will have the opportunity to explore the Islands and also meet some of the jokaydia Community members who are working there.

For more information about ISTE events in Second Life visit their wiki.

Hooray.. Im Home!

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There are a couple of FLNW08 events left - including Linux conference events happening on jokaydia which include Alex Hayes and Bee Dieu, who will I’m sure be fabulous.

Next up for me, is a presentation for the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) in Second Life. Many thanks to the fabulous Kevin Jarrett aka KJ Hax for the invite to speak to such a wonderful group inworld! At this stage I’m planning a short presentation and then a field trip to jokaydia. I’ll post the event description when the jetlag haze lifts and I’ve written it up! My session is scheduled for 6pm SLT (PST) on 29th January 08.

I’ve also just started work on Koala Island - a project for Swinburne University in Victoria, Aus. So far things are shaping up well, with the terraform complete. Planning for the build, which will include some features from Swinburne’s real-life campus is now well underway…. but I’ll write more about that project soon.

And MOST exciting of all - we are opening up new rental spaces on jokaydia II this week - and beginning to welcome some new tenants to our Islands. I am madly busy working on setting up land and groups, landscaping and resources inworld… and also undertaking to finally get our jokaydia.com website up and running properly. I’ll post updates about all of that here soon too.. but if you’re interested in renting land on the Islands of jokaydia feel free to drop me an email. Spaces are going fast!

So there ya go.. a post full of updates and a list of things to blog about! I’m looking forward to 2008 which is already shaping up to be an exciting year, full of new challenges and great projects to work on. It’s a bit late for new year’s resolutions now.. but I think one of the important ones for me will be to blog more… so here’s to more ramblings and rants from me shortly!