Over the past few weeks, I’ve been working on a range of jokaydia related projects and am finally happy to announce a few exciting developments here!

The new and improved jokaydia Blog!

The jokaydia Blog has been around for awhile.. but I’ve finally had the time to get it setup properly with links to all of our latest projects, events and resources. The blog is designed to be a web-based portal on everything jokaydia, and will be used to promote, record and share all of our jokaydian exploits in Second Life.

There is a huge range of resources on the blog, including:

• The About page – which gives a basic overview of our who we are and what we do and how to get involved
• The Events Calendar – which will provide an overview of upcoming events happening on our space
• The Current Resident page – which provides a directory of our residential community members and their projects
• The Rental Properties page – which provides a list of the land parcels currently available for rent on the Islands of jokaydia
• The jokaydia Projects page – which provides a list our current projects in virtual worlds
• The jokaydia Resources page – which provides links to all of our virtual worlds resources including the SLeducation Wiki, and the Venues and Resources on the Islands of jokaydia list.
• The Virtual Worlds Services page which provides an overview of the types of services we can provide.

Community members are also welcome to use it as a space to promote their own work, so please contact me if you’ve got some content you’d like to contribute.

We will be publishing all the latest news and info about jokaydia on the jokaydia blog from now on… so update your feed readers now!!

The jokaydia Art Gallery Space

Many thanks to all who entered our First Annual Photo Competition. The images submitted have been displayed in our new Art Gallery on the Islands of jokaydia – you can visit the exhibition here.

We’ll be announcing the winners soon! Stay tuned.

The jokaydia Art Gallery also doubles as a multi-purpose venue for events, presentations and workshops. It includes holodeck tools to allow jokaydia Residents to rez appropriate tools and furniture for their events quickly and easily. If you’d like a demo, IM me inworld! If you’re interested in using the space, you can make a booking here.

The Virtual Classroom Project in Second Life

And finally, and probably most exciting of all – Konrad Glogowski aka Konrad March in Second Life has launched our latest community project on the Islands of jokaydia – the Virtual Classroom Project. You can read the official announcement post here.

We are supporting a small space within the Islands of jokaydia Estate which will allow Konrad and an Educator-In-Residence to design and create an ideal learning space for use as either a virtual classroom in Second Life or as a prototype for a real-life classroom. We will be documenting the project here.

This is set to be a really interesting project, where Konrad will help facilitate and support an Educator-in-residence on our Island. The amazing Leigh Blackall aka Leroy Goalpost has agreed to join us as our first Educator-In-Residence on the project. You can view his first post on the project here.

Special thanks to Konrad for his inspiring ideas and willingness to run this project for our community. You are a star, Konrad!