I love a good widget or web 2.0 tool, and this one is two cute. Check out my Geek Chart – and yes I know I need to work on my Twitter addiction! hehe

Jokay’s Geek Chart

Visit the jokaydia Blog for more info. Hope to see you there!

As part of our Leap Year Party this evening, I will be launching the First Annual jokaydia Photo Competition! 

Everyone is invited to take part in our first community art project/competition – which is all about taking interesting, artistic, crazy and/or creative shots to be displayed in our new Gallery space on jokaydia, which will launch at the end of March.

There’s only one catch – we’ve picked the location! Your images MUST be taken within the jokaydia Estate.

How to Enter

1. Create a really interesting image using the Second Life camera tools.
2. Upload your photograph to Flickr and tag it with ‘jokaydiaphotocomp08‘. You also need to add your image to the jokaydia Photo Pool. You’ll find instructions on how to join the group and add your image here.
3. Wait with baited breath for the winners announcements in late March!
4. Closing date for photo submissions is 12pm 25 March 2008 (SL Time). 

The Categories:

There will be 3 prize categories:

1. Best Image – a panel of judges will select a winning image.
2. Most Models – The image which includes the highest number of avatars
3. Community Award – jokaydian Community Members will vote to award a prize.

The Prizes

Each winner will receive $10,000L and their work will be prominently displayed in the jokaydia Gallery as part of our launch exhibition.

Conditions, Details and Fine Print 

1. All images include some part of the Islands of jokaydia in Second Life as the location.
2. Only images uploaded to Flickr, tagged correctly and added to the jokaydia Photo pool can be considered.
3. The judges decision is final.
4. By submitting your image to the competition, you are acknowledging that you give permission for you artwork to be displayed on the jokaydia Estate (in Second Life) and on jokay.com.au and jokaydia.com.

For further information, please contact jokay Wollongong inworld or email joannamkay@gmail.com.

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!

Join us for a celebration on the Islands of jokaydia… because a leap year is as good a time as any for a party!

This is also an opportunity to bring together all our new residents… so come along, and bring a friend for some fun and dancing.

Commencing at 1:00am SL Time on 29 February (Check your local time here: http://tinyurl.com/2nmz6x).

Join us @ http://slurl.com/secondlife/jokaydia%20II/60/70/26.

For further info IM your hosts jokay Wollongong or Pandora Kurrajong… seeya there!

Its been a busy couple of weeks, with all sorts of new developments that I should be blogging about!

For starters.. about a week or so ago, I had the absolute pleasure of appearing on Tonight Live with Paisley Beebe in Second Life. The show is produced by a very creative and international group of people in Second Life and broadcast live by SLCN.

You can watch the recording of the event here.

The process of appearing on the show was fun – the studio the team works from is well designed, and the crowd they attract is lively and just a bit cheeky! I am always a bit nervous when I do these types of interviews, but I think it went ok.

From behind the camera! Image by teachandlearn

Paisley and jokay on Saturday Night Live. Image by teachandlearn

The Saturday Night Live Crowd. Image by teachandlearn

Special thanks to Konrad who came along and documented the event for me – including the great images I’ve included here.

We’ve also been busy welcoming new residents on the Islands of jokaydia. It’s great to have Pandora Kurrajong, HeyJude Jenns and staff and students from St. Joseph’s College, Joie Despres, Daneel Ariantho, Rusty Kembla and staff and students from Hobart College, Niello Catteneo, and Leanteamer Zenovka and staff and students from Kangan Batman TAFE with us!!

Daneel receiving access to his new land on jokaydia!

For those still interested in renting land, there are still a number of plots left for rent:

• jokaydia Rental Property 1: http://slurl.com/secondlife/jokaydia%20II/170/91/25
• jokaydia Rental Property 2: http://slurl.com/secondlife/jokaydia%20II/203/92/24
• jokaydia Rental Property 8: http://slurl.com/secondlife/jokaydia%20II/137/68/25
• jokaydia Rental Property 9: http://slurl.com/secondlife/jokaydia%20II/137/109/27
• jokaydia Rental Property 10: http://slurl.com/secondlife/jokaydia%20II/93/66/26

If you’d like further info or a tour, please IM me inworld or drop me an email!

The other exciting thing I’ve been working on is an Island design and build for the University of Swinburne, Australia. We are establishing Koala Island with a campus feel. It is branded to match the University’s other online spaces, and will be used to host a range of projects inworld during the coming year.

I’ll post further about this project shortly but for now, here’s a few screenshots.

Koala Island by Moonlight!

Building the Resource Centre which will house a range of useful resources.

Study Writer standing outside his new office!

We selected ‘The Atrium’ at Lilydale campus as the key real-life structure we would replicate inworld.

The Atrium Under Construction!

Below is an image of the real-life building and the SL version for comparison.

The Virtual Atrium on Koala Island

The Real-Life Atrium at Lilydale Campus

Links for further information:

• Torchlight Procession | Edinburgh’s Hogmanay Festival
• Background info about the Torchlight Procession
• My images on Flickr
• Music by Back of the Moon

Join us for some dancing and socialising on the Island of jokaydia as we celebrate the festive season AND delivery of our new sim!

Where: http://slurl.com/secondlife/jokaydia/113/150/23

Time:

• Saturday 22 December @ 6pm (Australian Time)
• Friday 21 December @ 11pm (Second Life Time)
• Check your local time here – http://tinyurl.com/325upc

For more info IM jokay Wollongong in Second Life or email me!

I’ve made this Animoto video to record an impression of the eLearning 07 event – which we held over a month ago now! It’s posted on the NSW LearnScope blog… but I thought I’d post it here too.

I couldn’t resist this cool tool, and hope it brings back some good memories for those who attended. For me the memories of techical dramas, stress and hard work are fading, and I’m focussing on the conversations, new learning, connections and innovations that came out of the event. Thanks to everyone how attended, contributed, commented, criticized, praised and recorded the event!

The posters will be displayed in Second Life until 5pm on the 6 December 2007, so drop inworld and check out yours and other team members posters. To teleport to jokaydia click here.

On Friday I will start pulling it all down… so we can prepare for our next adventure adventure…. hosting the International Edublog Awards 2007 in Second Life!

We had some great news today – both the Island of jokaydia AND our Second Life in Education Wiki (Yay, Sean!!) have been nominated in the Edublog Awards 2007 – in the Best educational use of a virtual world 2007 category.

Visit the Edublog Awards 2007 site and get voting!!

The Island of jokaydia

Second Life in Education Wiki

Congratulations to all of the nominees in each and every category – but a special hoooooray to….

• Leonard’s Mobile Learning Blog, Stephen’s OLDaily and Sue’s Mobile Learning in TAFE Blog in the Best Individual Blog Cateogry
• Sue is also nominated in the Best New Edublog – and Best Educational Tech Support categories. Wow Sue… go girl!!
• Well done Konrad in the Most influential blog post 2007 Category – for his fab post How to Grow a Blog. Outstanding!
• Konrad’s blog of proximal development is also nominated in the Best teacher blog 2007 category along with Graham Wegner’s great read Teaching Generation Z
• Congrats to HeyJude and Kathryn Greenhill who are both nominated in the Best library / librarian blog 2007 category. I have no idea who to choose between these two… both are too fabulous! Help!

More info coming soon about the gala SL Edublog Awards Ceremony! Start planning your virtual outfit!

A two day old blog makes it to the Featured Blogs page!

Thanks to James and the team at Edublogs!

Keep following us over at http://eshowntell2007.edublogs.org to get updates on conference happenings over the next few days… and did you hear there is a competition!