Slides that were used in the VirtualESC meeting on 6/6/11

1. VirtualESC –Affinity Group -- Treasure Hunt winners; some basic features in and uses of Second Life -- June 6, 2011 – 2:30 – 3:30

2. Agenda Treasure Hunt winners -- $1,000 Lindens Mechanics Sitting / World Map / camera adjustments Talking: via headset / via text Saving meetings – text / machinima Basic applications & examples Meetings via images Meetings via website Designing . . . what is in your future? from the elegant (28 Union) to importing images (MAT Science Center)

3. Treasure Hunt Winners - $1,000 Lindens each Sunshine Lionheart – most interesting location Michael301 Mancini – best hairdo LysaBurnstein – best outfit

4. Basics To adjust view & voice-zooming: hold Alt on your keyboard > bring mouse over object to view/hear > click > zoom in & out with mouse wheel To see all ESC locations: click World (at screen top) > World Map > click-and-drag around the map > double-click to be teleported to a location on the map

5. ADJUSTING SPEECH: click Me (top of screen) > Preferences > Sound & media > open Input/Output > test headset Toggle on & off Speech at screen bottom; it is green when active; turn off when not using to avoid feedback Text chat at screen bottom; similar to Elluminate

6. Saving meeting interactions Text chat can be saved to computer Save action too (machinima): www.fraps.com But it takes a good bit of space; image capturing Save sound: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Having “context” & community at a distance is a huge advantage and, yes, it can be VERY synchronous, but other options too

7. Testing the different ways to work with meetings Make or get a large cube / a box Change the textures (images) in the box: Create images in PowerPoint & bring into SL as textures Drag-and-drop images onto the box Create a website / wiki that is linked into the box (details on implementation are in the wiki)

8. Getting / sending notification Reading what is next to you; text chats “Friending” others Sending message – when online / when offline Many ways – start with the following: Right-click an avatar; make