Wasn’t quite awake today. Slept until almost 6am and didn’t have my brain in gear before I got the feet in motion.
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Nate, great news about ZC gettin’ so close to audio reality. Thumbs up, sir! 🙂
Don’t forget you need the first chapter of the next Wong book before Owner’s Share goes to print.
I love the idea of Pip books.
While a Pip story would be great, we in my little circle would love to know what might be happening on the “Cape Grace” front. Will we be getting more of Sarah Krugg’s story. We really loved all those characters.
So glad to know the 2nd draft of Tanyth’s second story is out to beta readers. Another book we have been awaiting with anticipation.
Thank you for letting us have a little peek into the process. Sleepy or otherwise. 🙂
Oh, Cape Grace … thank you, Tibbi.
That might be the piece I’m looking for. 🙂
Yeahhhh… Important little piece it might be.
Always loved the ‘but it’s not real’ thing. The mother on the phone is the example I use too. Was talking to a friend about the issues with just taking a classroom model and trying to simply remake it in something like second life but he reckoned there couldn’t be a good way of teaching folks through a computer as ‘you can’t build relationships in a virtual world’ and ‘it’s not real so it won’t work properly’ etc. Then again, he ended up going on about ‘sad weird nerds’ having cyber girlfriends on MMOs so….
He did have a hard time explaining why he doesn’t have to fly home to Ireland every time he talks to his mother because a phone call happens in a virtual world that isn’t real 😀
Yeah. I got into SecondLife because of the “we’ll build a classroom there!” issue.
Unfortunately it works just fine as a classroom.
And I say unfortunately, because what happens is that teachers take one of the most amazing learning opportunities on the planet, siphon all the life out of it, clamp down on all the opportunities available, and present powerpoint based lectures.
One of the most amazing sessions I ever attended was a meeting where we all danced instead of sitting in the chairs. Organizers were shocked that the interaction (based on logged communications) *doubled*. These kinds of findings are anecdotal but so important to understanding the relationships among self, avatar, and cognition.
Ah, well. Probably be another 20 years finding anybody who wants to study it now.
Yeah. I was suggesting that with something like second life you could do much more that you could in a bricks and mortar class room but that it’s amazing how it becomes, as you say, powerpoint delivery 🙁
One of my biggest gripes for years has been my old uni bringing in bloackboard and then doing silly things like limiting the amount of space per lecturer to 20mb, the lack of search functionality, etc. What a great opportunity, not just wasted but actively suffocated. Then again, without giving lecturers any guidance on how to use the system, it became a storage place for the odd powerpoint presentation (which of course had to be taken down after a few weeks to make room due to the 20mb thing) so was effectively useless anyway. Such a shame.