Chat Transcript for 081108

NergizK: A directory is a wonderful idea.
Olando7 Decosta: such a directory would be extremely useful
Crap Mariner: /me suggests having LL act as a caretaker for a secondlife.edu domain
CeAire Decosta: Yes. it would Olando7
JenzZa Misfit: great idea !
malburns: Fleep made Hamlet's page today!
NergizK: What is Hamlet's page?
Olando7 Decosta: are there mixed reality sessions?
CeAire Decosta: Neat!
Olando7 Decosta: great
malburns: New world Notes
Olando7 Decosta: that is fabulous
Bjorlyn Loon: NOTHING ON THE PAGE YET, BUT..... TO KEEP UP WITH METANOMICS AT SLCC 2008, Check in regularly at:
http://www.metanomics.net/SLCC2008
Ami Champion: Sounds interesting
Kevni Koolhoven: indeed!
Ami Champion: I will come ;}
Gwenette Writer: We rock!! Especially Fleep:))
Bettina Tizzy: Beyers is, after all, a numbers man. He knows where the sweet spot is in SL.
Fleep Tuque: hehe
Olando7 Decosta: /me applauds
CeAire Decosta: Hi Jules!
Fleep Tuque: Thanks all! :)
malburns: applauds Flep
Ami Champion: Hey!
Bjorlyn Loon: PLEASE ASK YOUR QUESTIONS AND GIVE YOUR IDEAS IN CHAT.....TO ASK YOUR QUESTIONS, type them in open local chat. Preface it with the word QUESTION:
Fleep Tuque: (catching up on reading backchat!)
Fleep Tuque: Great idea crap!
Fleep Tuque: I'll be sure to include that in the suggestions. :)
Bjorlyn Loon: LANGUAGE LAB: http://www.languagelab.com/en/
Hydra Shaftoe: I cant perch on that globe. it's all silvery now. I'd fall off :(
CeAire Decosta: Hi Amparia!
txell Darcy: HI Amparia :)
Amparia Ecksol: Hi txell
Azwaldo Villota: QUESTION: Will Language Lab be developing content for instruction in other languages, such as Chinese?
Ami Champion: Smiles at Lowri
Crap Mariner: Are the actors 1-1 with the avatars, or do they run multiple sessions to expand coverage of the roles?
Sean Cinquetti: waves at Lowri Mills
Ami Champion: smiles at ling
Nany Kayo: excellent. Spanish is very important in the US
Azwaldo Villota: Muy bien!
Lowri Mills: waves
Hjoerdis Stenvaag: Question: How do you decide what hours are to be covered? Given that we are 24 hours here in SL?
JenzZa Misfit: ** someone here at Muse has a " CHIMES " sound effect occuring *** Please disable that right away ** thanks *
Sean Cinquetti: are there "tours" at Language Labs where an interested curious SLifer...who is already a good english speaker...can see samples of your classes
Ami Champion: Lang Lab is open 27/7 too!!
Hjoerdis Stenvaag: close enough
Hjoerdis Stenvaag: aa is the same as å and is a bit like a long english "o"
Ami Champion: For tours you can IM me Ami or email me at marybeth@languagelag.com
Claude Desmoulins: QUESTION: How does grammar learning happen in an environment focused on communicate immersion and how do you ensure that students learn oral and written communication skills?
Claude Desmoulins: *communicative
Ami Champion: marybeth@languagelab.com
Dizzy Banjo: watts your mic is open i think
Olando7 Decosta: QUESTION: what is the business model
Sean Cinquetti: thanks!
Ami Champion: *waves
Ami Champion: for the future Spanish classes
Hydra Shaftoe: I can actually see languages being one of the better uses for SL
Robert Bloomfield: can someone paste some links on CEF?
Bjorlyn Loon: FOR MORE LINKS, BACKGROUND AND A BIO OF OUR GUEST: http://metanomics.net/archive081108
malburns: http://www.cef.org i think
Free Radar HUD: /me v1.1 by Crystal Gadgets
Carolrb Roux: it seems like it
Bjorlyn Loon: TECHNOLOGY REVIEW ARTICLE: http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/18510/?a=f
Bluewave Ogee: QUESTION: So far, what is the largest number of students at 1 of your sims at the same time? Do you use Voice?
Crap Mariner: (can also draw from pool of retired people that are homebound.)
Hjoerdis Stenvaag: Question: I can see how this would work for grammar and building confidence in conversation, but how do you deal with the grunt work of learning vocabulary?
Roger Amdahl: QUESTION: Will matching people with native speakers whose language they try to learn a part of the education ??
malburns: One of the best things about SL must be ppl larning language are able to go to locations where they can actively practice the language with others outside the curriculum too
Bettina Tizzy: QUESTION: How many hours was that Saudi student using Languagelab?
Nany Kayo: Question: Will the results of your research on language learning in virtual worlds be made available to other organizations involved in teaching languages?
Crap Mariner: /me does not want to learn the word for Mammoth
Bluewave Ogee: QUESTION: So far, what is the largest number of students at 1 of your sims at the same time? Do you use Voice?
Dizzy Banjo: lol
Evgenie Vollmar: lol
Ami Champion: *rubs her head
Ami Champion: /smiles
Ami Champion: Dorms have many at a time
Bluewave Ogee: thank you :-)
Bluewave Ogee: Ami - how many in dorms at a time on 1 sim?
Ami Champion: two bldgs 5 levels
Ami Champion: I am not sure of the exact number of rooms
Ami Champion: I have counted 15 to twenty there at one time
Ami Champion: but time zones make it vary
Bluewave Ogee: thanks, Ami
Ami Champion: /smiiles at ling
ling Markstein: / :)
Ami Champion: have formed close friendships
Ami Champion: around the world
Ami Champion: *smiles at the work ahead
Bjorlyn Loon: Ami is a part of those close friendships too.... She and the students at Language Lab raised more Lindens in 24 hours than had ever been done before for a charity... for the victims of the Chinese earthquake. Ami, how much did you raise total?
CeAire Decosta: Hi Gray!
Ami Champion: THEY ROCK!!!!
Dodge Ash: /thanks guys ,gotta go ,see u
Gray Nefarious: Hi CeAire
Ami Champion: we raised over a $1000 US in a continue 24 hurs
Ami Champion: but we are still taking and it is triple that now
Ami Champion: for a VR world quite good
Ami Champion: 100% goes to China
Nany Kayo: Question: Are you using your own resources to orient new students into SL, or are you sending them through the usual Help Islands routine on their own?
Ami Champion: it is converted directly to RMD from lindens
Ami Champion: our own resources
Ami Champion: I head up a WONDERFUL team
Ami Champion: that helps orient from voice to to SL moving around
Ami Champion: our Welcome ARea is open and manned 24/7
Ami Champion: by people from over 22 different countries
Ami Champion: even Texas
Ami Champion: *smiles at Lowri
Bjorlyn Loon: LANGUAGE LAB: http://www.languagelab.com/en/
CeAire Decosta: Hi Shaman!
Cindy Ecksol: /me laughs at the idea of texas as a "different country"
Bjorlyn Loon: lol ! Texas sort of is its own country!
Ami Champion: Ever been there
Ami Champion: /giggles
Cindy Ecksol: /me smiles
Ami Champion: my daddy is Texan so she know I am teasing
Dirk Talamasca: We used to be another country so nothing unusual about that
Hydra Shaftoe: /me runs to pick up grandma
toster Oh: I think that's actually a promo of the tourist bureau - "Texas - It's a whole other country!"
Nany Kayo: "our own resources" Thanks, Ami. Can Language Labs offer any insights into how to orient newcomers to SL?
Bjorlyn Loon: good question Nany!
Ami Champion: how long do you have
Nany Kayo: As long as it takes. : )
Cindy Ecksol: good friend of mine whose family has been in Tuscon for generations still makes a point of telling people that it wasn't THEIR choice to be part of the US.....ditto for much of Texas
toster Oh: Good answer Ami!
JenzZa Misfit: pfffft ! kids stufff
Ami Champion: come vist and we can talk
Nany Kayo: We need to bring people inworld and get them moving quickly, without the distractions of the main Second Life front door in the wa.
Kevni Koolhoven: lively isnt lively
Ami Champion: yes
JenzZa Misfit: Kevni :) indeed
Nany Kayo: Will do. Thank you!
Ami Champion: many of our helpers are also SL mentors
Ami Champion: they are the best
Crap Mariner: When Lively gets hooks into other Google products, it might be interesting.
JohnHenry Ames: Hello
Fleep Tuque: nod Crap
Ami Champion: email me at marybeth@languagelab.com
Nany Kayo: The mentors I have talked to shrug when I ask them how to get info.
JenzZa Misfit: just wait until SL is out of BETA *heh*
Nany Kayo: SL is not accepting new volunteers.
Fleep Tuque: rofl Jenz
toster Oh: I haven't been back into Lively since the first few days. Is it still lagging unacceptably?
JenzZa Misfit: lol
Bjorlyn Loon: FOR MORE LINKS, BACKGROUND AND A BIO OF OUR GUEST: http://metanomics.net/archive081108
Ami Champion: Very proud of the team
Ami Champion: repersent over 22 countries
GoSpeed Racer: aren't the Lindens taking the Orientation islands offline?
JenzZa Misfit: they did last friday
malburns: Massively claimed today that Lindens are giving up Orientation Islands as a "bad job" - lol
malburns: Yep GoSped
Cindy Ecksol: what's replacing "orientation"?
Nany Kayo: who knows. they are a mess with griefers and noise and various trash
Claude Desmoulins: So how are they going to orient newcomers?
Bjorlyn Loon: Help Islands, Cindy!
Cindy Ecksol: lol!
GoSpeed Racer: Help Is;ands
malburns: good question Cindy - anarchy?
JenzZa Misfit: Cindy :: resident owned orientation islands as well
Ami Champion: And his employess appreciate his attention!!!!
CeAire Decosta: Hi Shark!
Bettina Tizzy: (enthusiastic applause)
Cindy Ecksol: /me thinks it'll be an interesting task to get newcomers to find the Help Islands in the first place....
Sean Cinquetti: thanks David/Edgeware for the presentation
Ze Novikov: thank you both!!
malburns: lol - 5 yrs in beta!
Crap Mariner: /me applauds
Carolrb Roux: thanks
malburns: applauds !
Bjorlyn Loon: great program!
JenzZa Misfit: :)
Ami Champion: Hey!
Lyr Lobo: /me claps
Dirk Talamasca: Not many people signing up so maybe that will alleviate the situation.
Michele Mrigesh: Very interesting! I look forward to the Spanish program...
Nany Kayo: lol
Lludmila Mirrikh: Si.
Carolrb Roux: I have been doing the beta of the Spanish programme it has been really good
Zotarah Shepherd: hehe It reminds me of the big red ball in the old Prisoner series.
malburns: so long as Beyers doesnt become bot can live with i guess!
Lludmila Mirrikh: Big white ball.
Lludmila Mirrikh: "Rover"
GoSpeed Racer: "Rover"
Fleep Tuque: laugh Mal
Bettina Tizzy: Extortion helps
Fleep Tuque: muaha
Fleep Tuque: bribery!
Fleep Tuque: ;)
Bettina Tizzy: Pulling toenails :)
Lludmila Mirrikh: ow
Crystam Flyer: sound gone?
Cindy Ecksol: no, sounds still on...
Crystam Flyer: tx closing and reopening video helped
Dizzy Banjo: /me declares himself an experimentalist :D
malburns: augmentation versus escapist i say - immersion is learning pre=requisite!
JenzZa Misfit: /me is an EricClaptonist !
Fleep Tuque: laugh
Dizzy Banjo: hahaah
malburns: lol JenZa
Olando7 Decosta: lol
Bjorlyn Loon: NEXT WEEK MICROSOFT..... MONDAY THE 18th AT NOON!
Bjorlyn Loon: SPECIAL 2 PM SLT TOMORROW ON METANOMICS: ENHANCING YOUR VIEW
JenzZa Misfit: **GREAT SHOW EVERYONE !! *** 2 for the price of one this week ** another LIVE show tomorrow -- 2 PM SL TIME *****
Bjorlyn Loon: about the Second Life Viewer..... User Interface
CeAire Decosta: .-'`'-. APPLAUSE APPLAUSE .-'`'-.
CeAire Decosta: Bravo!
malburns: eeek! MS
JenzZa Misfit: lol @ mal
JenzZa Misfit: its ok ! *pat pat*
Dizzy Banjo: /me w00ts and claps
Bjorlyn Loon: AND PLEASE TAKE OUR SURVEY! FOR INSTRUCTIONS, IM VOGEL IDEATOR.
Lyr Lobo: thanks *smiles*
Bettina Tizzy: Great show!
Fleep Tuque: /me APPLAUDS!!!
txell Darcy: thank you!
Fleep Tuque: Great show!
Lludmila Mirrikh: YAY! (yay!)
malburns: applauds
Sean Cinquetti: *waves at Lyr
Olando7 Decosta: /me applauds
malburns: great show
Michele Mrigesh: Applauds!
JenzZa Misfit: YES ! TALK TO VOGEL HES A BALL !!
Sonja Strom: Thank you!
Bilbe Gaffer: Thanks. Great show.
Carolrb Roux: thanks
Michele Mrigesh: Thanks Cindy...
JenzZa Misfit: *groan*
Olando7 Decosta: thanks a lot for yet another great show
Cindy Ecksol: ***** APPPPPPPLLLLAAAUUUSSSSEEEEEEE***********
Farley Scarborough: /me applauds
Kevni Koolhoven: great show!
Crystam Flyer: great
Zotarah Shepherd: /me applaudes: Great show
CeAire Decosta: Thank you for coming to Rockcliffe everyone!
Crap Mariner: /me applauds
Fleep Tuque: rofl
CDB Barkley: Adios amigos
Azwaldo Villota: cheers
Olando7 Decosta: i have to go, see you all
Mikelo Serevi: That sounded interesting. Too bad I missed most of it.
Sonja Strom: Thanks for hosting Cindy :-)
Crystam Flyer: cu olando
Olando7 Decosta: see u tomorrow maybe
Crap Mariner: Solution: Learn French. Then you can be the Ugly Frenchman?
Ami Champion: I think I am pretty cute
Bettina Tizzy: /me wants to learn Japanese, Chinese, Portugese, and modern Greek
Beyers Sellers: modern greek?
Ami Champion: vist our website
malburns: Wants to learn Duck language
Bettina Tizzy: LOVE the sound of modern Greek
Ami Champion: languagelab.com
Beyers Sellers: yyou just have to be the uppity techie, Bettina
Bettina Tizzy: happy language = modern Greek
Ami Champion: if it sounds like one
Crap Mariner: /me wants to learn Cat: "Get off of the clean laundry NOW!"
Beyers Sellers: classic greek isn't good enough for you!
Bettina Tizzy: heee
Fleep Tuque: Nice! Great show. :)
Nazz Aya: Can I has cheezburger?
Bettina Tizzy: Thanks for the show, y'all!
Lyr Lobo: /me waves
Transcriptionist Writer: Bye all, thanks for a great show and all your hard work.
Fleep Tuque: Bye all!
Fleep Tuque: :)
GoSpeed Racer: YAY! (yay!)
Bjorlyn Loon: Turning off CHatbridge!
Dizzy Banjo: c u later peeps :D
GoSpeed Racer: so the ChatBridge is like a two-way raadio for chat?
GoSpeed Racer: were they in another sim?
Dizzy Banjo: /me stays to check out Jenz's gear
Bettina Tizzy: thanks! 3star Tyne
JenzZa Misfit: yay !
Claude Desmoulins: Bye all.
Nazz Aya: Poor Vogel... Hes traped in that ball :(