Intellagirl turned me on to “stigmergy.” It is Second Life’s Greatest strength. It is the ONLY animal of its kind - a narrative-agnostic, 3D MMO streaming client with easily editable persistent objects hosting a sizable, active community. As a conveyor of permanent written communication it sucks. Notecards are terribly limiting. As a chatting group ware platform it’s likewise weak. “Park you avatar please.” But no other platform could foster such masterpieces of persistent nonverbal communication in learning as:

• Spaceport Alpha
• Svarga
• Virtual Hallucinations
• NMC Campus
• Human Animal

Wandering Yaffle of the _Black Library built an amazing tour bot system and donated it to the educator script library. Also molecule construction kit, chat tools, survey assessment systems, etc.

I presented at Stanford Medical School back in August 24th, 2006 on my Heart Murmur Sim concept piece in SL. See the bios and SMIL video presentations from my section of the two day workshop agenda:

• Mike Korolenko showed Half Life
• Jeremy Kemp pasty MUVE boy
• Laura Kusumoto Olive - the platform under There

Olive by Forterra was the hometeam for this audience; SL an unknown oddball, even though SL is being used for a humanities class last Fall.

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