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Avatars and Appearance: What’s your ‘dress code’? NMC Teachers Buzz

CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) : Jul 19, 2007 09:18am

Our next NMC Campus Teacher’s Buzz Session is Monday July 23 , 9:00am SLT/PDT (check your local time). This time we are planning a hopefully active discussion session format based on implications, decisions, and approaches for “dressing up” your avatar.

Image created with BigHugeLabs Mosaic Maker using mostly images flickr photos tagged “people” ** from the NMC Campus collection (download large version of mosaic, 1Mb JPEG). See below for the individual photo credits. Oops, so many pictures to choose, it looks like we have Sean twice- he’s worth doubling!

We chose this following some great discussion on the Second Life Educators Listserv (SLED), and by continuing the conversation in SL, we can not only tell, we can “show”. We hope to talk about identity, reasons for our avatar choices, views on educators’ appearances in SL (what is “professional”?)… so please bring your favorite avatar ’sets’ with you (as quite a few people have more than one!) and landmarks of places to visit for “dressing up” (like DarkDharma’s Isle).

So plan to meet up at Monday, July 23, 9am SLT/PDT (check your local time) for about an hour at Boracay (SLURL: http://tinyurl.com/yqj55o ). Cocktails .. and coffee … colleagues are all available!

1. Sean McDunnough, 2. Serious, 3. Lovely Anya, 4. Face on a Prim Avatar, 5. Interview Avatar 1, 6. Second Life for Education Discussion, 7. Eloise Keeps an Eye on the Action, 8. Dexka Mah, 9. Gary Hazlett, 10. Desi’s Gaze, 11. Booth Watch Dog, 12. Ars Virtua Panel Discussion, 13. Her Curious Gaze, 14. Face on a Prim Avatar, 15. SUNY Conference Presentation, 16. Pathefinder Linden, 17. Mystery Avatar, 18. Jetemy Starts the Session, 19. Corwin Carillon, 20. Walter, 21. Shake It, 22. I Work For IBM, 23. Grrrr!, 24. Session One Was Great, 25. Gus Needs to Rez and Jared, 26. Lyr Lobo, 27. Missing, 28. A Wixardly Presence, 29. Sean McDunnough, 30. Regis Kokkigai, 31. Prof Beliveau - Easy Rider?, 32. The Interviewee, 33. Lyr Lobo, 34. Dan Undertone, 35. Ninmah, 36. Johnny99 Rocks

See also:

• People and Their Avatars (accompanies July 30, 2007 Second Life article in Newsweek)
• You and Your Avatar flickr group
• Alter Ego Avatars and their Creators (New Scientist) images form the book Alter Ego: Avatars and Their Creators by Robbie Cooper
• The Avatar as New Literacy and The Avatar as Communication presentations by Anya Ixchel (aka Angela Thomas)

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