Based on the visual  evaluation of the three class projects the Swim up Bar gets first place, the Art and Furniture group second and the clothing store  third.

Based on skills acquired, self-motivated planning and work as well as group members’ initiative, understanding of business building on secondlife as well as with creativity and good team work- the Swimup team still wins , but the Clothing Store comes second and the Art and Furniture comes third.

Grade- wise – all of you are pretty close together for the 40% of the writing up part – you will see that on the blackboard grades section by Wednesday night. Your blogging part 2 grades will be fully loaded only by Saturday, however.

All the teams have also been awarded a slot on the facebook application called Cyberdivalive Creations. Feel free to gift your friends on facebook and show off. Those of you who are working with me on the women’s studies History month cyberselves work will also be similarly honored.

I look forward to seeing your presentations – and I have invited people from the whole dept – so you never know who will come.

r

It will be a fully SL class on Monday December 8th.

See you in Olscamp 106 on December 10th.

On December 12th Friday we will meet in Hayes 107

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Final exam presentations will be on Tuesday December 16th at 2.30 pm in Olscamp 106. I will invite some guests.

You should have completed reading Chapters 1 to 8 of the book, finished blogging about chapters and continue to blog about your SL explorations. Start preparing for finals week presentations of group work.
Final papers are due on the last day of class.

Class location: Music Computer Lab on M and W.

Monday, December 1st,     2008: 2:30-3:20pm

Monday, November 17th,    2008: 2:30-3:20pm – music bldg

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008: 2:30-3:20pm music bldg

Friday November 21 2008 – 2.30 to 3.20 – via secondlife. IM rad Zabibha she will be there getting online from San Diego – so dont think there is no class!!!

Monday November 24th – 2.30 to 3.30 p.m – come to Olscamp location for a recap and analysis of class activities. Make sure you have read Chapter 8 and part of Chapter 9.

and after that…HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

more updates after November 24th.

By now you should be done with blogging about

CHAPTER 8: Political Economy 205
Creationist capitalism–Money and labor–Property–Governance–Inequality–Platform and social form.

For the week starting November 17th – you need to read and blog about the remaining chapter in the book:

CHAPTER 9: The Virtual 237
The virtual human–Culture and the online–Simulation–Fiction and design–The massively multiple–Toward an anthropology of virtual worlds.

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In addition as always you will continue blogging your secondlife experiences and group process.

Tues., Dec. 16 3:30 – 5:30 pm

You will all be doing power point presentations of your group work on this day in Olscamp classroom.

Your final group papers are due on the last day of class by email (I do not want printouts – I will accept only email submissions )

more on this later by email and via blackboard.

Monday, November 10th,    2008: 2:30-3:20pm

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008: 2:30-3:20pm

Friday, November 14th,    2008: 2:30-3:20pm

Monday, November 17th,    2008: 2:30-3:20pm

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008: 2:30-3:20pm

Monday, December 1st,     2008: 2:30-3:20pm

Wednesday, December 3d,   2008: 2:30-3:20pm

Friday, December 5th,     2008: 2:30-3:20pm

rad Zabibha bought a couple items.

You have furniture for sale – no art yet. I am waiting to see how you acquire art for sale.

Looks good -except the way you have set your objects for sale – when someone buys them, they will have to take them with them and you have no display left in your store.

Talk to me in class when you discover two of your items have disappeared. I will explain what you need to do.

This morning rad Zabibha and Cyb Tabla went touring your projects.

1] rad bought an Obama shirt from the Group doing the Clothing store at the Taste of India Mall. However – there was no shirt in it. She suggests the group actually place a shirt in the display object. It is possible to see that at least three of the group members are putting in effort at building and designing clothes for the store. I hope to see more visible effort on the part of other members in the group.

2] Cyb went to the swimup bar! She bought a martini. it looks good. One of the problems of course is space – for instance, going to the edge and trying to be on the dance floor pushes the avatar into the mall next door which kicks the avatar back to the bar….

Part of trying to do a good business on SL is to try to use the resources you have well – so I think the group needs to try and use the space well and not try to ask for more.

Also – I really hope each of the group members is being made to work equally hard on the project.