Do all educators a favor

Dont wear bling or overload a classroom with your particles that have nothing to do with the class.

Do show up on time. Rebooted, refreshed and inventory folder ready to go.

Don't distract the class if you are observing the class. With your personal builds unless you ask if its ok. (Sometimes your scripts can bump a class into crashing, or even your prims be too much that there is an automatic parcel return and your prims dont get returned first, its the older ones that do and thats a nightmare to deal with)

Do get creative with learning the tools you learned in the class.

Dont show up with a chip on your shoulder ready to argue.

Have a considerate mindset at classes.

If you arent going to be participating in the event.

Stay on the sidelines unless otherwise suggested.

Thanks :)

Successful Endeavors

Did 3 classes this week.
Taught The Scripted Snowman class in voice and chat it was a great success.
Did a course about creating gestures and another on scripting sensual foods.

Today I feel accomplished. I got another 2 potential teachers on the team. Lakira taught a class and I have the subscribe o matic approved and began the process of posting blog notes about permissions on the FSBU page. In the process of doing the posting, I learned how to edit posts and add photographs to them. I can now go back and post images of events that transpired and are documented in the timeline.

Brilliant really.

I was hired on as an assistant to Dean at SSW. and I still Dean at FSBU. We'll see how well this goes. Also theres great success with SL Teachers without Borders and we're on the Wiki for educational resource in the "Schools List."

Officially for this month we have averaged 3 classes a week which is great. Classes are being more regularly scheduled. Im very overjoyed about this.

YAAAAY
Todays mood: Pretty thankful!

My Creed Author Unkown.

"In some way, however small and secret, each of us is a little mad. . . Everyone is lonely at bottom and cries to be understood; but we can never entirely understand someone else, and each of us remains part stranger even to those who love us . . . . It is the weak who are cruel ~ gentleness is to be expected only from the strong . . . . Those who do not know fear are not really brave, for courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined . . . . You can confront what can be imagined . . . . You can understand better if you look at them ~ no matter how old or impressive they may be ~ as if they are children. For most of us never mature; We simply grow taller . . . . Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. . . . . The purpose of life is to matter ~ To count to stand for something, to have it make some difference that we lived at all."


This poem has profound affect on my life as an individual. I find that when I have conflict with others. I am reminded of this poem. I am also reminded about self worth, determination, integrity too. All I want is to be supported, understood, loved, shown some romance in life, given opportunity to help all around me exceed. Things are standing in my way. My self worth has been deteriorating last couple of weeks. Which results in my effectivness as an individual being twarted. I am not turning into a horrible person. I am being in a position of not being understood, changing, evolving and the power taken from me results in my pushing away. I can let go that which inhibits my true will. My Greatest works and redirect those energies to focus truly on success.

A Blog Tutorial Series

This is a beginning of a blog series on how to utilize your rights where purchasing objects and tools from other creators are concerned. The purpose of these upcoming posts is to educate others on the reasons why Full Permissions does not mean "Do anything you want with this purchase."

This series will go over the subject matter below in depth:

Copyrights
Content Creation
Terms of Service
User Licensing Agreement
Open Source
Public Domain
GNU
Permissions
Digital Millenium Copyright Act
Wiki for Secondlife with Source information about these expectations
Responsibility
Integrity

The information in this blog series will be posted on notecards and given to SL Teachers without Borders (SLT) for open source use. Terms will be written on the tools so that schools or instructors can utilize the information for their own particular reasons.

The Subject matter is about our rights and the rights the creators have to objects. To protect you, and the creators, not have Linden Labs repeat itself on the subject as well.

Stay tuned to tonight's post where we will explore these subjects one at a time.
Even the best course material on SecondLife(TM) can be given a user license agreement or turned into Opensource.

Stay tuned. Learn more! Get the Scoop, Be Informed.

Photo by Russell Applemoor

This course was originally taught at Cupids Univeristy back when I was Head Professor there. I retaugt this course at Fermis to find that the scripts I tested earlier that day were not working that evening. Even the nadu cushion class had script errors. Botom line is I am needing to learn how to script. I think Toady is going to remedy the problem.


This course will be taught all the way until Winter Solstice. (December 21s)
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Since June

The Teachers Orientation I had several months ago was so well received that the ideas that I modelled at this event I spearheaded in coordination has become an example to others to model in their own ways. I created a presentation slideshow of the orientations agenda which was never done before at FSBU. Arthur Built the Headquarters so that we could build a teachers resource area and training area (Which the resources have been removed just this last week due to sim-lag. and most likely these tools will be relocated to SLT headquarters instead for all educators upon approval) and we had great spearheaded discussions led by Kai Eldritch, Bosco Gray, Northlight Sodwind and Arthur Fermi. I pretty much kept the momentum going by being used to this style of educational conference. Always give credit where credit is due I owe Athur and Kai a bunch of gratitude for allowing me the freedom to lead that event. Now that the past is where it is. The momentum for knowledge base advancement has become more of a need in the managment realm of FSBU. Which I am an admin due to being responsible for education in the sandbox. However the delegation has chose to filter towards Advisors. Which allows me to focus on the education base of FSBU. Talks of facilitating a SL Teachers Without Borders Teachers Training seminar at this venue as well.

A few months back Arthur and I discussed events in the sandbox that nuture Fermi conciousness and community involvement relating to all aspects of the sandbox business. From the Builder to the store owner, to the history of the sandbox, the volunteer system of the sandbox and the education base.

The voice of need and reason have been heard. The coordinating skills that were used an example are being facilitated to other individuals to take leadership in their own ways. In some ways this is good it facilitates stewardship and a nurturing leadership fostering community involvement. (Not so off base from the idea and concept of SL Teachers without Borders)

As of yesterday we had a meeting of the Admins. Several Admins have taken liberty to be leaders making these subjects work for the Mangers of the sandbox. Theres a need for a level of consistency in the group and this community event will make everyone aware of the expectations.

In experience with facilitation and conference leadership I have noticed the positive efforts can lead to two directions. Im just reminded of my personal clauses and aspire to be successful as an individual star that blazes in a company of them.

I will be posting a blog about the subject of Copyrights, DMCA and Awareness of Content Creation Laws. It will be utilized at Fermi but will become a SLT resource for all instructor.

My goals as Dean: (In addition to teaching classes)

To Gather the interested in creating classes that are really a need in our group:

Gimp
Paint.net
Blender
Scripting
Basic Knowledge of SL
Basic Knowledge of SL TOS
Holiday classes
Advanced Level Courses (More instructors teaching them)
Intermediate level courses
& Beginner Level Courses
Facilitating the Tutor program
as well as coordinating Conferences, Lectures, Discussions and Alternative Courses.
Not to mention Build Contests (hosted by Arthur Fermi)
Sandbox Games such as Primtionary
or the ever so popular Speed Build Events.

Establish a resource for Sl Teachers without Borders that focuses on where to go to learn certain tools about building, avatar development & more.

Its pretty late and this is a last minute ramble before I sleep.

I taught 5 classes in 7 days:
Pole of Submission class for a private mature sim
Permissions discussion
Snowy the Penguin Emitter
Snowman Snowglobe
Nadu Cushion class for a private mature sim.

The snowglobe class filled the sim. No one could get in for an hour LOL!


I do belive my work is done for the day. Not to mention the hours dedicated to teaching & coordinating events and posts for the Sandbox and University.

My Real Life has been increadibly busy the last month. With Coordinating a Ball, and this coming weekend a drum circle event and the following 2 other events and some medical issues being taken care of as well. Its no wonder I ever sleep at all.

I love what I do mind you. I am not complaining.

Prep in Progress

Todays post is about the last days accomplishments.

I moved my Enter the Realm store over by the University. A spot became readily available I rented the spot immediately. The other store in the parcel has 14 days on its tag. I hope for those days to be moved to the new store. I have 3 shops in that parcel. 1 belongs to my Alt, the other 2 belong to JeZeBeLes Realm. Purpose of Enter the Realm is to sell Mature content items, and inventory reduction items. Things I wont wear anymore and I know someone else will appreciate. Essentially a mini yardsale in a 25 prim shop.

As for education, today we installed a new instructor at Fermi University. LaKira Ratelle she and I have many qualities that are very similar in our businesses. We sell mermaid products, we are close enough in age, we both live in the same region there bouts in RL and we are also interested in educating. We both have stores in similar sims. Its kind of scary were both brunette too. She was given the go ahead to start planning classes and has 2 classes formed already. I hope that her experience with us becomes very enriched as time goes by.

We have 3 applicants for training to teach at the University. No one has really stepped forward to do apprentiship program. It might not be time for such a thing.

Todays accomplishments: We set up a classroom in the sky, we also created more paperwork for the teachers to read pertaining to teaching tools. I also copied them for SL Teachers without Borders. Sent a file to Morrigan and Panya sent me some teacher tools to send off to Morrigan as well.

Doing few things in Second Life (TM) was somewhat frustrating. For instance, Jez Avitar did not have the ability to walk straight today. Rather large builds in the sandbox prevent her from flying. Very strange last few days on SL (TM). I wonder if something was seriously broken. The other issue I had was chronically being in packet loss mode. My computer had to think alot today. Take a few steps. (Think) Open inventory (THINK) strange.
Hope soon the grid will be more stable & dependable. Macs users (myself) have it harder than others in many ways.

I count my blessings however that I have the ability to log into Second Life (TM) at all.