Some of my colleagues and I are looking into the prospect of using SecondLife to create a short machinema style video for use on campus and are hoping to use some of the voice gesture options. Having just looked into how you activate them I wanted to take a moment to share my findings.
I’m hardly an expert in the ways of SecondLife however, so there may be aspects of this I’ve overlooked – or perhaps more effective ways of conveying realistic body language. If you can shed some …

FOREWORD
Late last week, through a wild series of connections I learned through Jim Groom at University Mary Washington in Virginia that there is an instance of WordPress Multi-User (WPMU) being run locally out of EMPA at UNSW, called New South Blogs. After initially wallowing in a sense of unimportance about not being aware of this fact beforehand I’ve begun to realise the significance of all this.
It is my hope that the seeds of our preliminary discussions represent an opportunity to nurture and grow a participatory culture that spans faculties …