Hello Harrison, don't we all have 9 lives? Second Life is a virtual world which was created a couple of years ago and is inhabited by some millions of people. A free client program called the Second Life Viewer enables its users, called Residents, to interact with each other through avatars. Residents can explore, meet other residents, socialize, participate in individual and group activities, and create and trade virtual property and services with one another, or travel throughout the world.
All major US Universities and many non-profit organizations have their training sites in Second Life. For example, I visited the Centre for Virtual Native Lands, a education site on Native Americans. I just posted a short article about the conference experience, at http://www.change-management-blog.com/2009/07/conference-and-world-cafe-meeting-in.html (you can see some photos, unfortunately my video technology did not work well). While the World Café community has already started to inhabitate and utilize SL, I haven't heard about an Open Space workshop done there. It would be quite a challenge to do so but it is quite a difference to other forms of virtual meetings because it comes much closer to real meetings (you can move around, meaning "physically" use the Law of Two Feet, use voice or chat technologies, use whiteboards etc.). But, as I said, creating the environment for an Open Space workshop - as an experiment would be worth the try. Anybody out there who wants to support me? * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
