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edna’s 10th birthday bash was quite an event. It was multicast through LiveClassroom and Second Life. Not only a birthday but also a celebration of edna’s constant evolution, simultaneously launching the myedna / me.edu.au service.

The Second Life’s event got people together from around the country and around the world. Another noteworthy point was a few people made some serendipitous connections that were followed up in first life.

Kerry Johnson and Mike Seyfang cobbled together a clever way of broadcasting this through KerryJ’s Second Life avatar - by using an audio mixer to tie together the speeches, music etc and send it via the computer and onto Decka Mah’s terra incognita.

I was tasked record the event in Second Life using video. The next few blog posts will outline:

• getting started with SL - disorientation, learning and blind luck.
• wrangling audio chat
• screen recording the event trails and tribulations
• last minute panic to get chat working with video
• publishing it online

I suspect that my hours of the day have just shrunk once again…