NEW CLASS!
Media Archaeology 11 – Working With Other People’s Photos
Date & Time: Friday 22 May 6:30-7:30pm & Saturday 23 May 10:30 – 11:30am (Same content both days. Pick whichever is most convenient)
Location: Ama Ree’s Studio @ Nostradamus-1
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Ryan
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Elle
Processing
Some people have asked for information on Processing and Generative Art. FutureLearn is offering a class on Creative Coding starting on August 3rd.
I also put together some information on Generative Art, Artists & resources (primarily Processing) at GenCreate. It’s sort of minimalist, but might be helpful.
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Oona
Thank you Elle. I’d like to eventually learn this too.
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Elle
You’re welcome, Oona. What you are learning with building and scripting will help you with learning this.
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Neeva
Thanks Elle. You are always so wiling to share. I appreciate that a lot.
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Elle
Thanks Neeva. 🙂
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Edie
Storytelling w Avatars Starts Noon Sunday!
New 4-week class Storytelling w Avatars starts Sunday! Collaborations between Writers, Photographers, Avatar Designers & World Builders!
Join us!
Details:
Interdisciplinary Studies 16, 17, 18, 19 – Explorations with Avatars
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Edie
Interdisciplinary Studies 16, 17, 18, 19 – Explorations with Avatars
Announcing 4 new, and concurrent courses:
Interdisciplinary Studies 16 – Fiction Writing for Avatars
Interdisciplinary Studies 17 – Photography with Avatars
Interdisciplinary Studies 18 – Avatar Design
Interdisciplinary Studies 19 – World Building for AvatarsThese 4 courses will meet concurrently and work together to tell Avatar Stories. We will use the 2 avatars I have created, “Paris Avatar” and “Sydney Avatar”. I’ve chosen unisex names for them so that their identity can be malleable to the stories each learner chooses to tell.
Full details here:
• edies.farm/explorationsImage: Love is Blind by Gonzale
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astrid
Free Online Writing Course
Hi there. Elle brought this to our attention a couple of weeks ago, but I wanted to remind everyone that The Open University is offering a free creative writing course online for the month of May (it began yesterday). There are a few things to do each week (5 minute video, short paragraph to read, and writing exercises – with opportunity to post them for feedback), totaling around 3 hours. You can join or leave at any time, and aren’t compelled to finish each section if you want to jump around. I am going to give it a shot. I’m a little busy for getting into it hardcore, but I’d like to keep the creative juices flowing. If you’d like to join here is a link https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/start-writing-fiction and maybe you can share your written exercises on MU/Stories?? 😉
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Art
I completed this course just before getting involved with MU. Its fantastic! And very flexible how involved you want to get. I will say that realistically I spent much more time with the course than their estimation, but I was doing all the tasks and reading/responding to other peoples work daily. Definitely an enriching experience and there are loads of other great courses too!
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astrid
Awesome! Glad to hear some positive feedback from someone who has done it before!
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Oona
This looks like a great course. Thank you for reminding us Astrid! 🙂 🙂 If I wasn’t so anti-writing I might actually get my act together. hehe
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astrid
LOL Oona, you are in the creative writing department. I think it’s just so easy to get distracted!
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Elle
For MU writers, free class
Start Writing Fiction @FutureLearn
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/start-writing-fiction
Thought this might be of interest to someone.
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Izzy
Awesome Elle!
If anyone (everyone? 🙂 Participates, we should all chime in HERE so peeps can go through it together or compare notes or work, etc!
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Astrid Rimbaud
I love this! How exciting! Care if I share? Yes compare notes and work and have readings at.. La Poeme 😛
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Elle
Astrid,
Yes, please feel free to share the link/info.
I forgot to mention, one of the nice things about FutureLearn is that they usually keep the class content available for a good while after class is officially done (for those who have enrolled). It is great for people who fall behind.
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Astrid Rimbaud
🙂 yay!
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Vanessa
Public Art 198 – Portfolios & Proposals
Want to see the Medici University adventure continue past 30 June? Here’s your chance! In VPA-198 we’ll create Portfolios & LEA Land Grant Proposals and be ready when the call for “Round 9” LG Proposals comes out!
• Syllabus: Virtual Public Art 198
• Image: Designshack.net
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Izzy
Graphic Design 13 – Gimp 4 Dummies
Photoshop is kind of the Graphic Design standard and many MU Learners use it every day.
If you get paid to do RL design work, Photoshop isn’t expensive at all. But if you don’t, it’s a damn expensive piece of software!
Gimp is the free & open alternative. We should have a Gimp class. IDK if anyone we know actually knows Gimp. If You do, we’d love to have you facilitate a Gimp Party!
But if not, let’s just learn it together! We can start the class and fumble around and use MU/Talk or Slack to post screenshots and tips on what we figure out.
Does anyone know Gimp?
What Day / Time would anyone like the Gimp Party to be scheduled for?
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Neeva
I think you mean we should have a gimp “party.” Right? See post below.
What would People love to learn about gimp? I used it some before I got my nifty student-priced version of Photoshop.
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Myra
I use Gimp a lot, but I certainly don’t know* it. The most common use of it in SL is texturing, so I’d like to learn how to use it better for UV mapping and AO mapping of textures.
There’s a step-by-step tutorial on how to do this with PS, here:
https://sldesigner.wordpress.com/2015/02/01/putting-the-fabric-on-full-perm-mesh-templates/It would be nice to have a class on how to do the same thing in Gimp. There are some freebie full perm things on the market we could use for demo purposes.
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Elle
I have to second what Myra said, “I use GIMP a lot, but I certainly don’t know it” It’s a powerful program, but also complex with a non-intuitive user interface. I think the same could probably be said for Photoshop, which I have hardly ever used.
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Izzy
I don’t actually know how many people want to learn Gimp. I do know that for people without the resources to buy it, Photoshop can be very expensive. Gimp is free and open for everyone. So it’s really a desirable platform.
I do know that Oona is someone who really wants to be doing graphics but can’t afford Photoshop and doesn’t know Gimp. She’s been hosting at KATYPERRYOPOLIS! and would love to make fliers for events there but doesn’t have Photoshop and is lost with Gimp.
Part of the reason I expelled all the students, fired all the faculty, and then invited everyone back as learners is that if we are to make progress on our many journeys here at MU, then we must take charge. Nobody needs to be the or an expert to help someone else. So far I’ve done what I can to facilitate Kinesiology 88, Studio Art 1, Studio Art 12, and University 101, and believe me, I’m not even remotely an expert on any of those topics.
If Myra knows a little, Elle knows a little, and Oona has some desire, that sounds like more than most of our classes start with! I’d encourage the 3 of you to pick a time, invite the campus, and see what can be collaboratively learned. If that causes an expert to crawl out of the woodwork, awesome! But if not, I bet Oona’s desire plus whatever Myra and Elle might know might be enough to let Oona make KATYPERRYOPOLIS! fliers. Since she’s wanted to do things like that for a long time, that’d be a great result for MU’s semester @LEA23!
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Elle
That sounds ok to me. If Oona wants to get us some specifics on what she’d like to be able to do/create before hand it would be helpful. I can role play a GIMP co-teacher. 😉
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Izzy
Awesomesauce!!! 😀
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Oona
How about how to make a flyer? Is that a thing you can do in Gimp? I have been trying to figure out how to put stuff on a tee-shirt without much success if that is something anyone has knowledge of.
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Myra
Gimp wouldn’t work well for flyers, because it’s not a publishing tool. It doesn’t do layouts and such. In fact, it’s horrible for handling text.
T-shirts, yes, that it does.
Oona. I mostly make furniture, but the principles of applying textures are mostly identical. Clothing requires a little more tweaking. I don’t think I want to teach a course, but I’m happy to explain it and load you up with links. : )
It’s not too hard once you get the hang of it. Once you do, you’ll realize you could spend hours fussing with a texture to get it just the way you want it. Are you sure you really want that? Prepare yourself for the time sink known as SL building! j/k : )
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Neeva
How about a gimp learning party where we can ask questions of each other as we all try to make a poster or other work of art. I know people who use gimp for book covers. You can definitely make a flyer with it. Let’s pick a time and get Oona going and learn stuff.
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Neeva
Here is a super super basic tutorial on how to make a poster in GIMP.
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Myra
Here’s one on how to make a flyer in Gimp:
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Myra
Yes, I know that invalidates my comment about Gimp not doing flyers, but it further validates my first point – I don’t know Gimp.
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Elle
Well after many incantations, slacks(?), help from Izzy and rmarie (ty!). My GIMP 101 class is on the calendar.
GIMP 101 – Learn basic skills in GIMP open-source software. This class will provide an overview, discussion, optional sharing and support. The course will have a strong guided self-study component. Guidance for further learning on your own and a simple weekly hands-on assignment will be provided at each class.
Class will meet Saturdays 10 – 11 am SLT @ Tullia 14 for 4 weeks.
Class starts Saturday March 28th @ 10 am SLT.Oona, Myra and Neeva are most welcome continue their discussion then. 🙂
Good tutorial links are also welcome.
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Izzy
Schedule of Parties
Oona, Art, and MediciUniversity Resident were having a conversation today, and they came up with an interesting question, why are they called “Classes”?
MU doesn’t have “Students” or “Faculty” anymore, but we still have “Classes”?
Effective today, MU will no longer have any “Classes” or gawd forbid “Courses.” We will still have learning experiences, but they will be called “Parties”.
TIRED: “Schedule of Classes”
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Oona
But but but, i like classes!
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Izzy
it can be your secret Oona. Whenever anybody says “Party” you can just think “Class” in your mind.
Somebody sez,
Party @ KATYPERRYOPOLIS!
Oona hears,
Class @ KATYPERRYOPOLIS!
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Oona
haha i like this idea. 🙂 🙂
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Vanessa
Certificate in Virtual Public Art
Medici University is now offering a Certificate Track in Virtual Public Art!
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Newton
What a wonderful opportunity for focus and accomplishment at MU! Thank you!
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Vanessa
Thanks Newton! When I realized that Dance Anywhere, Jane’s Walk, and Manifesto for Virtual Maintenance Art were all having a “planetary alignment” during the coming 3 months of MU, it was too irresistible an opportunity not to put together a programme.
Needless to say, I was also significantly influenced by your own Cafe Sophistry project!
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rmarie
It was crossing my mind whilst reading your curriculum that doing a CS section could maybe qualify as one of your “tracks.”
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rmarie
(posted on behalf of my dear brother)
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Vanessa
Interesting… tell me more…
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Newton
Well, since the CVPA is all about working toward a compendium of virtual experiences created, perhaps outcomes of the work people do in a CS section could also be applied toward the certificate. So far I know two people will be sharing work at the final Gender and Virtuality gathering on March 29 so they will have “completed” that. It would be neat to give a sense that they are one step closer to a larger MU-related goal. See what you think, or if that even makes sense!
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Vanessa
Storytelling 4 Change
Hey MU Writing Students! Looking for a free class to take? Check out Storytelling for Change from NovoEd:
Acumen and The Ariel Group have created this hands-on course to help you develop your practical skills as a storyteller. Whether you work in an office making presentations in the boardroom, as a teacher with 30 to 300 students, interacting with customers, or one-on-one with individuals, using the elements of story bring you closer to your audience. Using stories makes your messages memorable, gives your audience something to relate to, and above all captures their attention, motivating and inspiring them in new ways. A story taps into more than one element of communicating. Great storytellers are great communicators and effective leaders.
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AlexandreLois1
I love storytellers. Particularly space storytellers. I have a series of non-fiction stories
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Vanessa
Adventures in Writing
Hey MU Writing Students! Looking for a free class to take? Check out Adventures in Writing from Stanford OpenEdX
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