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Linda Sautereau

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  1. As a native Detroiter and owner of the Detroit City sim in SL, I was excited to read that Motown had come to SL!! I own a live music venue and hoped that this move would take music in SL to another level, RL music company collaborating with SL performers and DJs. What a great thing to contemplate! I love the fact that I get a free HUD to use to dance to some of my favorite Motown songs. It brings back great memories and had me dancing in my chair! But I have to agree with Dana regarding how it depicts my home town. Motown wasn't housed in an old dilapidated warehouse. It was in a house in a neighborhood and later an office near Dana's high school. I hear that the museum is closing; but I'll have to ask my friends back home to get more information about that. I hope not. The LL builders did a great job of showing the current walkway along the riverfront, however! The fact that the music can only be heard by a fraction of SL Residents is appalling! Perhaps LL should have waited until this could be heard worldwide, especially since much of the success of Motown artists is due to their support abroad. Motown stood for class, musical excellence and dignity. The city of Detroit is not (nor was it ever) 100% run-down old buildings, parking lots and parking garages. A simple Google search could have given many pictures of the city...Belle Isle, with it's fountains and conservatory; the Detroit Institute of Arts, with its murals and statue by Rodin; the Fox Theater where the Motown shows were held in the 60's, the Spirit of Detroit statue outside of the city-county building, the Verner's Ginger Ale factory, The Fisher Theater where elementary kids were taken on field trips to learn about classical music. To say that I am disappointed in the way my home town is depicted in SL is an understatement. With some tweaks, this can be a SL Destination that portrays the true city...not the stereotypical view of "urban". SL is better than this and so is my home town. Thank you for reading. https://mcrfb.com/?p=28416
  2. Nalates, I'm using Nvidia GeForce GTX 850M. Interesting that you mention black screens. I've experienced that randomly and with Netflix. This is a fairly new HP Envy notebook, which I bought to use as my "desktop" at home, so I doubt that I can remove the graphics card...especially with my limited hardware abilities. Is GPU-Z a program? I'm totally in the dark about these things. Thanks for your help! Linda
  3. Thanks, Ay Objects are fine...so far. It's the viewer itself that flashes...as if it's being interrupted. Linda
  4. Thanks Al and Ayesha! I'll try your fix, Al... Linda
  5. Thanks! I've already upgraded the graphics driver. I've talked in-world with folks with the same issue; but no one has found a fix yet. Appreciate the empathies.
  6. Has anyone experienced the viewer flashing and flickering? I've tried everything, including updating my graphics driver...operating on Windows 8.1 with Nvidia GEForce GTX graphics card. Any suggestions? Thanks!
  7. I'm a professor at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business. I originally came to SL in March 2007 as part of a Virtual Worlds Faculty Initiative at Penn State University. I teach operations management and procurement. I was among two faculty and one librarian who participated in the pilot program on our campus. I thought that SL would shorten the learning curve of my students in understanding a subject that most do not have an intuition about....unlike marketing, for example. I was correct. The use of SL improved students' understanding of Operations Management concepts because they experienced them. I taught evening Master of Business Administration students at Penn State. The courses were compressed into 7 weeks, so I had to move up Bloom's taxonomy from acquisition of knowledge to application of knowledge in a very short time. SL has been extremely helpful in shortening that learning curve. Students were able to be immersed in the economy of SL and learn Operations Management concepts by comparing and contrasting how those concepts manifest in a virtual environment vs. the real one. They interviewed SL business owners and presented their findings in-world. At Indiana University, I teach undergraduates and they have managed businesses as well as researched the differences between virtual and real businesses. They also present their findings in-world. I've made the exercises more "fun" for them in that I give them 10 sites to visit and report on. This assignment allows them to become familiar with the space prior to working on the main assignment. The feedback from students has been positive. One student told me that took my section because he had heard about the assignment. SL has allowed me to assist a colleague at Tuskegee University to expose his e-commerce students to virtual worlds. Each year, his students and mine conduct a virtual negotiation. My purchasing students would normally have to be the sellers as well as the buyers. This way, my students can experience virtual negotiations as the purchasers, while my colleagues students role play the sellers. I've also done this with a professor who was teaching a sales management class at Indiana State University, which is 1.5 hours from our campus. It has helped all of our students to understand and experience that business can be transacted at a distance. I've presented on virtual worlds in higher education and business at academic conferences nationally and internationally and at the SLCC in 2010. I wrote one of the first articles on teaching in SL for the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research. Positive results are not always readily apparent. In the short term, my students learned Operations Management at a deeper level because they learned by doing. They learned how to collaborate in teams with people they did not know. They learned to express themselves in writing so that they are understood. And, more importantly, they learned that learning never stops. In the long run, my hope is that their view of what "education" is will broaden and that they will embrace different modes of content delivery. For me and my students, the existence of a virtual economy to use as a laboratory for studying operations and other business disciplines is what makes SL the place for us. I know many educators left when the discount was removed. We did a "back of the envelope" make vs. buy and decided that we couldn't afford to hire a system administrator to manage a server and sim-on-a-stick wasn't robust enough for what we need. The support we get for the cost of the island would cost us 3-5 times as much to provde on our own. Our in-house IT folks would have to come up to speed on VW and it's not a high priority item for them. More importantly, the economy would be non-existent. I do take students to other VWs, but their economies are not as robust as SL's. I can also teach them first hand what it's like to run a business in SL since I also have my own island with a jazz club. SL has many vibrant and active communities, the education community being one of the largest. I am very happy to see the renewed interest in educators as an important Linden Labs customer. Linda Sautereau
  8. If you ban someone, do they get a message that they have been banned when you ban them?
  9. We have an island that may interest you. How large is your group and how long is your convention? Linda Sautereau Estate Manager, Kelley School of Business Indianapolis Virtual Campus
  10. Does anyone know how to find out if a private island name is already taken? There was a time when there was a list. Does it still exist?
  11. I'm teaching my RL class using SL. My students who have new accounts using the new viewer are not able to use Search. Is there a reason for this? I can't duplicate the problem by creating a new account because I already have the new viewer and I can access search. Anyone else have this problem? Thanks!
  12. What graphics setting do you turn off to keep the prims from going pink? I have that problem with V3. Thanks!
  13. As a business professor, I am always cognizant that LL is a business first. And I have defended many moves in the past that other educators condemned. However, I know of very few business managers who would double the price of its product or service to one of its most important customers. Educators have stood by SL when the business community, land owners and content creators departed. It was hard enough for me to get our project approved at the current pricing. My dean will surely pull the plug on it now...before it has had a chance to get off the ground. I'm afraid I have to agree that there will be a mass exodus to OpenSim by educators...and not just K-12. Higher education institutions' wallets are just as strained. What a bone headed and ill-conceived decision!
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