VWBPE sessions

I went to a couple of VWBPE sessions last week.  Again, Second Life has surprised me.  The first event I wanted to go to was Resistance is futile: making a case for virtual worlds, but the sim was full.  So I decided to go to the Swag Bag Give-Away right after it, just in case it was always going to be this hard to get into an event.  There wasn’t much of a description of the event, so I didn’t know what to expect. When I got there early people were standing around chatting and a greater directed me to where they were.  The were mostly teachers, but there were some grad students too.  They were all really friendly and discussed what sessions they were going to or had been to.  It seems like the social sessions are for people to regroup and discuss how they felt about the whole thing, and of course, be social.  And there was a lot of free stuff at this event, as the name would imply.

There was also live musicians at the event with a dance ball.  At first I didn’t know they were live, but the other people there were happy to explain it to me.  It really shocked me, there were people from all over the US and a few out of the country listening to the same couple singing in Florida.  The part that probably surprised me the most was that there was a sing along part, and a lot of people really did turn their mics on and sing with them.  After the singing ended, I headed over the main building and collected my goods.  There was a lot of free stuff at this event, as the name would imply.

I really wanted to attend the machinima sessions, but I set the alarm in my phone to 8pm instead of 8am. As a result, I missed them, but I did go to the concert at the end.  I was pretty funny actually.  I saw a Michael Jackson avatar perform Thriller and other similar things.  I couldn’t stay long though because Second Life kept crashing.  I guess there were just too many people there. I was hoping to stay for the fire works, so if anyone else did and has some pictures, I would like to see them.

 The first event I went to.  That is a dancing lion and it was awesome.

 The concert area for the last events

I have to keep the graphic settings pretty low on my computer, but this is the Michael Jackson avatar.