III. Current Plans

 

11/14 Plans

 

 

TO DO in Preparation for Remixing Catalhoyuk Day

 

General

* Please select Edit, General, "Share with Group" for all your objects. (All)

* Practice voice chat (all)

 

Event Planning

* Creat dummy accounts (Lizzy?)

* Food for us! (Noah)

 

 

South Area (Reconstructions)

* Create themed rooms for Life Histories, Senses of Place, Scales, and Public Face. Make sure movies are INSIDE rooms (Laurie, Lizzy)

* Add description of latest ambience remix to one of rooms. (Marc)

* Fireplace video (Cassondra)

 

Signage

* Create signs to accompany "exhibits" inside each room in South Area (Laurie, Lizzy)

* Carsamba River (Laurie, Lizzy)

Here is the  sign at the entrance to mound featuring the bell in the middle for the start of the video-walk

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Webcasting

* Post Announcements of Lecture and Video Festival (Noah)

* Create sign: Webcast Studio, [click video icon on lower left of your Second Life client to receive stream]. (Lizzy)

* Practice using Veodia for Video festival and Lecture (Ruth, Colleen)

 

 

Video Festival

* Lizzy collect all videos and introductions from each participant. Written intro and in-word voice chat intro by author (mp3). (Colleen, Lizzy)

* "Now playing" sign for each video.

* Lizzy put all videos together in one file.

* Practice VJing using video streaming and voice chat (Colleen)

 

Turkish Music Mix

* Burcu to provide Lizzy with music selections, introductions (Burcu)

* combine into one long file (Lizzy)

* Test audio live streaming (Noah)

 

Orientation

* Signs are kinda ugly at top of hill. Consider moving west, in between the BACH tent and South excavation?

* Creat gate in NW area. Have bell to ring.

* Make onesign translated in Turkish?

 

Landcape

* make land browner (Daniel)

* make marshlands (Daniel)

*Draw "ring" round 4040 area (Noah)

 

BACH Tent

* Make floor switch between photo of floor and site plan. (Daniel?)

* Feature Ruth's Dido Remix (Noah)

* Add info from Site Plan, Map and People on Remixing Site (Lizzy, Daniel?)

* Video wall BACH Activities (Cassondra, Noah) 

 

Video Walk

* Add notecard and provide clear instructions for using VideoPlayer (Daniel)

* Practice demo of video walk (Ruth)

* Add instructions to sign (Lizzy)

Here is the  sign at the entrance to mound featuring the bell in the middle for the start of the video-walk

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* Create path to BACH tent (Noah) with a fork in it going northwards 2/3 of way up

* Create second video walk (Daniel) (lower priority)

 

Tour

* Michael will add vision stuff to Island

* Practice voice chat on personal head sets (Ruth, Noah, Lizzy, others)

 

Graffiti Cube

* Seed with sample content (Lizzy, Lilly)

* Redesign cube (Laurie)

 

Sandbox

* Make sandbox bigger? (Noah, Lizzy)

 

Museum

* Return floor to marble color (Lizzy?)

* Videos of tools (Cassondra)

 

Scavenger Hunt

* Implementation (Scott)

1.          There are 4 themes: Archaeology, Senses of Place, Ancient Ecosystems, and Life Histories.
2.          Archaeology: The first task is to find a piece of fired clay.  Fired clay (near fire) leads to Goddess Figurine (pic on an object).  Finding the Goddess figurine leads to flake points (pic).   Flake points lead to beads.  After getting beads the hunter finishes the course.
3.          Senses of Place:  The first task is to find the "forked path."  After the forked path (bewteen the mounds) the next space is a place where the dead are buried.  This is within building 3, inside the BACH tent.  The next task is to find a place along the river that would represent the importance of the river Charshamba.  Finally, hunters will be challenged to find an ancient street.  This will be a space between buildings.  End of course.
4.           Ancient Ecosystems: The first task here is to find where the Neolithic people grew their cereal type crops.  (Noah help me place some)  The next would be to find a domesticated animal (the goat).  The next will be a picture of preserved food items, maybe ground stones (in the museum?).  The last task will have to do with frogs, and the goal will be to find a specific frog ribbeting.  (maybe)
5.           Life Histories.  First task sends the scavenger after one of the famous wall paintings.  I will put a wall painting up somewhere in one of the houses.  Next there will be the investigation of a double burial, and how these individuals' lives have been interpreted.  Need two more items here.  Will follow the 'Life Histories' section of the website.

* Signs (Laurie)

 

Video

* Noah will change video options in museum

 

 

Promotion

* Write introduction to using Second Life for curious visitors who are unfamiliar with Second Life. (Noah)

* Send announcements to: SLED Second Life Educator Listserv (Noah), Data Services Blog (Noah), Chronicle (Noah), Second Life Events listing (Noah), Catalhoyuk email list/facebook (Ruth), friends/family(All)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Notes from 11/7 Meeting

 

Noah: Installed Metalab whiteboard for graffiti cube. Implementing video walk. New announcement board using rss feed from okapiisland.pbwiki.com. Created public sandbox area.

 

Daniel: Working on a script that can play local audio, embed streaming audio onto object.  The River is coming. Working on video walk. Moving the museum.

 

Casondra: Film about leopards spots. Ready to help with video. Has thursdays and fridays free.

 

Laurie:  Working on signs. Adding teleporting capabilities. Problem with uploading. Maybe file size too big?

 

Scott: Just completed google earth zoom video to orient people. Have QTVR coordinates. How to import QTVR? Lets try it. Next week, come up with a list of ideas for scavenger hunt and others can help implement. Need to figure out how to do private messages.

 

Ahmed: Still working on Sloodle. Can't display HTML or blog entry in Second Life. Will research Mozilla brower in second life. Has ideas about organizing objects in a museum.

 

Lizzy: Making signs. Different Scales, Public Face, Life Histories at BACH tent.  Put a handful of images and link to website. Notecards for the captions.

 

Marc: Finished up global audio. Have music jukebox, playlist. Working on regional audio.

 

Lily:  Working on grafitti wall.

 

Remixing Catalhoyuk Day Notes:

Ruth and and the Remixing Team will lead guided tours at 10 am and 3 pm

 

12:30 Ruth giving lecture:  "Remixing Catal Höyük, Remediated Places and Second Life"

in Second Life." with support from Daniel, Scott, Lizzy, Noah. Ruth will show PowerPoint and use voice chat with avatar.

 

Need to think of competition for Sandbox.

 

Video Festival from 4pm to 5pm. Need to get Anies video. Colleen will host. Each person (lizzy, ruth, colleen, cassondra, liz will narrate their videos)

 

11/5 Updates (Noah):

 

I created a sandbox area for public to build their own reconstructions. I also found a great tool (metalab interactive whiteboard) for the grafitti wall (or cube). Check it out! You can drag your own content from your own inventory. I also think this tool will be great for featuring collections of content. I put some of stanford's image collections in the ones near  the  South area reconstructions.  When ready, I'll put these inside the reconstructed houses. Feel free to make copies of the white board and use as you see fit.

 

East Mound Features (.jpg)

 

9.26.07 Plans and Agenda

 

9.19.07. We are currently working on the following tasks, write your names in the tasks that would interest you:

Terraforming Island

• Selecting new contour map that countains more than east mound, perhaps the river that runs along its west side, the marshes that lie around, and part of the west mound just on the other side of the river (Daniel, Ruth, Noah, XXX)
• Use Backhoe to create new Island (Daniel, )
• Select animals, foliage for island

 

Video Tour

• Fix iPod from last semester (Daniel, Ruth, Marc)
• Implement new video walks (Ruth, Steve Mills, Marc, Daniel)

 

 

Island Soundscape

• Purchase
• Craft new sounds (Marc, Steve Mills, Ruth)

 

 

Interactive BACH Area

• Make tent slightly bigger
• Using model from Remixing Catalhöyük, Implement Interactive Site Plan (click on Excavate the Site, Close, Site Plan on okapi.berkeley.edu/remixing) inside of tent
• Interviews with Archaeologists (edit ruth interview http://okapi.dreamhosters.com/video/catal/ruth_interview.mov )
• Views of archaeologists at work (use videos from remixing catalhoyuk themed collections
• Your Ideas

 

Webcasting

• implement Quicktime Streaming Server for live events (Noah, )

 

Event Planning

• Webcast Lectures (Ruth,
• Virtual Tours (Ruth
• Virtual Film Festival (Colleen, Ruth)
• Live music, games, etc.

 

Signage (Laurie and Lizzy)

• What info do we need for orientation?
• Research how other places do signage.

 

10.10.07

Lizzy writes:

• Museum should be where strangers teleport/ land.
• There, there should be a map of the island with a key. 'You are here'
• Another sign next to it with a brief history of the site.
• Somewhere near the museum should be a picture of Mellart and a brief history of who he is, as well as a picture of Hodder and team picture. Maybe pictures of famous finds (painting, figurines, etc) with blurb?
• Two smaller signs. Possibly shaped like and arrow! One saying Reconstruction Area and the other saying "BACH Area"
• There should be a path leading to Reconstruction Area and BACh Area. At some some point, a fork perhaps, theses two signs should appear again pointing in respective directions. These signs will give a notecard explaining what each place is. Person can choose, from there, where to go
• Two signs should have a 'teleport back to museum' so person will always have option to go back.
• Free boxe along paths?
• Lizzy will find captions to use.

 

 

 

Museum/Interpretive Center

• We need later museum/interpretive center space. We should research plans for Kuckkoy museum or find new building.
• Access photo database through a flickr mashup? (Scott?)
• Sloodle to support Web/2nd life and classroom integration: http://www.sloodle.com/

 

 

Turkish

• contact UC Berkeley turkish student group and work with them to provide turkish translations, docents (Burcu

 

Audio

*Upload new introductory audio (nondiagetic informational audio by Moglen).

• How will this be implemented into the SL environment? Can it be other than an intro?

*Further compositions.

• Sounds for videowalks.
• Immersive sounds (object oriented environmental sounds).

biophonies

anthrophonies

geophonies

• Selectable soundscape interface concept.

 

Sloodle Integration

• learn more about Sloodle (http://www.sloodle.org/)
• our installation of moodle (http://okapi.dreamhosters.com/moodle) Ask Zed Marseille for access

 

 

Other Ideas

• Share your ideas here

Radio Çatal? A station that visitors could tune into and listen to a long loop of interviews, music, speakers, guided walks etc.

-Scott