Hi to all participants, here is a map to assist you. You'll find the TD building on the second big yellow map. The TD Building is close to Park Street. We are looking forward to the day, and to meeting you all.

Mandy

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Agenda

VicRoads Virtual Worlds Laboratory July 1st, 2010

Location

Swinburne School of Business, Hawthorn

TD Building

Date Thursday July 1st, 2010

0900

Registration tea/coffee – TD 1 (Foyer)

0930

TD Building, TD121 (Level1)

Opening address: Megan Bird (Acting Director of Corporate Communication)

to discuss Vic roads/innovation/social media

1000

TD207 (Level2)

Mandy Salomon (Swinburne/Smart Services CRC)

1. Introducing Virtual Worlds

2. How might Vic Roads use virtual worlds for collaboration and to create new/extend

services.

1115

Morning Tea

1130

Move into Labs.

Dale Linegar runs orientation including registration, virtual orientation, avatar

creation, tour, interaction

1200

Orientation in Virtual World with facilitators Dale,

Craig and Mandy

1230

Lunch Rm TD229

1300

Participants 'hands-on' in Second Life (SL). Mandy, Dale and Craig are facilitators

1415

Chris Moore, 'Chris Silverblade', CIO City of Edmonton, Canada

Key Note 'Fulfillment and Freedom' Presented in Second Life.

Following this, Chris will escort us on a guided tour of Virtual Edmonton, in Second Life.

1500

Afternoon tea and plenary:

Discussion / Ideas to pursue/Evaluation of the Day

1600

Free time in SL

1630

Finish

Objects required

Chris required a presentation board which would run one of his Prezi presentations.

This was created using the web on prim feature, simply a case of adding the URL into the appropriate field, scaling it so we are zoomed in on the presentation(not the whole web page) and it's ready for clickin'.

One issue with this was that when I checked it a week after I had originally made it, the prezi website format had changed slightly so the presenter was out of alignment. This needs to be checked again before the presentation.

We also needed a few gifts, both for Chris and the attendees. These were purchased from xstreet marketplace for a few dollars.

The cars will have custom license plates, which were made using Vicroads 'Vplate' website.

One issue with putting the plates on the cars was that most were already using the maximum amount of prims per vehicle. After struggling to make a single prim plate fit nicely on one car(they are at different heights and sl isn't accurate enough to skew the prim), I just removed the rear vision mirrors.