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Virtual Graduation, 4th July ’11

Virtual graduation in Second Life will take place: 3pm (BST), Monday 4 July at Venue @Vue: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Vue/209/35/28/

All are welcome in Second Life! Follow on twitter as well – #edslgrad

The virtual graduation event will be an opportunity to watch the ceremony together live in Second Life, to support all avatar graduands (we expect 5 graduands this year), and to celebrate the graduation with other students and some of the programme team.

If you would like to attend then please do let Fiona Littleton (fiona.littleton@ed.ac.uk) know. Please include your avatar name in the email confirmation as well.

Please do prepare in advance. A new release of Second Life may need to be downloaded. Quick time needs to be up to date. And you may want time to choose your graduation outfit as well! Contact Fiona if you need advice on outfits or if you need Lindens!

Detailed information about Virtual Graduation is available online at:
https://www.wiki.ed.ac.uk/display/VueWiki/Virtual+Graduation.

I hope you will join us.

Fiona

Virtual Graduation – Join Us! :-)

Hello All,

The MSc team would like to invite you and your friends to the MSc in eLearning’s Virtual Graduation tomorrow, Thursday 25th, 15.00 GMT. The virtual graduation is held in Second Life with parallel live stream from McEwan Hall, Edinburgh. We use text chat to communicate. Instant Message Frank Lassard if you have any issues.

Location – Venue @Vue (just northeast of Holyrood Park).

Please make sure your QuickTime is up to date so you can watch the streamed event from McEwan Hall. All details regards updating Quick Time, playing media in Second Life, gesturing (applauding), chatting, taking pictures are on the Vue Wiki.

Hope to see you all there. Frank is dusting off his UoE tartan at the moment and building the virtual bar. Looking forward to it.

The Twitter Hashtag to follow/post to will be #edslgrad

Fiona

PS. If interested, screen shots from Past Virtual graduations are available here.