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Educational possibilities in Second Life
conference
sponsored by
SL'ang Life magazine

As SL'ang Life magazine, it is our great pleasure to invite you to a conference „Educational possibilities in Second Life”.

The aim of the conference is to present the most interesting educational projects in SL to its residents.

We strongly believe in the potential of such ventures. They are an excellent proposition for people open to effective use of their presence in Second Life. Very often they constitute the only way to pursue personal interests or gain new knowledge, due to its easy accessibility.

SL'ang Life magazine strives to actively participate in promoting initiatives leading to the creation of a knowledgeable community in SL.
Thus, we offer space on our island and on pages of our magazine. Please, treat this conference as a ”showcase”, a possibility to present your activity to new public, an opportunity to learn about similar projects from all over the world and a chance to start a cooperation.

Due to a big number of this kind of projects, the conference on SL'ang Life island will be divided into three consecutive weekends starting from April 19. Also an educational display park will function all month. Each project will have a chance to place an information booth on our island (no more than 30 prims). All interested are asked to contact us to receive the right to build objects on the sim (please prepare a place for a new group).

Each project is invited to make a short presentation of its activity (the conference will take place on a text chat, a presentation shouldn’t exceed 30 min).

A transcript of all presentations will be available at SL'ang Life magazine’s website, and a report from the meetings will be printed in our magazine.

We would also like to use this opportunity to inform about a journalist competition for students organised by SL'ang Life magazine.
As SL'ang Life is a magazine focused around Second Life platform, this is what the competition is about. Texts will be assessed in three categories:
- SL as a community platform,
- SL as a new channel of marketing communication,
- perspectives for development of SL as a virtual reality.
The best texts in each category will be published in SL'ang Life magazine, and their authors will be rewarded 250 USD.

Please, send your applications together with the name of the project, name of the speaker and preferred date of presentation.
Conference dates:
April 19
April 26
May 3
Information regarding the presentations will be available on our website and forum (http://www.slanglife.com/forum/)

All questions and applications are to be sent in-world to Uzi Boa and Mallory Beresford or to an e-mail address uzi.boa@slanglife.pl.

If we have missed any interesting initiative, please let us know or inform a person responsible for conference organisation.
Thank you for your help and see you soon.

Kind regards,
SL'ang Life Team

http://www.slanglife.com
http://slanglifemagazine.blogspot.com

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SL’ang Life is a MAGAZINE for every avatar!

---> SL'ang Life is available FOR FREE for all SL Residents. All you have to do is to make a subscription. Then you will receive Sl'ang Life by snail mail every month.

---> You will find here the latest news, information about the most important events in Second Life, interviews with personalities of the month, articles on fashion and travel. You will read opinions on Second Life expressed by people who are not involved with the Platform.

---> We will aim to give the magazine an opinion forming character. We would also like you to contribute to the Sl'ang Life. Thus, we plan to publish interactive stories, whose plot will be modified by the readers.

---> But best of all is the fact that you can actually take SL'ang Life in your hands, hear the rustle of paper, smell the print. A freshly printed issue will be DELIVERED TO YOUR HOME directly form the printing office.

---> We trust that the magazine will live up to your expectations and that you will eagerly look forward to receiving a new issue EVERY MONTH. As designers of the magazine, we have made it our main objective to create a periodical performing a function of a guide for the "Second Life" world.