VSTE+in+SL+Meetings

Thunder Insippio presented and facilitated a session on the Web 2.0 tool, Glogster, highlighting the benefits for educators and students. Interactive digital posters created in Glogster were on displayed throughout the historic area on VSTE Island. || **07.22.09 ** || VSTE Island hosted the second week of the Summer Building Institute: On Monday, July 20, at 5:00pm SLT (8:00pm EDT) Mandie Mimulus (Marie Booz RL) demonstrated for 21 participants Brian White’s (Author of //Second Life, A Guide to your Virtual World//) essential collaborative building skills. On Wednesday, July 22, at 5:00pm SLT (8:00pm EDT), pikskate Clip SL, demonstrated how to build a flag and attach a waving flag for 12 participants. ||
 * **Date ** || **VSTE in SL Meetings Held Every Monday Night at 8PM EST (5PM SLT) on VSTE Island ~ Meeting Minutes ** ||
 * ** 11.27.11 ** || ** Though we haven't kept up with this log VSTE has a meeting every Monday at 8 PM with the rare exceptions like legal Monday holidays. Please join us! ** ||
 * **11.15.10** || Our two year anniversary of holding a virtual meeting every Monday night for educators in Second Life!
 * ===**11.08.10**=== || Tour of NOAA's Second Life sim. ||
 * ===**11.01.10**=== || Alfredo organized a VSTE Island Swap Meet. Everyone brought fun transferable inventory items to share with the group. Gestures, textures, clothes, and anything that could be transferred to another avatar was offered to swap. The swap meet had something for everyone. ||
 * ===**10.25.10**=== || Thunder organized a Halloween party with Joaquin Gustav performing live music for us on VSTE Island while everyone judged our spooky houses and danced the night away with good friends. ||
 * ===**10.18.10**=== || Design Star Night - (modeled after HGTV's Design Star) Avatars were given the opportunity to decorate/design a spooky house all from various freebies and their own inventory items. ||
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 * ===**9.13.10**=== || Terraforming Workshop – Cyndyl Enyo facilitated as members visited an open sim to learn how to terraform land. The workshop was led by a friend of Serena Offcourse, Trill Loma, and was differentiated for those totally new to terraforming and those who wished to learn strategies for adding style to terraforming. ||
 * ===**9.06.10**=== || No VSTE in SL group meeting due to the Labor Day holiday. ||
 * ===**8.30.10**=== || Tour of Shamblesguru Voom’s International Schools Island with plenty of freebie tools for educators. ||
 * ===**8.23.10**=== || Games Night ~ Twelve members met on VSTE Island to play games. We played Mahjong, Greedy, Frootcake, and Can't Stop. ||
 * ===**8.16.10**=== || "Summer Fun Night" at VSTE Island branching off to various summer fun venues. Each facilitator highlighted a fun place to visit and included its description in the circulating notecard given out at the start of the meeting. We'll also used a group chat so all members could keep in touch as they travel to various sims. ||
 * ===**8.09.10**=== || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">A sim hopping tour brought in a good crowd for our weekly meeting. Members were given a notecard with descriptions and landmarks to 4 sims selected from the various categories (Arts, Science Fiction, Mystery...) at Cyrus Hush's Expedition Central. They were also given the information for joining the VSTE Ning (vsteonline.ning.com) and SL group. If they took interesting snapshots while touring we asked them to post them to the ning site. ||
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 * ===**1.18.10**=== || Thunder and Jazmemo put on the first VSTE Fashion Show with sixteen models each showing two outfits, one professional and one "fun." Pikskate Clip created a catwalk and Summer Nachtigal was our MC. Mo Hax filmed it and is working on the machinima in three parts. ||
 * ===**1.11.10**=== || Cyrus Hush took us on a tour of Virginia Colleges in SL: JMU and NOVA. He arranged for sim managers to take us on a tour of their respective sims. ||
 * ===**1.4.10**=== || Jazmemo facilitated a VSTE New Year's Social: Winter Fun! We went to a winter sim where we did ballet, rode horses, ice skated, and rode snowmobiles. ||
 * ===**12.14.09**=== || Cyrus Hush facilitated the 1st ever VSTE AVATAR Race! Over L$1300 to be awarded! We raced through Native Lands, four connected sims with authentic native American artifacts and information. ||
 * ===**12.7.09**=== || VSTE members visited Wittsofwanda's marshal arts venue and learned about marshal arts training in SL. ||
 * ===11.30.09=== || Thunder arranged for guest speaker Doggie Jigsaw, sim ower of New Arizona and New Mexico. He talked about the importance of role play in some folks' lives. VSTE members then followed "Jigs" on a tour of his Frontier as Pioneers. This meeting took place during the VSTE Face to Face Conference in Roanoke, themed Pioneering into the Future with Technology" ||
 * ===**11.23.09**=== || Guest Speaker ~ Sebastien Lucero ||
 * ===**11.16.09**=== || The Virginia Trekkers returned to give us an update on their video podcasts and tell us more about how they put their shows together. ||
 * ===**11.9.09**=== || Mandie arranged for Spiff Whitfield to talk with us about Virtual Pioneers. ||
 * ===**11.2.09**=== || Cyndyl arranged for Guest Speaker, Matt Monjan, from Discovery Education ||
 * ===**10.26.09**=== || Cyndyl, Syd, and Pikskate hosted a VSTE Halloween Party in their disco club. Members came in costume or as alternate avatars. ||
 * ===**10.19.09**=== || Mandie facilitated a tour of the Johnson & Wales Library sim hosted by Barbarathelibrarian. ||
 * ===**10.12.09**=== || Mandie taught VSTE members how to work with textures and took us to four locations in Second Life where free textures are readily available. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">10.05.09 ** || Thunder and Alfredo shared two ways to make SL T-shirts. Thunder uses a new blank t-shirt and applies a photo taken in SL. She showed how to position the camera to make the front of your t-shirt have the image you want (be sure that is in the upper left corner of your photo.) Alfredo showed how he creates t-shirts from a template and a graphics program using layers. He recommened Paint.net, a free program for Windows that will do the trick. His You Tube video was a great resource. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**09.28.09** || Trig Inkpen and Thunder held the first VSTE in SL Math Night. We had about 30 participants. Trig shared how he uses the Greedy game with his high school math classes to teach probability and then we played! We had four tables differentiated by Greedy experience: Novice, Practicing, Masters, and Mixed. The winner of each table and a wild card player with a rose under their chair advanced to another round. The winner of the second round, Miss Amethyst H one a Greedy Table and a pendant. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**09.21.09** || Cyrus Hush took us on a tour of Ivy League college sims. We toured Harvard and Princeton. It's impressive to see what these institutions do with the SL platform. There were replicas of buildings on campus, mock courtrooms, and entire avatars you could copy and wear. I guess shopping and choosing hair and shoes isn't the point for Ivy Leaguers! ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**09.14.09** || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">VSTE in SL group meeting was held on Monday, September 14, at 5:00pm SLT (8:00pm EDT). Mandie Mimulus (Marie Booz in RL) shared with 15 participants the new VSTE Island exhibit of the first Africans to arrive in Jamestown in 1619. The event was tied to the essential knowledge that all Virginia students must understand about this period of history. Participants were directed to the Teacher Resource Center on VSTE Island, where educators can find additional resources, lesson plans and an example of a student-created project that focus on the arrival of the first Africans. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**09.07.09** || N<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">o VSTE in SL group meeting due to the Labor Day holiday. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**08.31.09** || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">VSTE in SL group meeting was held on Monday, August 31, at 5:00pm SLT (8:00pm EDT). Jazmemo Zimminy (Lisa Alconcel RL) faciliatated 19 participants in a “back to school” celebration <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**08.24.09** || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The third session of VSTE’s Summer Book Talk was held on Monday, August 24, at 5:00pm SLT (8:00pm EDT). WitchyRichy Witherspoon (Karen Richardson RL) facilitated 14 particpants in the final discussion session of the book //Understanding by Design// by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**08.17.09** || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">There was a VSTE in SL group meeting on Monday, August 17, at 5:00pm SLT (8:00pm EDT). Cyrus Hush (Matt Poole RL) led 19 participants on a tour of the <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Chinese sims, Mao and Kowloon . Cyrus began the evening in VSTE Island Pavilion and then teleported the participants to special skybox to view media centered on the study of Chinese culture before leading the tours of the two Chinese sims. Cyrus had extensive notecards prepared including a communication notecard for group discussion and tour notecard. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**08.11.09** || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">On Tuesday, August 11, at 5:00pm SLT (8:00pm EDT) the VSTE Island Team along with Flying Story (Danny Arkin RL) presented VSTE Island and the virtual Jamestown Settlement at the ISTE’s Speaker Series in the Bandshell on ISTE Island. There were approximately 50 participants in the Bandshell audience and 32 visitors came to VSTE Island for a self-guided tour following the speaker’s series . ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**08.10.09** || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">No VSTE in SL group meeting was held due to the ISTE presentation on August 11, 2009. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**08.03.09** || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">VSTE in SL group meeting was held on Monday, August 3, at 5:00pm SLT (8:00pm EDT). CoolestBean Brunswick SL, facilitated 22 particpants in using SculptyPaint to create sculpted prim objects. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**07.27.09** || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The second session of VSTE’s Summer Book Talk was held on Monday, July 27, at 5:00pm SLT (8:00pm EDT). WitchyRichy Witherspoon (Karen Richardson RL) facilitated 14 participants on a discussion of the book //Understanding by Design// by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**07.20.09**
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 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">07.15.09 ** || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">VSTE Island is hosting a Summer Building Institute on Mondays, July 13 and July 20 and Wednesdays July 15 and July 22. The Wednesday sessions are necessary as our guest builder, pikskate Clip SL, is unavailable on Mondays. The institute kicked off on Monday, July 13, at 5:00pm SLT (8:00pm EDT) with Mandie Mimulus (Marie Booz RL) demonstrating for 18 participants how to create transparent, phantom prim trees. Immediately following Mandie’s lesson, VSTE member, CoolestBean Brunswick SL, led a lesson in using Scratch4SL to create scripted objects. On Wednesday, July 15, at 5:00pm SLT (8:00pm EDT), pikskate Clip SL, demonstrated how to build flags with wind to make the flag wave for 21 participants. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**07.06.09** || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">VSTE in SL group meeting was held on Monday, July 6, at 5:00pm SLT (8:00pm EDT). The VSTE Team hosted a British Invasion event. Jazmemo Zimminy (Lisa Alconcel RL) led a tour of the British Council Isle for 17 participants to solve a Merlin mystery quest. A social with music of the Beatles and fireworks was held on VSTE Island after the tour. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**06.29.09** || VSTE in SL group meeting was held on Monday, June 29, at 5:00pm SLT (8:00pm EDT). As the VSTE Team was attending NECC, three Virginia Beach teachers, Yosemite Wahwah, Harryhausen Steampunk and Gator Beeswing (Sharon Darling, Steve Orr, and Karon Orr RL) facilitated 8 participants on a tour of NASA Space Center and the Star Trek sim. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**06.22.09** || The VSTE Summer Book Talk began on Monday, June 22, at 5:00PM SLT (8:00PM EDT). WitchyRichy Witherspoon (Karen Richardson RL) facilitated 18 participants using the book //Understanding by Design// by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe. Thunder Insippo (Kim Harrison RL) provided a SL YouTube video player to view WitchyRichy’s content used during the meeting and the Likert scale for questions. The group broke into three groups for discussion activity. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**06.15.09** || VSTE in SL group meeting was held on Monday, June 15, at 5:00pm SLT (8:00pm EDT). Mandie facilitated a shelf unit building class highlighting editing linked prims for nine participants; six others observed. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**06.08.09** || VSTE in SL group meeting was held on Monday, June 8, at 5:00pm SLT (8:00pm EDT). The VSTE Team hosted the first annual VSTE in SL Field Day for 27 participants to celebrate the end of the school year. Alfredo Bedrosian (Al Doss RL) supplied bumper cars and watermelon throwers. Mandie Mimulus (Marie Booz RL) set up a challenge course with five events and facilitated a skydiving challenge. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**06.01.09** || VSTE in SL group meeting was held on Monday, June 1, at 5:00pm SLT (8:00pm EDT) ~ Jazmemo Zimminy (Lisa Alconcel RL) took SL photographs in her portrait studio to be used in NECC/VSTE conference nametags and Mandie Mimulus (Marie Booz RL) facilitated 21 participants in a (one prim) frame building class. Several participants framed their portrait photographs in their newly built frames. ||
 * || N<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">o VSTE in SL group meeting was held on Monday, May 25, due to the Memorial Day holiday. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">05.18.09 ** || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">VSTE in SL group was held on Monday, May 18, at 5:00pm SLT (8:00pm EDT) ~ Guest speakers: Virginia Trekkers shared their innovative video podcasts and website [|www.virginiatrekkers.com]. The VSTE Island sim was maxed out at 40 avatars during this presentation. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">05.11.09 ** || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">VSTE in SL hosted a presentation from Henny Zimer, a middle school teacher in Montana, about Quest Atlantis. More than 30 avatars were in attendance. Henny had his QA teacher teammate and his QA mentor from Australia to help answer questions. Seveal people were excited to see how QA works and are very interested in using this educational Virtual World with students during the coming school year. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">05.04.09 ** || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">VSTE in SL celebrated Cinco de Mayo with a tour of Mi Casa and the three Visit Mexico sims. We played some interactive games designed for first year Spanish students, dressed in Myan costumes, rode horses, toured Mexico on the back of a dragonfly and explored historical recreations. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**04.27.09** || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">VSTE in SL held a group meeting on Monday, April 27, at 5:00pm SLT (8:00pm EDT). Mandie Mimulus (Marie Booz RL) facilitated 18 participants in a building activity at the sandbox on VSTE Island. Participants were divided into two groups and each group built an avatar out of prim blocks. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**04.20.09** || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">VSTE in SL group meeting was held on Monday <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">, April 20, at 5:00pm SLT (8:00pm EDT). <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Jazmemo Zimminy (Lisa Alconcel RL) facilitated 20 participants on a tour of three different SL art museums: The Vista Hermosa Art Center - Live the Art in Second Life, The Riverwalk Cliffhouse Arts and Attractions, and Pencil Factory - Angrybeth's Art Studio. Jaz prepared a detailed notecard and arranged for a speaker, <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Esparanza Freese (SL), to meet with us at the Vista Hermosa Art Center. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**04.13.09** || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">VSTE in SL held a group meeting on Monday, April 13, at 5:00pm SLT (8:00pm EDT). Kathy Dryburgh (Kathy Schrock RL) presented to 47 attendees at the Pavilion on VSTE Island. She shared how she uses Second Life for professional development, collaboration, and networking. Thunder Insippo facilitated a question and answer period following the presentation. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**04.06.09** || VSTE in SL held a group meeting on Monday, April 6, at 5:00pm SLT (8:00pm EDT). Alfredo Bedrosian (Al Doss RL) facilitated 18 participants in a discussion about Nings and used a Ning ([]) as part of an interactive SL scavenger hunt. Participants needed to be members of the the Ning and traveled to different sims in Second Life where they collected photographs to post on the Ning to win Linden prizes. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">03.29.09 **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">(Sunday) ** || The VSTE Facilitators hosted the Virtual Pioneers at VSTE Island on Sunday, March 29, at 5:00pm SLT (8:00pm EDT). VSTE facilitators presented VSTE Island and the Jamestown Settlement to 26 participants. The tour began at Virtual Pioneers on Lighthouse Learning Island and continued at VSTE Island. Photos and Alfredo’s video can be seen at [|http://virtualpioneers.ning.com] ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">03.23.09 ** || VSTE in SL held a group meeting on Monday, March 23, at 5:30pm SLT (8:30pm EDT). Alfredo Bedrosian (Al Doss RL) facilitated 12 participants in a discussion by campfire on the shores of the Powhatan Village. At 6:00pm SLT (9:00pm EDT) Alfredo teleported participants to the Vanderbilt CSO Talk Talks on Lighthouse Learning Island where Scottmerrick Oh (SL) facilitated a TED video discussion. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">03.16.09 ** || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> VSTE in SL group meeting was held on Monday, March 16, at 5:00pm SLT (8:00pm EDT). Mandie Mimulus (Marie Booz RL) facilitated 19 participants on a tour of the Dublin in SL sim for St. Patrick’s Day. Mandie prepared a notecard and a VSTE Island pot o’ gold scavenger hunt. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">03.09.09 ** || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">VSTE in SL held a group meeting on Monday, March 9, at 5:00pm SLT (8:00pm EDT). This was our first presentation in the VSTE Island Meeting Pavilion with more than 35 avatars participating. Janene Jewell (Janene Gorham RL) facilitated the first VSTE in SL annual meeting. VSTE board members Karen Richardson and Kay Lera co-presented. The presentation included both Power Point and video and highlighted VSTE’s commitment to promoting technology’s role in education. Janene expertly led a question and answer period at the end of the presentation using local text chat. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**03.02.09** || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">VSTE in SL group meeting was held on Monday, March 2, at 5:00pm SLT (8:00pm EDT) on VSTE Island. Thunder Insippo explained SL profiles to 22 VSTE newcomers—how to use them to connect with others or learn to hide them and be completely private. Participants learned how to take their own snapshot and upload the photo to their inventory and add to their profile. Alfredo Bedrosian (Al Doss RL) and Cyrus Hush (Matt Poole RL) were available to assist participants with taking snapshots with SL camera. Pocahontas Whybrow (Marie Booz RL) was available to give newcomers the $10L to upload these photos. Participants also participated in a Jamestown Settlement treasure hunt. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">02.23.09 ** || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">VSTE in SL held a VSTE Island Grand Opening celebration on Monday, February 23, at 4:30pm SLT (7:30pm EDT). The VSTE facilitators streamed a live concert from the Virginia Beach Convention Center into Second life, held a Jamestown Settlement treasure hunt and an evening social. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">02.16.09 ** || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">VSTE in SL held a group meeting on Monday, February 16, at 5:00pm SLT (8:00pm EDT). We held our first building class! Mandie Mimulus (Marie Booz RL) facilitated 12 participants in creating a notecard, rezzing and texturing a box, and scripting the box to hand out the notecard. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">02.09.09 ** || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">VSTE in SL held a group meeting on Monday, February 9, at 5:00pm SLT (8:00pm EDT). In honor of Lincoln’s birthday, thirteen participants visited Second Life’s Land of Lincoln. Daisyblue Hefferman SL, manager of this sim, presented an in depth overview of this extensive build. Participants were then able to tour the island on their own. An information notecard with VA SOL correlations was provided. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">02.02.09 ** || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">VSTE in SL group held its very first VSTE Island meeting on Monday, February 2, at 5:00pm SLT (8:00pm EDT). There were 32 participants in attendance, all members of VSTE. A notecard was prepared with landmarks to the island’s venues. Team members were available to answer questions and offer assistance. A social was held at the end of the meeting in the Island Community Center. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">01.26.09 ** || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">VSTE in SL group meeting was held on Monday, January 26, at 5:00pm SLT (8:00pm EDT), when we participated in the Second Life Educational Support Faire. There were 21 participants in attendance and they were given the opportunity to visit the Faire or attend one of the live sessions taking place in the Pavilion. This was the last VSTE in SL meeting at the old VSTE World HQ building on Eduisland 3. A small celebration with champagne toasts and fireworks marked the occasion . ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**01.19.09** || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">VSTE in SL group meeting was held on Monday, January 19, at 5:00pm SLT (8:00pm EDT), when we met at VSTE Headquarters on Eduisland. Mandie Mimulus (Marie Booz RL) facilitated 11 participants on a tour of the US Capitol Building in Second Life as it was being prepared for the inaugural events on January 20th. RL teacher resources on presidential inaugurations were provided for participants. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">01.12.09 ** || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">VSTE in SL group meeting was held on Monday, January 12, at 5:00pm SLT (8:00pm EDT), when we met at VSTE Headquarters on Eduisland for a tour of SL resources available at Georgia State University Bookstore. Thunder Insippo facilitated 12 participants who paired-shared their resource finds and participated in a SL Likert Scale survey activity. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">01.05.09 ** || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">VSTE in SL group meeting took place on, Monday, January 5, at 5:00pm SLT (8:00pm EDT). Mandie Mimulus (Marie Booz RL) facilitated 12 participants on a tour of David Rumsey’s Second Life 3D map collection. ||
 * || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">No Meetings Held December 22 and 29, 2008 Due to Winter Holiday Break ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**12.15.08** || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">VSTE SL held its weekly educator group meeting at the VSTE HQ building on Eduisland. Al Bedrosian (Al Doss RL), Thunder Insippo, and Mandie Mimulus (Marie Booz RL) facilitated 11 attendees on a tour of several educational groups to join in Second Life. These groups included: Vassar College-Sistine Chapel, Literature Alive!, Discover Educator Network (DEN), and Virtual Pioneers. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**12.08.08** || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">VSTE SL held its weekly educator group meeting at the VSTE HQ building on Eduisland. Mandie Mimulus (Marie Booz RL) facilitated 11 attendees on a tour of the Great Wall of China sim and provided a tour notecard with SL and RL educator resources aligned with Virginia Standards of Learning. Thunder Insippo offered members tips and tricks for managing notecards in their inventories. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**12.01.08** || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">VSTE SL held its weekly educator group meeting at the VSTE HQ building on Eduisland. Thunder Insippio facilitated 8 attendees on a tour of the Pot Healer Adventure at Numbakulla, an interactive scavenger hunt and great learning experience for all. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**11.24.08** || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">VSTE SL held its weekly educator group meeting at the VSTE HQ building on Eduisland. Marie Booz (Mandie Mimulus SL) facilitated 5 attendees all from VBCPS (Louise Borgnine SL also stopped by prior to the event). Mandie took the group on a tour of a Second Life recreation of the Plymouth Settlement with a replica of the Mayflower ship. She created a scripted notecard with educator resources that included Scholastic’s interactive Mayflower voyage and Plimoth.org (the official Plimoth Plantation website). ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**11.17.08** || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">VSTE SL held its first educator group meeting. Thunder Insippio facilitated 14 attendees at the VSTE HQ building on Eduisland. She also implemented a Google spreadsheet to record the VSTE SL participants attending this meeting. Matt Poole (Cyrus Hush SL) took notes for the meeting. ||