• None!

• None! Yer outta here!
• Get ready for the finals in your other classes.

• Once more we try to see Luke present his Second Life Sim.
• I found my old Sims on a Cell Phone Paper.

• None. We be done in Second Life! (For real this time!)

• Repurposing Hardware

• Cell Phone Challenge

• Luke presents his Second Life Sim

• None. We be done in Second Life!

• I collect any holiday decorations that you've found to donate!
• Luke presents his Second Life Sim

• Have a good Thanksgiving! See you in SL next week.

• Real Life Sims by
  • Heather
  • Stephen
  • Cliff
• Augmented Reality

• Are you kidding? Next week is Thanksgiving Thursday!

• Did we have any scavenger hunt items to show off? If so, we'll look at them.
• Second Life Sim presentation by Jerilyn

• Holiday decorations that you can transfer to me so I can decorate!

• Software Simulation Show-Off!
  • Get there early and get things installed and working.

• None. Take a breath.

• Second Life presentations from Cliff
• Open House Invitation
• Novint Falcon
• Stiff People's League
• Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds

• Finish up the Software Sim.
• Get to class early on Thurs to get things installed, tested, and running!

• None. Next week we see those software sim packages! Be here early and get things installed!

• Today we look at the things your Halloween costumes.
• Then we have Second Life Sim tours by: Cliff
• And that's it for the day because I know you're working feverishly on your Software Simulation programming.

• Scavenger Hunt: Robots!

• Halloween Magic Trick!
• Real Life Sims by Mike & Josh
• Gather the packets.
  • One set for me to grade.
  • One set for your eventual programmer.
• Subject Matter Experts
• CBT Production Teams

• Software Simulation Production

• Today we look at the things you made with the building tools.
• Then we have Second Life Sim tours by: Ricky
• A possible location of my own...if I find something.

• Scavenger Hunt: Halloween Costume!

• Show off your scavenger hunt items! Wings, I believe!
• Second Life Sim Presentations by Heather & Bobby

• Scavenger Hunt: Make Something!

• Oddware Presentations by Luke and Jesse
• Software Simulations
  • Client Viewpoint
  • Instructional Designer

• Instructional Design Packag

• Show off your scavenger hunt items!
• Second Life Sim Presentations by Heather & Stephen

• Scavenger Hunt: Wings!

• No Homework. Take a rest.

• Meet with Circe.

• No Homework. Oddware presentations on Thursday.

• Complex Systems Modeling

• None. Oddware due next week.

Beijing police will patrol Web virtually

BEIJING (AP) — Police in China's capital said Tuesday they will start patrolling the Web using animated beat officers that pop up on a user's browser and walk, bike or drive across the screen warning them to stay away from illegal Internet content.

Starting Sept. 1, the cartoon alerts will appear every half hour on 13 of China's top portals, including Sohu and Sina, and by the end of the year will appear on all websites registered with Beijing servers, the Beijing Public Security Ministry said in a statement.

China stringently polices the Internet for material and content that the ruling Communist Party finds politically or morally threatening. Despite the controls, nudity, profanity, illegal gambling and pirated music, books and film have proliferated on Chinese Internet servers.

The animated police appeared designed to startle Web surfers and remind them that authorities closely monitor Web activity. However, the statement did not say whether there were plans to boost monitoring further.

The male and female cartoon officers, designed for the ministry by Sohu, will offer a text warning to surfers to abide by the law and tips on Internet security as they move across the screen in a virtual car, motorcycle or on foot, it said.

If Internet users need police help they can click on the cartoon images and will be redirected to the authority's website, it said.

"We will continue to promote new images of the virtual police and update our Internet security tips in an effort to make the image of the virtual police more user friendly and more in tune with how web surfers use the Internet," it said.

China has the world's second-largest population of Internet users, with 137 million people online, and is on track to surpass the United States as the largest online population in two years.

The government routinely blocks surfers from accessing overseas sites and closes down domestic websites deemed obscene or subversive.

(FROM: USATODAY.COM August 27, 2007)