PUFS-What+to+do

Fall 2007

9/28/07 This is a short introduction to let you know what you should be doing this week, and a general outline of how the project will develop.

=__What you must do__=

1) Join the wiki ([|www.worlduniversityexchange.wikispaces.com]). All students have been sent an invitation to join. Check your e-mail accounts and accept the invitation. When you join, you will need to choose a user name and password. This is different from the ones you will use for Second Life.

2) Join the WUE Students group in Second Life. When you are in-world, click on Search. Choose the Groups tab at the top. Type in “WUE Students” and highlight WUE Students in the results column. Open the group page, and click on join. It will cost no money.

3) Find your teammates and begin work on your first assignment. The easiest way to communicate is thru the wiki. Go to the "Teams" page, and find your team. Click on the team number, and it will take you to your team home page. You can leave messages there for the rest of your group and arrange for a meeting time. You can also send IMs (Instant Messages) in SL to each of the avatar names in your group. Arrange a time to meet on your plot of land. Introduce yourselves, and organize how you will do the first assignment.

4) Upload a picture of yourself, and post it on the PUFS Photo page.

5) Write a brief introduction of yourself (one paragraph) and post it to the PUFS blog.

=__Overview__=

The wiki will be very important for this project. It may be difficult to meet on-line with your team, but you can all post to the wiki and read other teammates posts. The wiki will be the center for all communication for the team. This is where you will post your chat logs, or the summaries of your conversations.

All students have been divided into teams, and each team has been given a plot of land to develop. If you click on “Teams”, you will see your team number, the name of the island where your land is, and your plot number. You will also see the other team members. To find that land, click on name of the island. It will bring up a SLur. This is location marker for a place in SL. Open SL, and then click on the SLur in the wiki. It will automatically teleport your avatar to the new location. Once there, go to “WORLD”, click on “Create Landmark Here”. This can later be accessed on the “MAP” tab, under “My Landmarks”.

To communicate using the wiki, go to “Teams”, and click on the word “Team”, in the group you are in. It will take you to a special page just for your team, where you can add content, leave messages, and read what others are doing. (Please note that all of the Japanese avatars have the same family name-Worldue.)

There are 3 islands in this project: Outreach, Film and Present. Each island has plots of land, for each team. Each plot has a building limit of 200 prims. Some plots are near the water, and may be considered nicer. If you want, your group can negotiate with other groups, to gain better land. To do this, you will trade some of your building points to get better land. You should discuss this as a group, including your architectural expert.

Each building project will reflect what your group feels is the ideal living space. Some people may choose security, and build high walls, gates and bars on the windows. Others may choose to join with other groups, in order to increase your size. This project offers a chance to communicate with people in your own group, as well as people in other groups. It is your choice to be either inclusive or exclusive.

In addition to building and creating your community, there will be team and community challenges. Winners will receive prizes, which could include L$, objects, scripts or other things to help you in your work. You should also be prepared for a variety of problems. These could include natural disasters (storms, earthquakes, fires) or social problems (attacks, threats, theft, etc.). These problems will test how your community can cope with challenges (much as in real life).

Overall, your goal will be to create a build for your community and to provide a set of rule (similar to a constitution) that will reflect the foundation of your new society.

Stay tuned to this wiki for more details.