FIT in Second Life — the Community Grows

In the last week or two I have seen so many FIT faculty and staff in Second Life –

Hildy Gardner (Fashion Design/Art)
Janet Brav (AMC)
Brian Emery (Photography)
Allison Wermager (Photography)
Kurt Wendt (Computer Graphics)
Steven Zucker (Graduate Studies)
Meredith Sharp (IT/TDT)

and I know Robin Sackin has an avatar — bubbles teichmann… maybe bubbles will be joining us soon!

and our very own CIO, Gregg Chottiner.

Brian wants to mount an exhibition of senior BFA Photography student work on the island where we have FIT’s campus (our campus is on Learning 2 — a New Media Consortium island, where we can use the really lovely “common” spaces — a gallery, classroom and meeting space). We’ll have an opening, and hopefully some videos and slide shows up as well. How exciting!

Also, this week we met up in Second Life with several of our TechDay speakers — Mary Ellen Gordon (of MarketTruths), W. James Au and Janine Hawkins.

We meet every week on the FIT campus at 8. If you don’t know where it is, just email me your avatar’s name and when I log in, I’ll teleport you over and make you a member of the FIT/SUNY group. Each week we’ve been visiting different interesting locations (to see art, or go shopping). We also help each other with audio and practice building.

Please email me (beth_harris@fitnyc.edu) if you need more info or some personal assistance!