Heidi Trotta

I was watching the movie Akeelah and the Bee the other day and I was thinking of the quote mentioned in the film,  “Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to […]

I’m especially proud to post our Seton Hall Virtual World Inniatives banner we released to the Media Grid this week to be posted on their website.  Danielle Mirliss and I have been working to establish a “virtual identity and brand” for our group’s projects in this area.  Wanting to go after some grants for new media, we felt we needed to […]

I usually don’t blog about my personal Second Life or any topics relating it, however, I wanted to share this Second Life fashion blog that Danielle Mirliss found that I really love.  Called Second Life Fashion Addict by Jhuzen Ketsugo, it contains outfits that I would die for even in real life, especially if I was a […]

  
In December, myself and two other colleagues, one of which was a faculty member, presented at the Symposium on the Evolution of Communication at the NMC Conference Center in Second Life.  Our presentation, titled “Critical Analysis of Literary Works Using Virtual Worlds“, centered on the exploration of material culture through the use of objects in texts, a pilot […]

Terraforming the Seton Hall Second Life island was not as easy as I thought.  A “how-to” was difficult to find however, here are the links of information available …
http://secondlife.com/app/help/land/landscaping.php
http://secondlife.com/app/help/land/landscaping.php