Case Study: Video of STA Travel's Main Office
Here is a brief tour of STA Travel's Main Office on Second Life. STA Travel hopes its many island features will convince some visitors to do business with STA Travel. What better place to start than this beautiful travel office! Check it out here!
-Blake
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Case Study: Community Spaces on the Main Island
In this video, I talk to you about STA Travel's community spaces, the Dorm and Sandbox areas. It shows a brief tour of these two features of the island intended to increase collaboration.
For the Dorm area, residents can customize their own dorm rooms, invite friends, and keep this area just for them provided by STA Travel.
The Sandbox is a place where residents can practice on their building and texture creativity without it being overcrowded like many other sandboxes in SL.
-Blake
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Case Study: Video of STA Travel's Main Island
In this video, you get a whirlwind tour of some of the community spaces on STA Travel's Main Island. Here you can see the many different areas the designers have created to engage the residents of SL so the STA Travel Main Island will be a common area that they come back often for fun, creativity and sense of community.The destinations on the Main Island include STA Travel Office, Conference Room, French Cafe, Museum of Submissions, Fashion Store and Media Center to entertain everyone on the island for hours!
-Blake
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Case Study: Video of STA Travel's Orientation Island
In this video, I describe STA Travel's Orientation Island. This is the first stop for
STA Travel island visitors who are new to Second Life. You can gain access to this island immediately if you click on the "Join Second Life Now" button on this blog. Here new visitors will get the help they need to design the look of their avatar, how to move around Second Life and any other questions they need answers for. Check out this video!
-Blake
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Case Study: Intro Video in SL at STA Travel's Main Office
Here I am, Blake Stringfellow, in Second Life giving you an introduction to STA Travel and the case study I'm leading. I'll outline the decision process STA Travel went through in deciding whether they would build a presence in Second Life. Also, I'll discuss why STA Travel entered SL and the community it wants to form in this extremely creative and vibrant virtual world. Here is the video explaining this part of the case study.
-Blake
Case Study: The STA Travel Islands
Not only can you enjoy STA Travel island, you can also learn from it! I'm Blake Ives, a professor at the University of Houston and my avatar is Blake Stringfellow. I'm writing a case study about the island to use in classes for students interested in learning about Second Life Commerce.
The case, which will eventually have three sections, follows the development of the island from the original decision to build it, through the design, and then to the first weeks after its opening.
The first part of the case is already available http://homepage.mac.com/bives/STA_Case_A.doc.
Please feel free to read the case, wrestle in class discussion with the decision to go ahead with the build, and then, either on your own or in class, visit the completed island and see, and discuss, the final design. Classes being run in Second Life are welcome to meet on the island too.
Also, be sure to watch the videos I added to the blog. They are very informative and will show you what the STA Travel islands look like.
-Blake
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