Map

A map of the city of Leiden has been placed at the EduDeck-floor. The map is 35 x 35 meters wide. At one of the corners of the map you can get (take a copy of) a landmark. Place the landmark at an important spot on the map. Touch the landmark and add a line of text so other viewers can see why you think the landmark is important to you. Your name will be automatically added to the text.
The map has also been placed in a large version (210 x 210 m) at the experimental Open Sïm SurfGrid.

Leiden at Open Sim

Slideshow

At the first Floor of the Main Building (and at the Wharf) you can find a slide show presentation about Within Ten Years.
The slide show has been scripted in a way to show pictures without rez-delay. Soon the script will be available for educators and innovators.

Out of beta stage

The Library Rack about Twitter at the Wharf is out of the beta stage yet. Soon there will be new Racks added, like Blogs, Lifestreams, Videoclips, Edutools and so on. When you have any ideas or wishes for Rack-themes, please let us know.

Sensor at Co-Creation-Library

The Co-Creation-Libray racks now determine if you are close enough to add an entry via chat. When you are out of the 20m chat range, you will be noticed to stand closer or to shout the messages.

Co-creation Library

Last week lots of work has been done to create a "co-creation-library". The Within Ten Years Library is situated at the Wharf. It has the form of a tree with apple-racks hanging at it, and surrounding it. Every rack will get its own information-theme.

Tomorrow a beta-version of the first rack will be operational: the TWITTER Rack. At this rack you can add your own favorite twitter accounts of which you think they are important for educators and/or students to follow. When a rack is full (16 entries per rack) and you like to add a new entry at the same rack, the last one (the 16th) will be removed.

To make a rack even more dynamic, you can promote an entry and so giving it a higher rank. But you cant promote at the same rack consecutively.

News Headlines

For all (new) visitors Within Ten Years has a new service. At the landingpoint you can find the latest news about new tools and examples and where to find it at the island. Of course you can browse through older news items.

Interactive Roadmap

Several trends, developments and actions in the future will change our society, and therefore education. A roadmap helps to get insights of future changes, and supports discussion about future education.
Within Ten Years offers an interactive roadmap with which you can share your visions about the future. You can find the interactive roadmap at the second floor of the Main Building. At the moment more than ten statements about the future has been added.
It is visually designed by The Creative Impulse.

Profession of the Future

Think of the future and imagine new professions. Which future profession you, your child or grandchild, will have? Probably a profession that doesn't exist nowadays. Share your idea about future professions at Within Ten Years. You can find the application to share it at the first floor of the Main Building.

Based on the same scripting and database technology we placed a guestbook at the Main Building. Add your personal note about Within Ten Years!.

HUD 1.30

A new version of the HUD is available at the main building. The new HUD shows the teleport locations of the main sectors of Within Ten Years in the main menu. In this way you can teleport faster to the six sectors. The button "Teleport" has been changed into "All Places", so you can still teleport to all separate locations of the island. "My Teleport" has been changed to "My Places".

Retail Display

At the sector The Stack, platform 1, there has been added a Marketing Communication lesson example. Students have to build a Retail Display... but they have to do it in a very special way. Take a look at the information boards about this example to discover this special touch of learning and communication.

Scenario Role Play

An example of Scenario Role Play has been published and designed. You can find it at the Innovate Sector, Arena 3.
With the Scenario Role Play one can have one or more role plays in different futures and/or circumstances. The scenarios that are used for this way of innovation development are the same as those which are used at the Four Futures Contest (Adventure, Budget, Comfort and Durable). The scenarios are developed on human behaviour so you can use them for every future or innovation creativity you like.

My Teleport

The HUD has been updated with new functionality. From now on you can add your own favorite places to teleport to into the HUD. Go to the Main Building of Within Ten Years and get your free copy. You will also get a notecard with it. Edit the notecard with your own teleport locations and drag & drop the notecard onto the HUD. That's all. Click the HUD and choose My Teleport to select one of your favorite places. In case it doesnt work at once, click the HUD, select Tools and Reset.

Library

At the Wharf of Within Ten Years there has been built a Library. But... Within Ten Years would not be Within Ten Years if it wouldn't be a very innovative Library.
At the Library you can't find cupboard full of books. Instead of this, Within Ten Years has chosen for an approach that fits in the whole concept. The Library has been shaped like a "Tree of Knowledge". You will not find any book, but apples. Apples of knowledge. Racks of apples hang in the tree. Climb the apple boxes to walk around the tree.
It will take a couple of days to tweak the latest visuals and scripts. And a lot more time to fill the apples with information, so help us with this.

PictureStory

Write you own story with exactly five pictures and five short texts. That's what you can do with the new educational and innovation tool at Within Ten Years. Make a story of an innovation or an educational subject, add your text in a historical or future perspective.
The PictureStory can be found at the second floor of the Main Building.

Why and how should we collaborate?

Co-Compass, the collaboration game for innovation workshops is ready for usage. Only a little visual work on four buttons has to be done. Then it will be transferred to Arena 1 of the Innovate Sector of Within Ten Years.

Co-Compass

First steps are made in developing a new tool: Co-Compass. It supports employees in how to make steps in collaboration. Starting with the reasons why their organizations (or departments) they work their way upto the actions they should do to collaborate.
The rules of the tool and the visuals (thank you Half Short) are already done. The "only" thing to be done is the scripting :-)

Organizations

The Innovation Dialogue Game has been copied and changed into an Organization Dialogue Game. The way you play it, is the same as the Innovation Dialogue, but now the players take the role of an organization in stead of an innovation.

You can find the Organization Dialogue at Arena2 in the Innovate sector.

Claim

Now you can claim an exhibit room at the museum, located at the Wharf. You can exhibit your own educational and/or innovation concepts for free for one month. There are four exhibit rooms to claim: red room, blue room, yellow room and green room.

Ready!

Within Ten Years is ready to be used. After exactly one month of hard work (almost day and night) the Education and Innovation Center at Second Life is there. A special thanks to designer Half Short is more than at its place.
Within Ten Years consists of six sectors:
* Main Building: Education & Innovation Games and a Meet & Greet floor.
* Educate: Open Air Theatre for virtual classes.
* Innovate: Five arenas for workshops.
* Stack: Nine platforms for examples of working methods you can use in Education and Innovation.
* Visions: Four Futures Contest (with several contributions already), and information about Trends.
* Wharf: Sandbox and Museum with four exhibit rooms, for Educational concepts.

Exhibit

The Sandbox and Exhibit are on their way. Apart from the main building, and the four large parts of Within Ten Years (Educate, Innovate, Stack and Visions) there will be a separate Sandbox and Exhibit for members to build and show their own visualizations. The Exhibit will consist of four exhibit rooms. Every room will get their own special spots to show their effort of new concepts in Education and Innovation. Those special spots are supplied with an intelligent socle application. Touching a spot will provide the exhibitant with a menu to choose a socle with or without a presentation frame.