Sign of the Kite

By and For the Kitely Community

Sign of the Kite is a website by and for residents
of the Kitely community of virtual worlds.

Another fun-filled prim building event!

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Congratulations to Jade Serenity for her first place win at this month's Prim Building Event. First place prize this month was 2,000KC.   Valerious Strongborn won the second place prize of 1,000KC. The theme this month was "things you would find where people dance."  Jade built an adorable little soda shop with ice cream, drinks, a dance floor and a juke box.  Valerious … [Read more...]

Four Winds Victorian Shops and Homes come to Kitely Market

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Koshari Mahana has opened a new store at the Kitely Market featuring some of her well known classic victorian homes and shops, familiary to many from Second Life. Koshari's buildings are beautifully detailed and are set for export to the hypergrid.  Welcome, Koshari and Four Winds! https://www.kitely.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=3229&hilit=four+winds   … [Read more...]

SOTK Newsletter 26 Feb 16

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Welcome to the fifth Sign of the Kite (SOTK) newsletter of 2016. Remember SOTK is the shortform newsletter that keeps you up to speed with all things Kitely and OpenSim. It is written BY residents FOR residents and is neither  sponsored nor endorsed by Kitely.   Got news of your world or group, an event, a recruitment drive, a newsworthy shop, product or promotion? Drop a … [Read more...]

SOTK Newsletter 12 Feb 16

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Welcome  to the fourth Sign of the Kite (SOTK) newsletter of 2016. Remember SOTK  is the shortform newsletter that keeps you up to speed with all things  Kitely and OpenSim. It is written BY residents FOR residents and is  neither sponsored nor endorsed by Kitely.   Got  news of your world or group, an event, a recruitment drive, a  newsworthy shop, product or promotion? Drop … [Read more...]

Looking for almost “freebies” on Kitely Market?

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The HyperFind search tool can help. Simply go to bit.ly/hyperfind and enter “10 KC” (include the quotes) to get a listing of stores and items that include that search term. Note that 10 KC is the minimum price on the Market and the closest it gets to freebies. http://bit.ly/hyperfind … [Read more...]

(Nearly) Freebie of the week: Land Flattener (Gypsy Paz)

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Terraforming inworld is good fun but sometimes you just want to restore an area to its pristine state and this simple tool allows you to do that. Simply add the script to a flat prim, move the prim to the position and height required, touch the prim to turn it on (shown in hovertext) and the land at that point is rapidly raised (or lowered) and flattened. The script is both … [Read more...]

Engineering Active Learning in 3D Virtual Worlds

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By Dr. Michael Vallance Department of Media Architecture, Future University Hakodate, Japan. To advance education in the 21st century, experts in neuroscience argue for more ‘active learning’ through experience. A practical implementation for such active, experiential and, we propose, multi-disciplinary learning is for students to consider, analyze, solve and make personal … [Read more...]