CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jun 30, 2006 04:16pm
Our campus techs have been busy building some new tools here at the NMC Campus Observer. You may or may not know this, but the NMC Campus is not something anyone in Second Life can find by wandering around-- it is a "private" island. When first opened, it was set up so Campus Administrators had to manually add individuals to Second Life Groups that permitted them to find the campus.
After some intense committee meetings (I think they were conducted floating ... more » »
Ninmah Ash (aka Rachel Smith) :
Jun 29, 2006 11:56am
If you missed the popular poster session at this year's Summer Conference -- or if you'd like a second look -- we have good news! The posters have been set up in the Huntley Ballroom on NMC Campus and are available for you to view now. As a special treat, there will be an interactive session with the poster authors themselves on Wednesday, July 12. Please join us!
Date: Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Time: 1:30-2:30 SL Time (Pacific time)
To get a 2D ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jun 27, 2006 08:38am
We will aim to prevent all references to things "staying in Vegas" but felt it worth sharing this YouTube clip showing some of the construction of a Second Life version of Las Vegas:
Now many of us might feel that RL Vegas has a sufficient level of avatars roaming the strip, so it might be curious to see what a SL version of this environment is like. Much care has seemingly been put into the details of the architecture. And ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jun 27, 2006 08:26am
With our recent opening of the virtual doors to NMC Campus, we hope to expand our series of Studio NMC interviews with folks that come on campus. IN these interviews, we use external audio technology, in this case Skype, to have a casual conversation as we visit some spot on the NMC Campus.
Yesterday we met up with Corwin Carillon, an admitted Second Life "newbie":
and spent some some time just chatting about Second Life, the barrier for entry, potential for future ... more » »
Larry Pixel (aka Larry Johnson) :
Jun 26, 2006 02:57pm
This week, after many months of planning, design, building, and testing, we opened NMC Campus to the greater NMC community. Those of you who attended the summer conference were treated to a special session with the builders of this remarkable space, and now all of our testing and tweaking is done! It is ready for all of us to use! Â
The virtual 3-D interactive laboratory is available to NMC member institutions and their faculty, who may use the resource freely as ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jun 21, 2006 09:44am
Off Campus, next week is full of interesting activities as Second Life celebrates its third birthday. There will be events taking place such as discussions, performances, and many more between June 21-25, 2006:
See the tentative schedule listed over at New World Notes and the latest are a vailable within Second Life. Lots to do all over the place, a great way to experience the varied kinds of things people are doing in this environment. more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jun 14, 2006 11:08pm
Leave the Fish Alone!
While the NMC Campus has many traditional places to meet (a boardroom, classrooms, library, etc), there are other more curious places to hold discussions.
Here, on June 14, 2006, we hosted a group of visiting graduate students who belong to a newloy formed RL EdD/PhD Students in SL group, the Second Life Grad Student Colony. Most of them are people interested in teaching/studying gaming and virtual worlds.
A few things we learned is that we need ot ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jun 12, 2006 08:24pm
During the Friday night live session from the NMC Summer Conference in and into the NMC Campus, our guests from Electric Sheep Company opened with a newly produced fine minute video NMC Campus: Seriously Engaging. This piece nicely provides an overview of Second Life, how people are building a new way of real work and interaction there, and concluding with an overview of the NMC Campus.
It has a lovely narration and impressive visuals, don't you agree? This will be a ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jun 12, 2006 08:14pm
At the Friday night session at the NMC 2006 Summer Conference, we were fortunate enough to have as guests on our real world, Giff Constable and Sara Van Gorden of the Electric Sheep Company, part of the creative team that built the NMC Campus.
We were able to bring this session in live to the NMC Second Campus as a video stream displayed on the big screen of the Gonick Amphitheater:
From Dream to Virtual Reality
Our session started with a newly produced ... more » »
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