NMC Campus Observer

What a Great Buzz!

CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) : Aug 22, 2006 10:21am

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NMC Campus "Teacher’s Buzz Session" Aug 21, 2006

Last night was our first gathering on campus for the NMC Campus Teacher’s Buzz Session. What a wonderful turnout with at least 24 avatars gathered around the campfire, with visitors from the U.K. (at 2:00 AM! woot to AngryBeth Shortbread for staying up late) and co-facilitator Corwin Carillon from Hong Kong (where yesterday it was tomorrow morning).

Pretty much this was a session of introductions, folks expressing their interests in teacing in Second Life, and a pile of ideas for future discussion topics. You can find on our Buzz Session Wiki:

• full transcript from the chat session
• a first cut attempt at a summary
• some photos

Topics registering the most interest included (someone chime in if I missed something):

• Dealing with frequent software updates (challenges for students, computer labs)
• concepts of game design
• use of audio teachnology in SL
• machinima (creating video in SL) workshop

As a nice closing, we got a great view of the big new issue of Slate Magazine, where Daneille Damone’s article on NMC Campus was front and center.

Story filed under: Teacher's Buzz, Teaching and Learning, What's Happening

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