CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jan 17, 2007 12:41am
On Monday January 22, at 12:00 PM PST, a few of us from NMC Campus (myself, Larry Pixel, and Heidi Teecee) will be doing a RL presentation at the EDUCAUSE/ELI conference in Atlanta. We're aiming to start with a demo of Second Life, and are looking for some people willing to show up in world, perhaps wave hello, say/chat a few things, and ideally, be a sort of back channel for the session.
The blurb for the presentation is:
The Next ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jan 15, 2007 08:52pm
Just announced today is the NMC Virtual Worlds initiative, what was once a single island grows into a larger NMC Campus, and that too will grow into something like an "Educational Archipelago" in Second Life:
Today, the New Media Consortium announced the launch of NMC Virtual Worlds, a services unit under the NMC umbrella that will provide a full palette of support to educational institutions wishing to explore, build, or establish a presence in a range of virtual worlds. The program ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jan 12, 2007 11:29am
We're prepping for a presentation at the EDUCAUSE ELi conference. Second Life is the topic, but also turns out a useful tool for brainstorming.
Heidi and I are practicing a RL presentation where I will roleplay a faculty member interested in SL and she a ID support staff. We will use the chat history to edit out our lines.posted by CDB Barkley on NMC Campus using a blogHUD : [blogHUD permalink] more » »
Corwin Carillon (aka Nick Noakes) :
Jan 11, 2007 10:47pm
Dr. Bryan Carter has been using Second Life in his Composition II courses for several semesters now and has some ideas on what works well for his students and what he changed based on feedback and observations of his classes.
His classroom is located on the Island of Glidden, maintained by Aline Click from Northern Illinois University. She and her team have constructed a series of spaces where faculty from the University of Central Missouri and Northern Illinois can conduct ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jan 11, 2007 08:47pm
NMC Campus is Accreting Land Originally uploaded by NMC Second Life
Not only is our campus growing, but a whole slate of neighbors will be adjoining is this year.
If you've dropped into the NMC Campus Area recently, you may have noticed this checkerboard graphic posted. The NMC Campus we've grown to appreciate this year is completely in the central square.
Surrounding it the other colored squares represent land purchased a few months ago for the campus expansion, including a new Life Sciences ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jan 8, 2007 10:14am
What a great turnout we had today (40 avatars from across the US, as well as from France, Germany, the U.K.) for our visit to the Otis College gallery.
A great crowd gathers for NMC Teachers Buzz- a field trip to EduIsland to visit the Otis College Gallery.posted by CDB Barkley on Eduisland using a blogHUD : [blogHUD permalink]
Otis College of Art and Design is a professional art and design college. Located in Los Angeles, Otis began in ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jan 7, 2007 06:31pm
The first NMC Teacher's Buzz session for 2007 is happening tomorrow, Jan 8, at 9:00 AM PST -- we are meeting at Otis College's Gallery on EduIsland (see meeting details posted last month). Check your local time via the World Time Clock and find your way there via http://tinyurl.com/wh7eu .
Thanks to host SueMaeLA Escape for hosting; we'll meet up at the Otis College Gallery, and can peek around other nearby builds on EduIsland. We're looking for your ideas for activities ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jan 4, 2007 05:36pm
My dog eyed view into the crystal ball for 2007 suggests a good chance of more interesting web to SL applications, and tools for teachers to use media to and from what have been rather separate areas. Today, I briefly visited a very interesting collaborative tool, and went away wishing I could really draw.
Wow, this is an interesting gadget! Cubist Scaroborough has created a shared whiteboard. It launches a shockwave web site in a browser where you draw, ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jan 3, 2007 10:48am
I am not a Powerpoint user nor do I condone abuse by bullet slides, but since it is so frequently requested, I am looking at some different tools that might make it easier to bring content into SL other than the tedious uploading of images. Web tools should make it fairly easy to read content into SL from outside.
This is a fairly rough example, but does show how a directory of images can in theory, be displayed sequentially on a ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jan 2, 2007 12:43pm
Given that we recently had a change in the last digit of our time clocks (a sly way of saying, "Happy New Year"), we thought it worth sharing how we deal with events and time zones in Second Life. The ability to meet anyone from any RL location, means that timing is critical.
In this tip, we'll review the "proper" notation for times in Second Life, and provide some tools you can use to set up easily clickable time zone converters, ... more » »
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