NMC Campus Observer

On The Cover of … MIT?

CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) : Mar 21, 2007 03:52pm

Borrowing a riff from the old Dr Hook song:

But the thrill we’ve never see
Is the thrill that’ll get you when you get your picture
On the cover of web site of MIT

What a thrill it was to get a message from our MIT colleagues, letting us know a piece of NMC Campus was on the front of their web site today (they have a grand tradition of regular updates to the front page):

The picture is on the new Teaching sim, and was one where I was setting up a screen for us by the Global Kids event held there today. Hmmm, I don’t recall inserting an MIT image into the screen, must be some PhotoShop action going on… but we’re proud to have a piece of NMC Campus be the greeting for MIT web site visitors.

The cover links to a great story on MIT Second Life Student Design Competition:

The goal of this project is to design and create a student created space within Second Life that represents the MIT campus. These architectures will be represented by clusters of pods. The pods will be modular, replicable, and easily customizable, such that any MIT student can join Second Life and with little foreknowledge create and add their own pod to a cluster. It is not necessary for the architecture to resemble the visual appearance of actual MIT structures. What will be important will the manner in which the pods are created, and how they interact and connect with each other.

Each team will be faced with two tasks in this, namely:

1. To submit a written proposal detailing how the pods would be created, describing their properties, and demonstrating how they would fit together

2. To actually create an instance of the proposed pod within Second Life, as described by the design scheme in part 1. Teams may also optionally create a cluster structure.

At the end of the competition submissions will be judged, and the winning team will receive a $500 prize!

And it sounds like those are 500 real dollars, not the Linden variety,

Thanks for putting us on the cover!

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