NMC Campus Observer

NMC 2007 Summer Conference SL Connections

CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) : May 30, 2007 05:38pm

Next week, June 6-9 is the NMC’s 2007 Summer Conference in Indianapolis. For those at the conference, there will be a good number of sessions of interest to those engaged in Second Life, and as best we can, we are aiming to bring a number of these into SL via video, audio, and a few dual sessions.

If you are coming to the conference, we have set up a number of optional times and places where you can meet up with your colleagues. Also, if you take any photos, write any blog posts, or bookmark any web sites, please tag this conference with nmc2007.

We are looking for anyone interested in blogging summaries of sessions and events her on the NMC Campus Observer (thanks Intellagirl for already raising your hand!)- if you are willing and interested in writing or photographing, contact me.

The full details are provided on the NMC Campus Guide wiki at http://sl.nmc.org/wiki/NMC_2007_Summer_Conference where there are some places you can sign up to meet people or help facilitate some of the RL/SL sessions.

In quick summary, the sessions you can experience in either RL or SL include:

June 6

• 6:00-8:30pm EST (3:00-5:30pm PDT/SLT) Opening Reception. Live SL demo from the NMC booth to show voice capability available on the beta grid. To participate, download the latest Second Life Voice Beta client and then go to NMC Campus (128,225,42). You can then “talk” live with people here watching on a big screen.

June 7

• 8:30-9:45am (EST) 5:30-6:45am (PDT/SLT) Opening keynote Fantasy Regnant by Edward Castronova (Indiana University) will be video streamed into NMC Campus at a newly built Red Rocks Amphitheater on Research Park (39,18,45).
  

2:45-4:00pm, (EST) 11:45am-1:00pm (PDT/SLT) Special Feature Session combined with NMC Campus Teachers Buzz Session: Pleasure, Play, Participation and Promise: Socio-emotional Dimensions of Digital Culture which are Transforming the Shape of New Media Literacies by Angela Thomas/Anya Ixchel (University of Sydney) in room IT 252. Live audio stream of presentation and slides shown in world. Meet in world at Teaching 2 (135,124,22). If you are at the conference, you can experience this presentation with the Second Life audience, featured as an NMC Campus Teachers Buzz Session, hosted by Nick Noakes (Corwin Carillon in SL) in room IT 167.

• 10:00-11:00pm (EST) 7:00-9:00pm (PDT/SLT) Recap of Conference via audio chat live from Indianapolis. If you are at the conference join for an informal discussion of the conference so far as we provide a live audio stream into NMC Campus. If you are in Second Life, join us in the Board Room at Teaching 2 (122,85,25)

June 8

• 8:30-9:45am (EST) / 5:30-6:45am (PDT/SLT) Featured Session A View from Second Life’s Trenches: Are you a Pioneer or a Settler? by Cynthia M. Calongne (Lyr Lobo), Colorado Technical University. Live audio stream and audience participation with Rl and SL audiences. Meet in world at Teaching 2 (135,124,22).

June 9

• 8:30-9:45am (EST) / 5:30-6:45am (PDT/SLT). Panel discussion Leveraging the Affordances, Minimizing the Barriers of Virtual Worlds with Heidi Trotta, Seton Hall University; Nick Noakes, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; Cynthia M. Calongne, Colorado Technical University; Hilary Mason, Johnson & Wales University. Live audio stream and audience participation with Rl and SL audiences. Meet in world at Teaching 2 (135,124,22)
• 10:15am-12:00pm (EST) / 7:15-9:00am (PDT/SLT) Closing keynote New Media Means New Choices by Kristina Hooper Woolsey will be video streamed into NMC Campus at a newly built Red Rocks Amphitheater on Research Park (39,18,45)

Activities for those who are present at the conference include (beyond activities like the Museum Tour, the Rock and Roll Jam, IUPUI campus tours, the Five Minutes of Fame sessions…):

• June 6, 8:30 pm. Meet other SL colleagues following the Opening Reception. Convene at a place of mutual agreement for conversation and optional beverage consumption.
• June 8, 7:00-8:00 am Meet SL colleagues for breakfast. Grab food in the lobby, meet in room 204
• June 8, 5:00-7:00pm Meet SL colleagues for dinner. Meet in hotel lobby, pick a restuarant, eat

Again, the full details are spelled out in our wiki.

See you for real or virtually in Indy!

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