NMC Campus Observer

Archive for July 24th, 2007

Avatars, appearance and identity - all a buzz

Corwin Carillon (aka Nick Noakes) : Jul 24, 2007 08:57pm

What's your dress code? Mon 23 Jul saw a vibrant and open discussion with people sharing views on avatars, appearance and identity for teachers in Second Life. Picking up on a recent (and recurring) discussion on the Second Life Educators list (SLED), the discussion was wide ranging covering the varied reasons for choice of avatar types and appearances. Some opted for having a least one alternate avatar to keep professional and personal separate. Whilst others opted for just one, but perhaps dressed ... more » »

A New SL Video Juke Box

CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) : Jul 24, 2007 12:18pm

After dabbling with assembling a collection of YouTube videos related to Second Life and education (based on a playlist), it struck me as limiting to do this only in YouTube, considering the number of other places to find web video. It was done this way on a lark as an experiment. But in other venues, we have been exploring a new tool called Vodpod which allows you to assemble, categorize, tag videos from many different video sites. So here we unveil, ... more » »