CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jul 18, 2007 08:23am
Videos about Second Life provide a powerful way to communicate the experience to the uninitiated and are great resources to have available for being able to talk about projects or reasons to be in SL. Eve more so, the creation of video within Second Life is an extremely creative form of expression, and luckily, there are many machinima artists out there who are sharing their works.
We've been tracking a number of videos and put together a playlist of just YouTube ... more » »
FlowerBall - An Interactive Art Thingy
Douglas Story - concept, prims, pictures
AldoManutio Abruzzo - soundscape
Desdemona Enfield - scripts
FlowerBall is a very large, very colorful, very musical and very immersive bit of art - the kind of thing that truly is possible only in Second Life. At 120 feet high and wide, it’s huge - your avatar flies up and through five layers inside a gigantic sphere, your interaction with the layers changing the visuals, ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jul 12, 2007 11:49am
Like last year, we will be "reprising" the poster sessions from the 2007 NMC Summer Conference on NMC Campus. They will be available for viewing July 20-27 on the "Green", the open lawn area surrounding the Gonick Amphitheater, and we are inviting as many presenters as we can to be available on Friday, July 20, 1:00-3:00 PM SLT/PDT) so you can talk to them about their projects.
Franklin University's poster presentation for The CPA Review, a session at the 2007 summer ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jul 12, 2007 12:08am
We've been eagerly awaiting the capability of voice communication here on NMC Campus, going back to March when we did some beta tests with an early version on the beta grid. As many know, our typical communication in SL is text based chat/IM, and any audio communication has required use of outside software with honestly un-even results.
The new voice capability is built into the SL client, so you can just talk using your computer's microphone, and you can hear other ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jul 10, 2007 04:24pm
Last Sunday and Monday, a group of graduate students from Pepperdine University’s Online Masters Degree in Education (OMET) coordinated an event and dialogue on the topic of "Choice" in Education, hosted on NMC Campus's Teaching 2 amphitheater.
The Monday night session was slotted as a time for the NMC Campus Teacher's Buzz Session to participate. Regretfully, in RL, this dog was rather sick and missed the event. Fortunately, event organizer Angelique Jano provided a bit of recap:
For the last two nights ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jul 5, 2007 11:15pm
To celebrate their new home on NMC Campus Teaching sim, Monroe College is inviting you to put on your western duds and join them for a whole day of activities Sunday, July 22. In fact, they will include a hay ride tour to their neighbors on this educational rental island.
Look for the events at Teaching (149,186,21) .
According to our message from Bobbie Allen, this is a celebration of Monroe's ongoing work of the Office of Online Learning Internships.
The Monroe ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jul 2, 2007 08:51am
We're just making the preliminary announcements, so for your calendaring pleasure, the NMC will be offering a week long online symposium, completely in Second Life, focused on creativity in this virtual space. This will take place August 12-18 on a new sim at here- the NMC Conference Center (currently under construction).
As the email notice reads, we are readying a call for proposals, which you are sure to read about here at the Observer!
Colleagues,
I am writing today to announce an upcoming ... more » »
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