Archive for August, 2007
Corwin Carillon (aka Nick Noakes) :
Aug 29, 2007 10:22pm
Next NMC Buzz Meeting Tue 4 Sep 9am SLT/PDT at NOAA with Hackshaven Harford
YOUR TIME ZONE: http://timeanddate.com/s/gn2
DIRECT LINK: secondlife://Meteora/177/161/27
SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Meteora/177/161/27
Soar through a hurricane on the wing of a research aircraft, rise gently through the atmosphere atop a weather balloon, or search for a hidden underwater cave on a side trip from a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA http://www.noaa.gov/) submersible. These and other virtual adventures are attracting large numbers of visitors to one of the first government-sponsored, Earth-science virtual ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Aug 28, 2007 10:17am
We are pleased to see an increase in the number of events happening on the NMC Educational Communities, the sub-leased sims that are being used by our growing list of clients.
Running through September 7 over on Outreach, Woosong University located in Daejeon, South Korea, is running an Asia Photo Exhibit as a way of introducing themselves to the NMC community.
The exhibit includes professional shots taken in twelve different countries: Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Aug 28, 2007 08:36am
It's been more than a week since the end of the NMC Symposium on Creativity on Second Life, yet we continue to find thing to share! As noted, from the Friday highlights, we ended that day with 3 performances of DanCoyote Antonelli's ZeroG SkyDancers, one of the most unique and demonstratively creative art forms in Second Life (learn more about DC's concepts of hyperformalism...)
During the show, like many of you, I was taking lots of snapshots (see 1000+ flickr photos ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Aug 27, 2007 03:42pm
I'm here in Chicago,after SLCC 2007 ended, waiting at O'Hare to get home.... and struggling to find the correct balance of words to try and describe the experience here. To be blunt, the highlight of SLCC was the opportunity to have that magical meeting in RL of people you have gotten to know in SL- it happened so many times I lost count. But... going from our "normal" SL experiences of being able to go anywhere, to fly, to instantly ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Aug 26, 2007 10:24pm
As the closing keynote for the Education Track at SLCC 2007, NMC CEO Larry Johnson presented an expanded version of his talk at the NMC Symposium on Creativity with his self-admitted optimistic view of "What Creativity Matters".
Via reports from in-world respondents, the audio stream was working (whew!), but we did manage to grab a recording -- see below (note that the house audio volume was very low). Thanks to our SL colleagues who shared the chat transcript from the folks ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Aug 25, 2007 10:04pm
Sarah Robbins, ever effervescent Intellagirl, revved up the energy at SLCC 207 with her session on a A Futurist’s View of Second Life Education. She presenter her own matrix framework for looking at the attributes of virtual worlds and plotted were we are at... and encouraged educators to help drive where it will go.
Sadly, with hotel internet connectivity issues plaguing the conference, the live audio stream into Second Life did not make it. We understood that as pluck in world ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Aug 23, 2007 11:46am
Another Cooper Coliesum Mosaic
Image in flickr uploaded by NMC Second Life.
Nearing the end of our documenting of the NMC Symposium on Creativity in Second Life, we made a few mosaic images comprised of al the ones tagged in flickr from the event.
A few more are at:
Original image on flickr
Original image on flickr
Original image on flickr
This mosaic is made of flickr images from the slcreativity public tag set- photos taken from the Aug 12-18 2007 NMC Symposium on Creativity in ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Aug 23, 2007 11:04am
Just in time for this weekend's Second Life Community Convention, the proceedings (papers) for the sessions in the Education Track have just been made available. Kudos to Jeremy Kemp and Daniel Livingstone for what must have been some monumental editing.
Weighing in at 188 pages, this is one perhaps to read electronically, or at least, save a real tree and print a few select articles. Choosing "select" may be the hard part!
As noted in the introduction:
If by any chance you’ve seen ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Aug 22, 2007 04:03pm
Are you missing out on being in Chicago this weekend for the 2007 Second Life Community Convention? Have no fear, as many are working hard to bring you the events in world the SLCC Education Track.
NMC Virtual Worlds is the lead sponsor for the track- and you will find the latest schedule at Simteach. In world, you will find the posters available on InfoIsland (152,121,33) and the live sessions at the Muriel Cooper Coliseum on ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Aug 22, 2007 03:29pm
As a special event for the 2007 Second Life Community Convention, we are pleased to bring back to NMC Campus, an encore presentation of The Show Must Go On-- live vaudeville performed in world.
You can catch the show on Saturday, August 24, 2007, join us at 6:30 PM SLT/PDT (check local time). This show will take place at the theater on Learning (81, 63, 33)! if you have never visited NMC Campus before, you will need to first join ... more » »
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