Archive for August 16th, 2007
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Aug 16, 2007 08:56pm
While Wednesday was a less fully scheduled day, that's over, so for Thursday it was another jam packed day here at the NMC Symposium on Creativity.
First up at 9:00 AM, Buhbuhcuh Fairchild from Alt-Zoom Studios presented an Intro to Machinima - a repeat of his session earlier in the week. This dog was napping, for those who are interested, we did score a chat log transcript of the first session. As a special, neat thing to share, we used ... more » »
Larry Pixel (aka Larry Johnson) :
Aug 16, 2007 06:19pm
Jeff Young made a provocative post today in the the Wired Campus blog of the Chronicle of Higher Education. He asked, Colleges Are Building in Second Life, but Is Anyone Visiting?
Jeff’s article makes some accurate points about Second Life — and some inaccurate ones. The New Media Consortium has been exploring all of the various virtual worlds platforms that are available, including Second Life, for a couple of years now, and I could not resist weighing in with ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Aug 16, 2007 10:46am
As a special, fun event, yesterday evening we had a social activity held at a lofty 600 meters above NMC Campus, a new NMC Faculty Club designed by Stella Costello. We were fortunate to have live music performed for us by Chronic Skronski.
And to add to the atmosphere, we made use of Lyr Lobo's Dance Machine to smoothly choreograph the avatar audience (this is the same device she has demonstrated twice in her sessions on Dancin' with Wolves: Lyr Lobo's ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Aug 16, 2007 10:35am
The Wednesday schedule for the NMC Symposium on Creativity in Second Life was deliberately made more open, mostly to allow for possible downtimes for SL updates (and there was one in the morning), but also to give folks a breathing break! It's been an exciting schedule, and maybe a bit over the top for those needing to get some Rl balance.
But the NMC Conference Center had some action, people were over in the Studio areas tinkering on projects, etc. By ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Aug 16, 2007 01:24am
We have an exciting announcement shared with us today by Thinkerer Melville (aka Selby Evans, Texas Christian University) on the Thinkerer Challenge-- see below for more information, but we also took the opportunity to record a short audio interview with Thinkerer.
Thinkerer Challenge
Second Life's "Thinkerer Challenge" Awards to Foster
Tools from the Metaverse That Benefit Real Life
August 15, 2007 (Thinkerers Quest, Second Life) - Thinkerer Studios - a network of residents in the virtual online world of Second Life - today ... more » »
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