Archive for August 21st, 2007
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Aug 21, 2007 05:56pm
This was the last of seven incredible days of the NMC Symposium on Creativity in Second Life. After a full week, I must admit I took a "cat nap" Saturday morning and missed the sessions on "Introduction to Scripting in Second Life", "Improvisation and Second Life", and "Effective Communication Design with Scripted Objects" (the latter two were second offerings).
At 4:00 PM we welcomed back the lovely and articulate Anya Ixchel (aka Angela Thomas, University of Sydney) for another insightful session ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Aug 21, 2007 04:20pm
While we covered the first session (Ted Kahn on Synectics) from Friday as a separate post, this day of the Symposium on Creativity might have been the most full, and this, most challenging to summarize, even now, a few days after the fact.
So there is going to be a long stream of photos here- but also, stay tuned to the longer stream accumulating on our slcreativity flickr tag of shared photos, well over 1000 images as of this post.
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CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Aug 21, 2007 02:50pm
The Friday schedule for the NMC Symposium on Creativity in Second Life opened with a very special presentation by SynapticWizard Karas (aka Ted M. Kahn) of DesignWorlds for Learning, Inc. but also the very first NMC Fellow. Ted brought us a classic theoretial concept of Synectics into the virtual space through this session and his activities.
Synectics, Everywhere and a Virtual Museum of the Future: Educreation in Second Life
This session will give a very brief overview of the history of ... more » »
Corwin Carillon (aka Nick Noakes) :
Aug 21, 2007 07:23am
39 Teachers Buzz participants had a great tour of a student built exhibit courtesy of our guides, instructional designer Ourania Fizgig and student Alan Myhre. They led us through The History of Earth & Life on Earth Exhibit, which was created as part of a non-major undergraduate intro-astrobiology course, Exploring Life in the Universe.
Students in the ASTR202 (spring 2007) class helped to design and build a scale model installation work on the timeline of Earth, 4.6 billion years ago ... more » »
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