Archive for August, 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 » »
Poid Mahovlich :
Aug 20, 2007 06:43am
Let me please introduce you to Ub - a French Artist of considerable talents and who has a charm about him that was intriguing. Ub is exhibiting at the aho August 24th - 26th - The Launch party is Sunday 26th August at 2pm SLT all are as ever, very welcome to attend.
Looking forward to seeing his work and an open invite to all to come & see it !
> In 5 words how would you describe your work?
experimentation, learning, ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Aug 18, 2007 06:53pm
After an unbelievable 8 day stretch of events, the NMC Symposium on Creativity in Second Life ended today following a morning and afternoon of more sessions on scripting, improvisation techniques, avatars... We had great closing panel session on "Creativity and Education in SL" (despite our challenges with audio, the show went on).
Ths Symposium closed with remarks by Larry Pixel (aka Larry Johnson) highlighting the profound experience we all had this week, especially because of the creative spirit of not just ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Aug 17, 2007 06:53pm
We are so excited to share the work of one of the participants at this week's NMC Symposium on Creativity on Second Life. Calisto Encinal (aka James Abraham, Glendale Community College) participated in the Machinima Studio Session, where he created Calisto Meets His Maker, a creative look at not just a virtual world, but.... well, I don't want to give any of it away.
Just watch!
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As Calisto notes in his blog:
I kicked around ideas for a couple of days, ... more » »
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 » »
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