Archive for August, 2007
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 » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Aug 15, 2007 12:39am
Here's a quick recap of the sessions I saw today at the NMC Symposium on Creativity in Second Life. Only about two days into this week long event, it is apparent that our breakout session presenters have really caught our intended spirit of making the sessions very active, so there is no sitting in rows looking at flat slides!
I missed the first session of the day, The Magician's Cookbook: Scripted Solutions for Non-Programmers from Lyr Lobo (aka Cynthia Calongne, Colorado ... more » »
Corwin Carillon (aka Nick Noakes) :
Aug 14, 2007 10:10pm
Not losing a stride from the fantastic NMC Symposium on Creativity in Second Life, Teachers Buzz kicks off next week with another not to missed session! Join Cosmo Priestman, Ourania Fizgig and ScubaChris Wollongong as they take use 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 ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Aug 13, 2007 10:25pm
It's going to be a challenge to provide comprehensive coverage of this week's Symposium on Creativity given... there's so much going on! Sadly, I am not able to be at all sessions, and we are counting on people at the sessions to be blogging, taking photos, and tagging everything with slcreativity.
Starting off today, Emby Semaphore (aka Michael Berman, Art Center College of Design) ran a session on Taking the Mystery Out of Scripting – A Hands-on Workshop (see below ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Aug 13, 2007 09:00pm
It's been about 12 hours since the first full day of the NMC Symposium on Creativity launched, and what a day its been. Catching up on the activity is going to be a big job, mostly left for "later", but we wanted to make sure to share the video archive of Larry Pixel's (aka Larry Johnson) keynote session on Why Creativity Matters.
Keynote video [46.9 Mb Quicktime]. Also available on Google Video and blip.tv. And see below for the remarks as ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Aug 13, 2007 12:15am
After months of planning, and watching the fabulous builds unfold created by the NMC Virtual Worlds team, it was exciting to see all the activity, enthusiasm for todays opening of the week-long Symposium on Creativity in Second Life.
That's not to say it was perfect (This is Second Life after all, where your world just may crash on you- 5 times) -- right at the opening of the Studio Sessions, no one was able to teleport anywhere, so folks could ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Aug 10, 2007 05:51pm
Today I met up with Ann Enigma, or in real life, Hilary Mason from Johnson and Wales University. We chatted on NMC Campus at Research Park, enjoying the peaceful serenity inside the Biosphere dome. Listen to our audio recorded interview (we talked using the new Voice Chat, which was flawless!).
Interview with Ann Enigma
Ann chatted a bit about her background and her early interest in computers (a self proclaimed and proud "geek"). The we talked about her entry into Second Life ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Aug 7, 2007 03:58pm
For our NMC Campus Teachers Buzz Session, we had an exceptional visit Monday, to Wasp, the home of Australian SL Educators jokay Wollongong and Sean McDunnough, who shared the broad array of resources they ave developed for Australia teachers.
As one participant remarked, they have developed a very visual pleasing and information common look and feel to their materials. And even more so, they have covered their bases in terms of providing acccess to them- in world at Wasp (74,31,86), ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Aug 7, 2007 03:39pm
We had an enthusiastic turnout for Sunday's performance of The Show Must Go On- live vaudeville performed at the theater on NMC Campus at Learning. There was dancing, cyclists, comedy, razzle dazzle, all served up in a flavor of well choreographed action.
Several avatars did quick changes behind the scenes (a little bit of alt-zooming allows you to see how things are prepared before the curtain opens-- cannot do that in areal theater). Our audience was loud in their applause, ... more » »
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