CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Sep 11, 2007 11:53am
Last night I gave a tour of NMC regions for a group of educators from Australia, on behalf of a request from Glenda Arrow (aka Glenda McPherson, Central Gippsland Institute of TAFE). An hour goes quick trying to explain a lot of history and topics in chat, and hoping to teleport the group of about 15 to several locations (it was made easy thanks to one of Lyr Lobo's map scripts shared by Corwin Carillon).
Glenda Arrow
We met on NMC Conference ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Sep 11, 2007 11:30am
In the Backlog of Back Blog Department, I forgot to mention a nice sim opening last week for GCCAz, the home of Glendale Community College, home of colleagues at my previous job. They had a celebration on the GCCAz Student Union in Second Life as well as demos at the college's High Tech Center.
Among videos screened at the party:
* NMC's Seriously Engaging An Overview of SL and the New Media Consortium
* Calisto Meets His Maker (created by GCC's own ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Sep 11, 2007 11:10am
Here's a relatively early heads up for the next NMC Campus Teacher's Buzz session, a discussion session led my Aurili Oh, (aka Suzanne Aurilio) of San Diego State University. The topic is PLORK: Adults at play and work: A Collective Reflection.
I had to do a bit of deeper than one click googling to get at the concept of Plork - not the PLOrk Princeton Laptop Orchestra (that that sounds interesting). And on the Urban Dictionary, I was fairly sure it ... more » »