Archive for November, 2007
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Nov 29, 2007 04:50pm
Fifteen students from Case Western Reserve University will present their digital stories on Friday, November 30th and Tuesday, December 4th in Second Life on the ClevelandPlus Island. These projects represent a semester-long effort in writing, recording, creating and producing personal digital stories.
Come to ClevelandPlus to see the digital stories
The presentations are the culminating experience of a writing intensive seminar entitled “Digital Storytelling: Creating Meaning with Sight, Sound & Language”. Students will be in Second Life alongside their digital stories ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Nov 29, 2007 02:56pm
Next week marks another NMC Online Symposium that will take place entirely in Second Life. Following on the success of our August Symposium on Creativity in Second Life, December 3-5, 2007 will be the time for the Symposium on the Evolution of Communication.
NMC Symposium on the Evolution of Communication will explore the premise that technology has not only mediated communication in countless ways, but that the very ways we communicate—and even the ways we talk and think about communication—are changing ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Nov 27, 2007 01:15pm
You are invited this Friday to participate in a live event hosted by Wayne State University, with the entire agenda being streamed via live video into Second Life to NMC Campus. Join us on Teaching 2 for the Virtual Citizenship + New Technologies > Symposium.
The symposium is a joint effort of Wayne State's Center for the Study of Citizenship, its Office for Teaching and Learning, and its Honors Program, and the DeRoy Lecture series to study the intersection between new ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Nov 27, 2007 09:15am
The University of Nebraska at Omaha School of Communication will host a Second Life forum on the topic of immigration in the state of Nebraska. As the presidential election year nears, we will follow-up a campus By The People discussion that was held in October 2007 with this unique opportunity to participate via Second Life.
In collaboration with Nebraska Educational Telecommunications and the University of Nebraska Public Policy Center, UNO hosted a By The People deliberation on the topic of ... more » »
Corwin Carillon (aka Nick Noakes) :
Nov 19, 2007 09:34pm
Next Teachers Buzz 4pm PST/SLT Mon 26 Nov - Discussion: Millennial students and SL
Location: Boracay http://tinyurl.com/yqj55o
Your timezone: http://timeanddate.com/s/kga
Join us on Mon 26 Nov at 4pm PST with Jatt Writer (aka Jan Morrison, Washoe County School District, Reno, Nevada State and Federal Programs Dept. Project Director) on the topic of milliennial students and SL.
As teachers in SL are we optimizing the learning journey of our Millennial students? What relationship do the Millennial Generation's skills and attributes have to education on ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Nov 14, 2007 12:32pm
Thanks to a blog post from Nancy White, we've just come across a fabulous thought piece on Second Life by David Sibbet, who lives in SL as Sunseed Bardeen. His retrospective is an important written work (it is a 40 page illustrated PDF) that finally adds some signal to all the noise we see in mainstream media coverage of Second Life.
If you are not familiar with David's work, start now! As founder of the The Grove Consultants International, he brings ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Nov 14, 2007 09:19am
Just popping up yesterday on the web video circuits, bouncing around by email notices, are references to another beautiful machinima by Robbie Dingo, The Mask. From opening credits:
War-paint. Camouflage. Concealment. Act of self-expression or of belonging to a group. Representation, reflection, or pretense? For protection sometimes; actually often. A curtain, a screen, a veil behind which to hide. A shield, disguise or figment. Often fanciful though - ones persona, like war-paint. Masks and avatars. Behind each, a person, with hopes ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Nov 10, 2007 04:47pm
Our next NMC Campus Teachers Buzz Session goes on the road, as we pay a visit to GCCAz, the Second Life home of Glendale Community College (GCC) (RL in Phoenix, Arizona). Come to this session to learn more about use of Second Life at a Community College and the team effort GCC used to make it all happen.
This tour and discussion time is being organized for us by Calisto Encinal and colleagues at GCC, with a title of "GCCAz Island-Glendale ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Nov 1, 2007 02:01pm
We had a fantastic turnout for Monday's NMC Teachers Buzz Session hosted at the British Gothic Literature Classroom. We owe a big thanks to Desideria Stockton and Eloise Pasteur for making this an interactive and fun experience and also to all of the groovy colleagues who showed up in their best Second Life costumes (there is still something ironic about an avatar wearing a costume).
The crowd lingers at the entrance. "Go inside and explore!" urges Eloise.
I must admit with some ... more » »
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