Archive for December, 2007
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Dec 21, 2007 01:36pm
If you were an educator, wouldn’t you dream of taking your students on exciting field trips but the location is across the country, or even across the ocean? How about a holodeck in a virtual world where, with the click of a mouse, you can be in New York, Chicago, or visiting Chateau Villandry on the Loire river?
Second Life Virtual Reality Room- exploring the forest
Thanks to the partnership between the New Media Consortium, the Info Island Archipelago, the Commonwealth Islands ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Dec 16, 2007 10:31pm
With so many blogs to write in, photos to post, and places to be in Second Life, we humbly aplogize for not sharing a video from way back in.. August 2007. As you ought to have memorized, this was the NMC's first every online conference hosted completely in Second Life- the NMC Symposium on Creativity in SL.
While we have a good pile of tagged media and stories on the main NMC web site, we goofed and completely forgot to ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Dec 11, 2007 04:47pm
You are invited to attend a student poster exhibition hosted by Professor Michael Connors (RuArt Semaphore) and students in Art 356, Digital Print Production Techniques, University of Wisconsin-Madison. The posters are already in place, but plan to show up in avatar person December 18th, 1:00 – 3:00 pm PST (check for local time).
The posters are in one of the studios of the NMC Performing Arts Center (previously known as "Learning"), NMC Arts (143,97,25). Follow the signs to
exhibition.
The exhibition is part ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Dec 10, 2007 04:02pm
This keynote presentation by Howard Rheingold was delivered live into Second Life to an audience of 90+ attendees of the NMC Symposium on the Evolution of Communication.
The presentation will span from the time of speech and collective defense and collective food-gathering among primate ancestors on the African savannah; to the emergence of writing on clay tablets as empire-cities began to grow out of agricultural settlements; to the invention of the alphabet and the restriction of alphabetic knowledge to elites ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Dec 10, 2007 02:20pm
Yes, we are aiming to get out our January event notifications early, as we know those of you in the real world have to deal with the challenges of holiday time traffic, shopping, cooking... all of those tasks which are much easier here in the virtual world!
But we have a great event lined up for early January. Lisa Dawley has arranged for students in her EDTECH 597: Teaching & Learning in Second Life class (Boise State University, EDTECH Island) ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Dec 10, 2007 02:08pm
Over the weekend, there was an important in person event at Harvard University the Immersive Education Day.
We were scrambling last week to try and see if we could bring live video into NMC Campus form this event, but a stream was not available. But better than that, the organizers are offering to bring a recap and followup discussion of this event to us, scheduled now for Thursday, January 10, 2008 at 10:00am PST. Before, and during the event, we ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Dec 10, 2007 01:35pm
We apologize for late notice... I know I have an excuse somewhere in my inventory, just where did I file that?
Anyhow, we have bee excited to hear on the Second Life Educators Listserv (SLED) about NESIM OR, the virtual nursing sim currently being used by students at Tacoma Community College.
John Miller (JS Vavoom), a nursing instructor from Tacoma Community College, and Cathy Walker (padlurowncanoe Dibou), an educational technology director from St. Vincent de Paul, will present NESIM OR at ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Dec 6, 2007 12:13pm
On the Printing Press...
Originally uploaded by NMC Second Life.
Among the many higwater marks of the NMC Symposium on Evolution of Communication was our live keynote from Howard Rheingold (same name in First and Second Lives!) on "Co-Evolution".
He took us on a thrilling ride through the very first forms of written communication through the impact of the printing press (impact on literacy, expansion of science), that the Protestant Reformation was "the first virtual community", right on through to the technologies ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Dec 6, 2007 12:05pm
Lyr Demos Gestures
Originally uploaded by NMC Second Life.
We here at the NMC had a fabulous time hosting over the last 3 days the Symposium on Evolution of Communication over at the NMC Conference Center. There was so much for this dog to do that we were unable to keep up with posting updates... so this is to say, they are in the works.
The breakout sessions were superb, with highly participatory ones by Lyr Lobo, aka Cynthia Calongne, is to ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Dec 3, 2007 11:29pm
The Symposium on the Evolution of Communication opened today at the NMC Conference Center sim- we have over 170 people registered for this completely online conference held in Second Life.
Tomorrow starts the full days of the conference sessions (see the schedule). Today was devoted to orienting new SL users, or those new to our sim, where we did all we could to help people enable their voice chat. Troubleshooting a sound card issue on a PC you cannot see or ... more » »
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