CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jan 27, 2008 12:36am
Dr. Teshia Roby (AlanaClaire DeCuir) is inviting you to join her for a student presentations fair in Second Life on Monday, February 28, 1:00 - 2:30 PST. The presentations were created by Cal Poly Pomona student-teachers who are learning to integrate technology into their classroom curricula.
Teachers at various professional stages are enrolled in the course, so there is diversity in the levels of technological and pedagogical savvy within the presentations. This is a learning opportunity for ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jan 25, 2008 03:40pm
We are excited to announce that starting Monday, NMC Campus will be a partner site for tuning into the weekly Metanomics events that bring together many of the thought leaders in virtual worlds.
“Metanomics†refers to the study of the business and policy aspects of the “metaverse†of virtual worlds. Metanomics can focus on issues arising within virtual worlds, such as how developers manage the economy of a game world (like World of Warcraft), or how residents of virtual worlds ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jan 24, 2008 11:38pm
Last Sunday was a private launch for the re-opening of the Kirsti Aho Art Museum on NMC Campus. The Aho Museum aspires to showcase the finest examples of art that can be found in Second Life. The resources of the museum include the museum and the gardens surrounding it on the NMC Campus as well as the satellite museums, performance spaces, and exterior galleries on the island of Ars Simulacra.
The museum is named after Kirsti Aho, ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jan 21, 2008 03:27pm
Thanks to an invite from Fleep Tuque, I and seven other educators got a tour and rich experience with PARSEC-- an installation? an immersive game? an interactive art piece? it is all very hard to define in words. PARSEC is a project created by Dizzy Banjo, Eshi Otawara and Chase Marellan... we thank Eshi greatly for allowing us to interrupt her to give us a tour.
On entering PARSEC (a giant seeming infiinite white dome), each of seven avatars dons a ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jan 21, 2008 02:53pm
Thanks to the 40+ avatars who showed up today to learn about the SaLamnder Project from guest Wainbrave Bernal (see the pre-meeting post for details on this project). Wainbrave provided a detailed overview of the project and what it hopes to achieve.
Wainbrave Bernal discusses the SaLamander Project
For those unable to make it today or looking for information from the meeting, see:
Session chat log in plain text and rich text
photos
Wainbrave's presentation slides (712k PDF)
SaLamander Project wiki
Our audio interview with Wainbrave Bernal ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jan 19, 2008 05:32pm
Coming up Monday, Wainbrave Bernal (aka Jonathan Richter form University of Oregon) is visiting the NMC Campus Teachers Buzz Session to tell us about the SaLamander Project -- an interesting weaving of several technologies designed to have educators tag and catalog the best resources and learning materials in Second Life.
As described by Wainbrave,
The SaLamander Project is an open Second Life education community with a mission to develop a searchable peer-reviewed database of educational builds and tools in Second Life. Using ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jan 17, 2008 11:53pm
Going back to our first days in Second Life, the NMC Campus has been a place dedicated to showcasing some of the best of original SL art, and this continues with an exciting new exhibit located on NMC Campus 9.
This is a 3d immersion installation based on two paintings by Strawberry Holiday called "Certainty" and "Reality." When combined, they're called "On Their Journeys."
Strawberry Holiday, speaking about "On Their Journeys" says:
The beginning represents reality in a lot of ways for ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jan 16, 2008 10:59pm
it's been quite some time since the NMC Symposium on the Evolution of Communication, held way back in early December, 2007. It was such a huge event, its taken us this long to organize all the resources (please activate your avatar's nodding head in agreement animation).
Below we provide some of the highlights, mainly links to the archived video of the sessions. These videos were archived from our set up that provided live video streams to our overflow sims, but required ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jan 16, 2008 04:39pm
Today, on the anniversary of the founding of NMC Virtual Worlds, the New Media Consortium announced new directions for the NMC's special services unit in the coming year, and affirmed the continuation of the work it began a year ago and continued throughout 2007. NMC Virtual Worlds provides a full palette of support to educational institutions wishing to explore, build, or establish a presence in a range of virtual worlds. The program offers all of its services to educational ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jan 16, 2008 10:28am
Things just keep getting more interesting as people are finding ways to connect, mix, real life and virtual worlds. Why spend time in just one? The Augmented Reality Second Life project at Georgia Institute of Technology is doing some fascinating experiments with having things manipulated in Second Life appear live, moving, in real life... including SL avatars.
In this research project, we demonstrate that MMOs also provide a powerful platform for Augmented Reality (AR) applications. We introduce the notion of AR ... more » »
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