NMC Campus Observer

Learn About the Education Grid

CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) : Jan 10, 2008 04:03pm

We had an excellent session this morning over at the Babbage Amphitheater on NMC Conference Center- MediaGridAaron Oh presented on how grid computing applies to virtual worlds, and the work the Immersive Education project is doing to provide connections and shared access to multiple virtual worlds.

We had 54 attendees, including ones from the U.K., Belgium, Spain, and all over the US.

Today’s event was a pre-cursor to the Boston Digital Media Summit taking place January 12-13, 2007 which will include presentations, demos, and some big announcements, including that Second Life, Croquet, and Wonderland all have passed the requirements established by the Media Grid to be part of this common framework.

This weekend’s summit is expected to attract at least 150 attendees, and MediaGridAaron assured us there would be a lot of documenting of the event– The local PBS station WGBH is going to be providing video online soon after the summit.

For more information, see:

• The Education Grid slide set
• Four videos from the December 2007 Immersive Education Day at Harvard are viewable on the NMC Campus Conference Center
  • Video 1 is at the Babbage Amphitheater NMC Conference Center (210, 25, 51)
  • Video 2 is at Turing Hall NMC Conference Center (164, 219, 31)
  • Video 3 is at Rosedale Hall NMC Conference Center (31, 152, 29)
  • Video 4 is at Schroeder-Kroner Hall NMC Conference Center (41, 61, 31)

  But can also be viewed directly from our media server:

  • http://media.nmc.org/2008/01/harvard-immersive-ed-1.mov
  • http://media.nmc.org/2008/01/harvard-immersive-ed-2.mov
  • http://media.nmc.org/2008/01/harvard-immersive-ed-3.mov
  • http://media.nmc.org/2008/01/harvard-immersive-ed-4.mov
• Chat log from today’s session: digital-media-presummit.txt
• Audio from today’s session

We are eager to see the next steps in the Education Grid project.

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