NMC Campus Observer

Archive for March 16th, 2008

NMC Campus Teachers Buzz: Museum of Music & Bucky Barkley’s Tools &

CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) : Mar 16, 2008 05:41pm

It's almost Monday soon and time for another great field trip with the NMC Campus Teachers Buzz. Join us at the Museum of Music (MuMu) where Bucky Barkley (no relation!) will demonstrate the use of three fantastic tools he has developed. They are set up for gallery exhibits at MuMu. The tools, WebMon, Slider, and VidMon provide access to web sites, textures and video for libraries, museums, and elsewhere-- and what is really col is that the video screens are not ... more » »

Metanomics With Nick Yee

CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) : Mar 16, 2008 05:26pm

Look for another great Metanomics series live session you can watch on NMC Campus- this week the guest is Nick Yee, a researcher in virtual worlds at the Palo Alto Research Center who has been looking at social interaction and self-representation. The Daedalus Project is an ongoing study of MMORPG players. MMORPGs (an acronym for Massively-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games) are a video game genre that allow thousands of people to interact, compete, and collaborate in an online virtual environment. Over the ... more » »