CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
May 22, 2008 03:36pm
The Center for Intellectual Property 8th Annual Intellectual Property Symposium takes place May 38-30 in Adlelphi Maryland. But you do not have to be in Maryland; you can also attend and participate in this conference in Second Life, an event we are hosting on the NMC Conference Center.
The theme is "Monopoly: Playing the Innovation Game".
Join the Center for Intellectual Property for its annual symposium exploring the relationship between the U.S. copyright monopoly, technological innovation and higher education institutions.
Although the ... more » »
The Center for Intellectual Property 8th Annual Intellectual Property Symposium takes place May 38-30 in Adlelphi Maryland. But you do not have to be in Maryland; you can also attend and participate in this conference in Second Life, an event we are hosting on the NMC Conference Center.
The theme is “Monopoly: Playing the Innovation Game”.
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Larry Pixel (aka Larry Johnson) :
May 15, 2008 11:30pm
The New Media Consortium (NMC) announced today the call for proposals for the 2008-09 NMC Virtual Learning Prize, a $100,000 competitive program of awards intended to create a collection of innovative open-source learning experiences that make use of the unique attributes of a virtual learning environment. (See the press release.)
As many as 20 NMC Virtual Learning Prizes will be awarded in 2008. Each of the US$5,000 awards will provide a cash incentive paid to the awardee of ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
May 15, 2008 09:54pm
A stunning new Second Life art show will be opening this Saturday on NMC Campus. "Kiss the Sky" is the definitive exhibition of Hyperformalism in the world of Second Life®, and is a brand new collection of Second Life art curated by DC Spensley (aka DanCoyote Antonelli).
Virtual worlds are a place for discovering new territories and exploring meaning outside the context of the material world. Even in virtual worlds there is an avant garde, a native artform spawned from ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
May 15, 2008 08:46pm
Look for two events coming up tied to the International Day for Sharing Life Stories, which is Friday, May 16, 2008. During the day, you can be in a Second Life story circle! Any group in SL can get self-organized and participate.
In each story circle, each teller will prompt the next teller the American Indian way, by handing him/her a talking stick.
Organize a group! Make sure at least one member has the talking stick, which anyone can ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
May 12, 2008 03:44pm
One of the more surreal aspects of Second Life is having a vivid voice chat conversation with a character where their mouth never moves. For years, avatars at There.com have had lip sync or at least, mouth movement, to audio.
Well, my Second Life talking friends, you can have that too with the Second Life Lipsync Viewer. This is a set of files you download and replace in your original Second Life application (see the bottom of the docs page and ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
May 11, 2008 06:26pm
Come on over to the Babbage Amphitheater this Wednesday, May 14, as we have a live video screening of the videos created by students from University of Pennsylvania's 2008 Mashup Contest. Join me and my co-host Ninmah Ash, along with Anu Vella from UPenn, as we show all of this year's student mashup video entries, and hopefully have on hand a few of the students who created the videos so they can share their thoughts behind the movies.
At the ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
May 6, 2008 01:37pm
This Friday May 9, Global Kids is hosting a live event on NMC Campus at Teaching. The new Joan Ganz Cooney Center will be streaming their inaugural, invite-only symposium on “Logging into the Playground: How Digital Media are Shaping Children’s Learning.â€
As children everywhere tap into the new digital playground through gaming, mobile devices and the Internet, educators, researchers, policymakers and high-tech industry leaders are joining forces to examine how these latest technologies are shaping the education of today's children. Galvanizing ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
May 5, 2008 06:00pm
In May of 2007, the NMC conducted a survey of educators in Second Life, and learned much about the habits, interests, goals from the more than 200 responses to this first survey. These results are available for free under Creative Commons licenses.
But given the continued expansion of educational places, events, and over all activity in Second Life, we thought it would be useful to redo the survey again 2008, so maybe we can see what changed (or not). So ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
May 5, 2008 05:08pm
On Friday April 25, NMC CEO Larry Johnson (or as we know him in Second Life, Larry Pixel) was a guest interviewee for the Metanomics series, the weekly live show that takes place in, and is broadcast live from Second Life.
As part of an event at Clever Zebra's vBusiness Expo, in this interview, Metanomics host Robert Bloomfield asked Larry about the NMC's Virtual worlds programs and then discussed more on Larry's recent experience testifying before the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications ... more » »
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