NMC Campus Calendar : Dec 22, 2008 03:36pm
These exhibits open at 3:30 p.m. slt on Sunday December the 28th. At 3:30 we will congregate at the sim of Ars Simulacra and tour the exhibit created by Glyph Graves.  Glyph’s pieces are generally kinetic, sometimes reactive pieces of virtual art and prim manipulation. Light and color permeates each piece in such a way that [...] more... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) : Dec 10, 2008 09:56pm
We can file this in the "self horn tootiing" department, but what the heck? This is our blog after all! Thanks to the keen eye of Professor Beliveau (aka Ed Lamoreaux), we found that the NMC 2008 Educators in Second Life Survey has been mentioned in New World Notes in a story on If Second Life Educators Aren't Talking In SL, Who Is?: The story mostly hinges on what is observed as a relative low reported use of voice chat by educators, ... more » »
NMC Campus Calendar : Dec 6, 2008 12:29pm
The Virtual Ability Research Group will be hosting a presentation by Dr. Tom Boellstorff, the author of “Coming of Age in Second Life.†Tom is associate professor of anthropology at the University of California Irvine, and has done extensive research in SL culture. He will be speaking on his research and the presentation of self [...] more... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) : Dec 6, 2008 11:16am
If you have no idea who Doug Engelbart is, drop your mouse, your keyboard interface, your desktop windowing system, your local area networks, and fly to WikiPedia to read about the Mother of All Demos which took place 40 years ago Monday. You can watch the Mother of All Demos video at the Babbage Amphitheater at NMC Conference Center. This demo foreshadowed most features we take for granted in our modern computing. Engelbart's contributions were more than hardware and software, and he ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) : Dec 6, 2008 10:48am
Yes, we took out our virtual clipboard back in May 2008 to conduct a followup to our first survey in 2007 of Educators in Second Life. We appreciate the great response this year, with nearly 360 educators completing the survey, an increase of 170% from 2007 Agaqin, we provide the survey results for free under creative commons licensing, along with a summary of comparison between the 2007 and 2008 surveys: 2008 NMC Educators in Second Life Survey Summary 2008 NMC Educators in Second ... more » »
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