CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Dec 14, 2009 02:02pm
If you are student who has done some creation in Second Life, the University of Southern California Second Life Student Developers Group (SLSDG) has a contest that closes in January 2010-- and any student with a *.edu email address can submit their work. And the prizes are in real $.
The theme of the competition is"Save the World":
Create the one object that will save the world. This object can be organic, mechanical, interactive, large, small, realistic, unearthly, have multiple moving parts, ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Dec 14, 2009 11:42am
Washoe County School District in Reno, Nevada (an NMC member organization) hosted their first e-Learning teacher professional development conference this fall. Volunteer instructors hosted 35 workshops such as designing professional web sites, teachers and Twitter, cell phones as tools, Facebook, getting Jingy with it, flip video, Second Life, podcasts, iTunes, YouTube into the classroom, etc.
The conference, called CHOICES, opened September 29th and closed December 2nd. Classes were online or hybrid and participants designed their own ... more » »
NMC Campus Observer Note... You can watch this Metanomics show live at Outreach (87, 125, 34) on NMC Campus
While discussions in the Architecture Working Group channel are frequently informative, this discussion of personal experiences with the other viewers for Second Life and alternative grids struck several participants as important and useful.
A Google Spreadsheet was created and the URL shared, and within minutes there were a dozen people looking at it with respective cursors leaping about the page and labels ... more » »
NMC Campus Observer Note... You can watch this Metanomics show live at Outreach (87, 125, 34) on NMC Campus
How do non-linear narratives work? Do these story quests make for greater immersion and understanding? How can they be used to help further understanding and a deeper connection with people living with HIV/AIDS?
Host Robert Bloomfield will interview three people who came together to create story quests – non-linear narratives in a virtual environment – that celebrated the lives of those living with ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Dec 7, 2009 10:35pm
On March 29-April 2, 2010, the University of Arkansas is offering a virtual workshop on Extensible Virtual Worlds. While it will take place within Second Life, the workshop is aiming broader to Virtual World platforms.
Today’s virtual worlds are mostly stand alone and not easily extended. This workshop will explore component technologies that can be leveraged to make a set of extensible virtual worlds. These extensible virtual worlds will need to be secure, easy to build, easy to create applications for, ... more » »
NMC Campus Observer Note... You can watch this Metanomics show live at Outreach (87, 125, 34) on NMC Campus
Here are Professor Robert Bloomfield’s prepared remarks for his closing opinion piece for this week’s show:
As I mentioned before today’s interview with Stanford Professor Byron Reeves, today’s episode of Metanomics is dedicated to the Memory of Leslie Jarmon, who was instrumental in engineering the presence of the entire University of Texas system—all 15 campuses—into Second Life.
Leslie passed away just last week. ... more » »
NMC Campus Observer Note... You can watch this Metanomics show live at Outreach (87, 125, 34) on NMC Campus
How great would your job be if you could do it in a videogame? That’s the premise behind Byron Reeves and J. Leighton Read’s‘s new book ‘Total Engagement: Using Games and Virtual Worlds to Change the Way People Work and Businesses Compete‘. Their belief is that jobs will soon borrow heavily from game mechanics, making working environments better through increased communication and ... more » »
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