NMC Campus Observer

Archive for December 2nd, 2009

In Memory of Leslie Jarmon: Connecting the Dots

Metanomics : Dec 2, 2009 01:03pm

NMC Campus Observer Note... You can watch this Metanomics show live at Outreach (87, 125, 34) on NMC Campus Here are Professor Robert Bloomfieldâ€™s prepared remarks for his closing opinion piece for this weekâ€™s show: As I mentioned before todayâ€™s interview with Stanford Professor Byron Reeves, todayâ€™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 systemâ€”all 15 campusesâ€”into Second Life. Leslie passed away just last week. ... more » »

Total Engagement – Gaming the Workplace

Metanomics : Dec 2, 2009 10:28am

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 » »