We heard via the grapevine that Lyr Lobo aka Dr. Cynthia Calongne is being nominated for the Association of Virtual Worlds' 2010 Person of the Year.
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She works tirelessly in virtual world design and development to further virtual worlds for education. She has designed content for emerging media degrees, and is an extremely active member in the NMC. Her doctoral research focused on building an immersive, ... more » »
Our latest in world interview is with Ruby Snook, a.k.a. Jan Baum who is Program Director in Interdisciplinary Object Design, Metals and Jewelry at Towson University. Over the last few years, Jan has actively used Second Life as a visualization tool for students in her art production classes and has found it an effective teaching tool in the art design process.
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We spoke last week over at NMC Campus to learn more about the projects ... more » »
We recently got word that Aurili Oh (aka Suzanne Aurilio from San Diego State University) recently finished her PhD dissertation on a study of how informal learning happens in Second Life. We thought it would be interesting to talk to her about her research, what she learned, and implications for teaching and learning in virtual worlds.
Interview with Aurili Oh [14 Mb MP3 19:22]
I've been more interested in talking to educators given several recent articles / blog posts suggesting "Second life ... more » »
Through an IM from our pal Down Under, chief Jokaydian-- JoKay Wollongong (aka Jo Kay who is from Wollongong, the luckiest avatar name choice ever!)-- we enjoyed this fantastic video created by education.au's Immersive Learning Unit. What's great is that it includes excellent educational applications in several virtual worlds platforms (Second LIfe, Quest Atlantis and World of Warcraft) but also interviews and real videos of faculty and students engaged in the activities.
And w00t- if you look closely, you will identify ... more » »
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 » »
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 » »
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 » »
If only perhaps were under a virtual rock, you may have missed the big announcement a few weeks back about the University of Texas statewide project in Second Life- a centrally funded/supported initiative that involves all campuses in the system.
Back on the Real Life Grid, we are hosting a free Connect@NMC webinar with Project Director Bluewave Ogee (aka Leslie Jarmon) to learn more about this important project and how things have progressed in the first months.
This will take place Tuesday, ... more » »
This week brings the NMC's 14th online conference-- the 2009 Symposium for the Future, taking place October 27-29.
Since 2007, we have hosted these symposia at the Conference Center on NMC Campus in Second Life, but as part of our continual process of re-inventing the format, we are hosting this in a new similar, but different environment we call Hakone, which is the Second Life server running on our own server behind a firewall.
While our symposia take place in a virtual ... more » »
The weekly Metanomics series kicks off its 3rd season with an extra special show today, a live discussion from the Engage Expo in San Jose featuring Linden Lab executives Philip Rosedale and Tom Hale who will be joined from their live location there with the Metanomics Main Stage in Second Life with the Metanomics team Harper Beresford and JeanieSing Trilling.
This takes place at 4:00 PM PT today (check local time) with several options for ways you can participate:
Join us on ... more » »
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