About Corwin Carillon (aka Nick Noakes):
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contact: nick.noakes@ust.hk
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Feb 6, 2008 03:30am in department: Resources & Information& Teacher's Buzz& Teaching and Learning
On Monday Feb 4 at the Teachers Buzz on the NMC Labs sim, we were treated to a fantastic selection of useful gadgets for learning and teaching in Second Life.
Willow Shenlin got us off to a great start by sharing her bilingual dictionary modified from an SL Glossary. This is keyword searchable by typing in to chat and it also provides a link to an mp3 file so you can hear the word being spoken! The one she ... more » »
Nov 19, 2007 09:34pm in department: Campus Headlines& Teacher's Buzz& Teaching and Learning
Next Teachers Buzz 4pm PST/SLT Mon 26 Nov - Discussion: Millennial students and SL
Location: Boracay http://tinyurl.com/yqj55o
Your timezone: http://timeanddate.com/s/kga
Join us on Mon 26 Nov at 4pm PST with Jatt Writer (aka Jan Morrison, Washoe County School District, Reno, Nevada State and Federal Programs Dept. Project Director) on the topic of milliennial students and SL.
As teachers in SL are we optimizing the learning journey of our Millennial students? What relationship do the Millennial Generation's skills and attributes have to education on ... more » »
Sep 5, 2007 03:20am in department: Campus Headlines& People, Places, Things& Teacher's Buzz& Teaching and Learning
On Tue Sep 4, Hackshaven Harford gave a great tour of some of the new features of the NOAA sims in Second Life. Starting from the original Meteora sim, and after a brief intro to Hackshaven's NOAA and Maya Realities work we were treated to a tour of some the new exhibits and a great demo of the Maya Realities avatar heat map. We watched as large translucent, colored boxes (none of your wood variety here!) appeared. Different colors representing ... more » »
Aug 29, 2007 10:22pm in department: Teacher's Buzz& Teaching and Learning& What's Happening
Next NMC Buzz Meeting Tue 4 Sep 9am SLT/PDT at NOAA with Hackshaven Harford
YOUR TIME ZONE: http://timeanddate.com/s/gn2
DIRECT LINK: secondlife://Meteora/177/161/27
SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Meteora/177/161/27
Soar through a hurricane on the wing of a research aircraft, rise gently through the atmosphere atop a weather balloon, or search for a hidden underwater cave on a side trip from a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA http://www.noaa.gov/) submersible. These and other virtual adventures are attracting large numbers of visitors to one of the first government-sponsored, Earth-science virtual ... more » »
Aug 21, 2007 07:23am in department: Teacher's Buzz& Teaching and Learning
39 Teachers Buzz participants had a great tour of a student built exhibit courtesy of our guides, instructional designer Ourania Fizgig and student Alan Myhre. They led us through The History of Earth & Life on Earth Exhibit, which was created as part of a non-major undergraduate intro-astrobiology course, Exploring Life in the Universe.
Students in the ASTR202 (spring 2007) class helped to design and build a scale model installation work on the timeline of Earth, 4.6 billion years ago ... more » »
Aug 14, 2007 10:10pm in department: Campus Headlines& Teacher's Buzz& Teaching and Learning
Not losing a stride from the fantastic NMC Symposium on Creativity in Second Life, Teachers Buzz kicks off next week with another not to missed session! Join Cosmo Priestman, Ourania Fizgig and ScubaChris Wollongong as they take use through The History of Earth & Life on Earth Exhibit which was created as part of a non-major undergraduate intro-astrobiology course, Exploring Life in the Universe.Students in the ASTR202 (spring 2007) class helped to design and build a scale model installation work ... more » »
Aug 3, 2007 12:23am in department: Teacher's Buzz& Teaching and Learning
Make a date in your SL diaries for next Monday at 7am PST (check you date and time here, when we'll meet up with jokay Wollongong and Sean McDunnough for a tour of their Virtual Meeting Space at Wasp: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Wasp/74/31/86/ or the direct link secondlife://Wasp/74/31/86/.
Jo and Sean will provide an overview of their recent projects, including newbies' resources, support materials they are developing to assist teachers entering Second Life, and a resource on Educational Uses of Second Life.
The tour will ... more » »
Jul 24, 2007 08:57pm in department: Teacher's Buzz& Teaching and Learning
What's your dress code?
Mon 23 Jul saw a vibrant and open discussion with people sharing views on avatars, appearance and identity for teachers in Second Life.
Picking up on a recent (and recurring) discussion on the Second Life Educators list (SLED), the discussion was wide ranging covering the varied reasons for choice of avatar types and appearances. Some opted for having a least one alternate avatar to keep professional and personal separate. Whilst others opted for just one, but perhaps dressed ... more » »
May 2, 2007 02:24am in department: Teacher's Buzz& Teaching and Learning
In the Teachers Buzz meeting last Monday, it turned out that quite a number of the 35 avatars in attendance are teaching or mentoring on the teen grid. The three presenters, KJ, Clare and Victoria are conducting their research at least in part on the teen grid, so this is perhaps not so surprising. [Please see the links to their blogs in the earlier post here.]
During the discussion, which touched on the immersive nature of students and teachers experiences in ... more » »
Apr 24, 2007 12:23am in department: Campus Headlines& People, Places, Things& Resources & Information& Teacher's Buzz& Teaching and Learning& What's Happening
Please join us on the NMC's Teaching 3 island on Mon 30 Apr at 6pm PDT / SLT for a discussion facilitated by three researchers working actively in-world: KJ Hax, Victoria Gloucester (Catherine Parsons in RL) and Clare Lane.
KJ (aka Kevin Jarrett) received a grant from Walden University to research best teaching and learning practices in SL with former MSEd student, Clare. Victoria has been working in SL since the fall of 2006 and is currently doing her doctoral ... more » »
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