posted by tayzia () at June 11th, 2009
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Three Featured artists with a variety of mediums and art forms. In this exhibit you will find the real life paintings of Filthy Fluno, virtual static sculpture by Red Randt as well as virtual ever changing sculpture by Maryva Mayo. Stop in and get to know these talented artists and ask them about their RL art as well!
published June 11th, 2009 at 05:25am
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posted by jeffers () at May 18th, 2009
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Global Agenda 2009-Tinderbox-Understanding The Middle East
Date & Time: May 20, 2009 - 4:30-6:00 PT (7:30pm ET)
This week #7 of 7: Fueling the Flames: the Politics of Oil
Speaker: Jon B. Alterman - director and senior fellow of the Center for Strategic & International Studies Middle East Program
Location: http://slurl.com/secondlife/University%20of%20Delaware/56/150/26
For Questions or TP help: Firery Broome
This is a live simulcast, questions will be taken from the SL audience.
Jon B. Alterman is director and senior fellow of the Center for Strategic & International Studies Middle East Program. Prior to joining CSIS, a Washington think-tank, he served as a member of the Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State and as a special assistant to the assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs.
He served as an expert adviser to the Iraq Study Group (also known as the Baker-Hamilton Commission) and is a professorial lecturer at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and the George Washington University. Before entering government, he was a scholar at the U.S. Institute of Peace and at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. From 1993 to 1997, Alterman was an award-winning teacher at Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D. in history. He also worked as a legislative aide to Senator Daniel P. Moynihan (D-N.Y.), responsible for foreign policy and defense.
The series is hosted by Ralph Begleiter, Rosenberg Professor of Communication and Distinguished Journalist in Residence, and former CNN World Affairs Correspondent.
Global Agenda speakers page:
http://www.udel.edu/global/agenda/2009/Global_Agenda_2009/Speakers.html
John’s list of publications: http://www.csis.org/component/option,com_csis_experts/task,view/id,8/
published May 18th, 2009 at 08:30am
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posted by jeffers () at May 12th, 2009
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The University of Delaware Women’s Studies faculty invite you to join them and their students for the unveiling of the capstone oral history project, “Latinas Speak Out!”
A juried exhibit featuring short video documentaries by University of Delaware Women’s Studies graduating seniors opens Thursday, May 14, at 1:00 p.m. EST (10:00 a.m. SLT).
The three-minute films highlight Delaware Latinas with testimonials about strength, identity, and perseverance. The student video producers will be in-world from 1:00 to 1:30 p.m. ET on May 14 to discuss their oral history project, their behind-the-scenes research, and their film-making process.
Slurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/U%20Delaware%20II/130/167/26
For help or more info. IM Firery Broome
published May 12th, 2009 at 06:18am
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posted by Alan Levine (New Media Consortium) at May 5th, 2009
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While in person registration is sold out for the Thursday, May 7 Collaboration Technology and Engaging the Campus Summit at Case Western Reserve University, send your avatar to be there at the Kelvin Smith Library Amphitheater in Second Life (at ClevelandPlus 200,88,27).
All of the sessions below will be simulcast into Second Life, with events going from 5:30 am–1:00 pm Pacific time (8:30am-4:00pm Eastern Time). NMC’s own Larry Pixel (aka Larry Johnson) will be keynoting on The Horizon Report: Emerging Technologies and the Future of Education.
Program of Simulcasts (All times shown are Pacific)
5:30 – 6:00 am
Press Release: Major announcements on new collaborations between Case Western Reserve University and the technology industry.
6:00 - 6:45 am
Collaboration Tools and Learning: Web Collaboration and Learning with Adobe Connect
7:00 - 7:45 am
Panel Discussion: Collaboration Technology and Education: with perspectives from the campus (Case, MIT, Cornell), the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and industry
8:00 - 8:45 am (2 streams)
Faculty Innovation: Virtual Reality and Learning with Second Life
and
Faculty Innovation: Video Centric Learning with MediaVision Courseware
9:00 - 9:45 am (2 streams)
Collaboration Tools and Learning: Perspectives on Real Time Video Collaboration
and
Collaboration Tools and Learning: The Business of E-Learning
9:45 - 11:00 am
Keynote Speech: The Horizon Report: Emerging Technologies and the Future of Education
Laurence F. Johnson, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer of the New Media Consortium
with introduction by W. A. “Bud” Baeslack III, Executive Vice President and Provost, Case Western Reserve University
11:15 am - 12:00 pm (2 streams)
Faculty Innovation: Multimedia Learning with Pachyderm
and
Collaboration Tools and Learning: Rich Media for Teaching and Learning
12:15 - 1:00 pm
Panel Discussion: The Future of Technology and Education: with perspectives from the campus (MIT, Central Florida, CANAIRE) and industry
1:15 pm
Closing Remarks
published May 5th, 2009 at 04:03pm
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posted by Alan Levine (New Media Consortium) at May 5th, 2009
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The weekly Metanomics series relaunches this week at its new regular time slot- Wednesdays at 1:00 PM Pacific Time. The NMC is pleased to again be a host site, so you can catch the show at our Amphitheater on Outreach (87, 125, 34).
Metanomics host Beyers Sellers (aka Robert Bloomfield) is opening with a Major guest, M Linden — Linden Lab CEO Mark Kingdon.
Closing in on one year with Linden Lab, Mark Kingdon has seen first-hand how an engaged and creative community creates rich opportunities for education, content development, architecture, exploration, enterprise, training and many other uses! But supporting an active community presents challenges and opportunities. We’ll discuss with Mark the lessons he has learned in his first year with Linden Lab, his assessment of Second Life’s economy and user base, and plans for the future.
published May 5th, 2009 at 06:10am
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posted by tayzia () at May 4th, 2009
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SL/RL Composer/Artist Collaborative Art, Kinetic Art, Static Scultpure, Interactive Art, Light and Glow Enabled Art and More!
Reunion by Andrek Lowell
Sphere Ball by Suzanne Graves
Laughing Flowers by Elizabeth Tinsley
May by Misprint Thursday
Musician Winters Kanto will be performing on the piano beginning at 6pm. His style of music is Tango Ballad, Bossa, Jazz and Boleros. Winters also plays Classical Music , Chopin, Bethoven, and Mozart at his Concerts.
Artists in this sim-wide exhibit include: Spiral Walcher, Suzanne Graves, Madcow Cosmos, vanfarel Kupfer, Elizabeth Tinsley, Alizarin Goldflake/Flivelwitz Alsop, Native Aeon, Binary Quandry, nand Nerd, Pol Jarvinen, Kolor Fall, nessuno myoo, Golam Amadeus, Sunn Thunders, Glyph Graves, Oberon Onmura, Gleman Jun, Colt Parx, Misprint Thursday, Andrek Lowell, Treacle Darlandes/Nicolaus Skytower, Binary Quandry/Nicolaus Skytower, Ub Yifu/Nicolaus Skytower and Qarl Fizz.
published May 4th, 2009 at 12:39pm
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posted by jeffers () at April 28th, 2009
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This is #6 of 7: Understanding Israel’s Government
Speaker: Hon. Daniel Kutner - Israeli Consul General in Philadelphia
Location: http://slurl.com/secondlife/University%20of%20Delaware/56/150/26
Date & Time: May 6, 2009 - 4:30-6:00 PT (7:30pm ET)
This is a live simulcast, questions will be taken from the SL audience.
Daniel Kutner assumed the position of Consul General of Israel to the Mid-Atlantic Region of the United States in September 2008. He is the official representative of the State of Israel to the Mid Atlantic Region, including Pennsylvania, Ohio, Delaware, Kentucky, West Virginia and Southern New Jersey.
Previously, Mr. Kutner headed the Bureau for Economic and Strategic Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Center for Political Research.
Mr. Kutner has held various positions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Center for political research, including Director for Palestinian and Jordanian Affairs, Director of the Division for Egypt and North Africa, acting director of the Division for Syrian and Lebanese Affairs, and Senior Analyst for North Africa and Syria.
The series is hosted by Ralph Begleiter, Rosenberg Professor of Communication and Distinguished Journalist in Residence, and former CNN World Affairs Correspondent
Global Agenda speakers page:
http://www.udel.edu/global/agenda/2009/Global_Agenda_2009/Speakers.html
Speaker’s Web page: http://www.udel.edu/global/agenda/2009/Global_Agenda_2009/Speaker_bio_6.html
For Questions or TP help: Firery Broome
published April 28th, 2009 at 06:14am
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posted by jeffers () at April 28th, 2009
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Tuesday, May 5 from 2:00- 3:30 PT (5-6:30 p.m ET) Robert Seyfarth, a noted expert on monkey communication, will present “Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind”.
Seyfarth is a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has been on the faculty since 1985. He and Dorothy Cheney, his wife and collaborator, who is on Penn’s biology faculty, studied communication, social behavior and cognition in chacma baboons in Botswana’s Okavango Delta from 1992 to 2008. These baboons are among the largest of the world’s five species and live in large groups of 100 where social rank is determined by a complex web of relationships.
This live simulcast will kick off the University of Delaware’s Year of Darwin Celebration. The series, to continue through the fall, honors the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his landmark work On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
Read more here: http://www.udel.edu/udaily/2009/apr/darwin042709.html
Join use with this SLurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/University%20of%20Delaware/56/150/26
In world help IM: Firery Broome
published April 28th, 2009 at 05:57am
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posted by jeffers () at April 21st, 2009
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Global Agenda 2009-Tinderbox-Understanding The Middle East
Date & Time: April 22, 2009 - 4:30-6:00 PT (7:30pm ET)
This week #5 of 7: Understanding Israel
Speaker: Tom Segev - Israel
Location: http://slurl.com/secondlife/University%20of%20Delaware/56/150/26
For Questions or TP help: Firery Broome
This is a live simulcast, questions will be taken from the SL audience.
Tom is a historian and a weekly columnist for Ha’aretz, Israel’s leading newspaper. He is author of six books that have been translated in seven languages, including Israel: 1949: The First Israelis, The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust, and One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs under the British Mandate, a New York Times editors’ choice best book for 2000. His most recent book is 1967-Israel, the War and the Year That Transformed the Middle East. He has just completed the first fully documented biography of Simon Wiesenthal, to be published by the end of 2009.
He was born in 1945 in Jerusalem, and continues to live there.
The series is hosted by Ralph Begleiter, Rosenberg Professor of Communication and Distinguished Journalist in Residence, and former CNN World Affairs Correspondent.
Global Agenda: http://www.udel.edu/global
published April 21st, 2009 at 03:43am
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posted by jeffers () at April 12th, 2009
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Wednesday, April 15 - The American Geographical Society’s awards ceremony
Wednesday’s simulcast begins at 4:30 p.m. PT (7:30 p.m. ET)
The University of Delaware will honor past and present polar explorers - of this planet and of Mars.
Also recognized will be the researchers who oversaw the gargantuan task of relocating the society’s library, described as “the largest privately owned geographical research collection in the western hemisphere,” from New York to Wisconsin in the 1970s.
The public is invited to attend the live simulcasts of the ceremonies and lectures on the UD islands.
Location: http://slurl.com/secondlife/University%20of%20Delaware/56/150/26
More info: http://www.udel.edu/udaily/2009/apr/agsawards040609.html
Questions or help, IM Firery Broome
Thursday, April 16 - Cullum Geographical Medal
Simulcast begins at 4:30 p.m. PT (7:30 p.m. ET)
The Cullum Geographical Medal, “for those who distinguish themselves by geographical discoveries or in the advancement of geographical science,” will be presented to Peter Smith, principal investigator of the Phoenix Mars Mission, and be awarded posthumously to Matthew Henson, the African American explorer who accompanied Commander Robert Peary on the 1909 expedition to the North Pole.
Peter Smith, senior research scientist at the University of Arizona and principal investigator of NASA’s Phoenix Mars Mission, will highlight the novel spacecraft’s discoveries in the “The Journey of the Phoenix.”
More info about Peter Smith and the Martian Arctic lecture: http://www.udel.edu/udaily/2009/apr/mars040909.html
General Award info: http://www.udel.edu/udaily/2009/apr/agsawards040609.html
Friday April 17th - Samual F. B. Morse Medal -Simulcast begins at 12:30 p.m. PT (3:30 p.m.ET)
The Samuel Finley Breese Morse Medal, “for the encouragement of geographical research,” will be presented to Barbara Borowiecki, professor emerita of geography, and William Roselle, director (retired) of the Golda Meir Library, at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Roselle will describe “the moving experience” in the Department of Geography’s seminar series.
More info about the Roselle talk: http://www.udel.edu/udaily/2009/apr/rosellelecture040709.html
General info: http://www.udel.edu/udaily/2009/apr/agsawards040609.html
published April 12th, 2009 at 03:04pm
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