CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Oct 31, 2007 12:21pm
Yesterday, Case Western Reserve University hosted both in RL and SL their Faculty Technology Showcase-- with versions of project posters available at Case's location on the ClevelandPlus sim.
Live video streamed in the overviews provided by the faculty, but in addition, we got to listen to a moving lunch time (well lunch time in Cleveland) keynote by Lev Book (aka RL Lev Gonick, Case CIO).
Look below for our audio recording of Lev's remarks, very much worth listening to as he ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Aug 28, 2007 08:36am
It's been more than a week since the end of the NMC Symposium on Creativity on Second Life, yet we continue to find thing to share! As noted, from the Friday highlights, we ended that day with 3 performances of DanCoyote Antonelli's ZeroG SkyDancers, one of the most unique and demonstratively creative art forms in Second Life (learn more about DC's concepts of hyperformalism...)
During the show, like many of you, I was taking lots of snapshots (see 1000+ flickr photos ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Aug 26, 2007 10:24pm
As the closing keynote for the Education Track at SLCC 2007, NMC CEO Larry Johnson presented an expanded version of his talk at the NMC Symposium on Creativity with his self-admitted optimistic view of "What Creativity Matters".
Via reports from in-world respondents, the audio stream was working (whew!), but we did manage to grab a recording -- see below (note that the house audio volume was very low). Thanks to our SL colleagues who shared the chat transcript from the folks ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Aug 25, 2007 10:04pm
Sarah Robbins, ever effervescent Intellagirl, revved up the energy at SLCC 207 with her session on a A Futurist’s View of Second Life Education. She presenter her own matrix framework for looking at the attributes of virtual worlds and plotted were we are at... and encouraged educators to help drive where it will go.
Sadly, with hotel internet connectivity issues plaguing the conference, the live audio stream into Second Life did not make it. We understood that as pluck in world ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Aug 21, 2007 05:56pm
This was the last of seven incredible days of the NMC Symposium on Creativity in Second Life. After a full week, I must admit I took a "cat nap" Saturday morning and missed the sessions on "Introduction to Scripting in Second Life", "Improvisation and Second Life", and "Effective Communication Design with Scripted Objects" (the latter two were second offerings).
At 4:00 PM we welcomed back the lovely and articulate Anya Ixchel (aka Angela Thomas, University of Sydney) for another insightful session ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Aug 17, 2007 06:53pm
We are so excited to share the work of one of the participants at this week's NMC Symposium on Creativity on Second Life. Calisto Encinal (aka James Abraham, Glendale Community College) participated in the Machinima Studio Session, where he created Calisto Meets His Maker, a creative look at not just a virtual world, but.... well, I don't want to give any of it away.
Just watch!
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As Calisto notes in his blog:
I kicked around ideas for a couple of days, ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Aug 16, 2007 10:46am
As a special, fun event, yesterday evening we had a social activity held at a lofty 600 meters above NMC Campus, a new NMC Faculty Club designed by Stella Costello. We were fortunate to have live music performed for us by Chronic Skronski.
And to add to the atmosphere, we made use of Lyr Lobo's Dance Machine to smoothly choreograph the avatar audience (this is the same device she has demonstrated twice in her sessions on Dancin' with Wolves: Lyr Lobo's ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Aug 16, 2007 10:35am
The Wednesday schedule for the NMC Symposium on Creativity in Second Life was deliberately made more open, mostly to allow for possible downtimes for SL updates (and there was one in the morning), but also to give folks a breathing break! It's been an exciting schedule, and maybe a bit over the top for those needing to get some Rl balance.
But the NMC Conference Center had some action, people were over in the Studio areas tinkering on projects, etc. By ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Aug 13, 2007 09:00pm
It's been about 12 hours since the first full day of the NMC Symposium on Creativity launched, and what a day its been. Catching up on the activity is going to be a big job, mostly left for "later", but we wanted to make sure to share the video archive of Larry Pixel's (aka Larry Johnson) keynote session on Why Creativity Matters.
Keynote video [46.9 Mb Quicktime]. Also available on Google Video and blip.tv. And see below for the remarks as ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Aug 13, 2007 12:15am
After months of planning, and watching the fabulous builds unfold created by the NMC Virtual Worlds team, it was exciting to see all the activity, enthusiasm for todays opening of the week-long Symposium on Creativity in Second Life.
That's not to say it was perfect (This is Second Life after all, where your world just may crash on you- 5 times) -- right at the opening of the Studio Sessions, no one was able to teleport anywhere, so folks could ... more » »
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