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Teaching students how to build airplanes, robots and simulations is serious business, but Designing Digitally, Inc. plans to make it a game — literally. Join us for the Metanomics Community Forum on Thursday, June 9th at 12pm PDT/ SLT when Andrew Hughes of Designing Digitally updates us on his firm’s virtual activities. He claims that he is bringing a secret guest ... more » »
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Educators have a special energy in the summer. Perhaps it is the freedom from classes, grading and being so adult. Summer is a great time for learning, exploring and yes, professional development but why choose something dry and serious. How about camp? And why not, GameCamp!
Project Lead Lisa Dawley, PH.D. has assembled an incredible team to guide campers at 3D GameLab’s first ... more » »
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Today, the Metanomics Community Forum will re-visit the Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds 2011 conference which took place recently in Washington, DC. One day of workshops followed by two days of presentations from both government and the private sectors covered many topics and way streamed to a number of virtual platforms. The media stream that resulted continues a week later and we’ll ... more » »
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The Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds Conference is taking place today and tomorrow. We’re watching it at Metanomics, you can join us here: http://bit.ly/MCForum
The National Defense University Website is once again live, here’s the schedule: NDU FCVW Agenda
David Smith of Lockheed Martin just finished his keynote, in which he shared a historical overview as he looked to the future which he ... more » »
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No formal program planned for this afternoon’s Metanomics Community Forum at 3pm SLT, but feel free to drop by and chat if you have a topic to propose or questions. I plan to load the YouTube feed of the Royal Wedding (great photo gallery of preparations in the Washington Post.) Coverage begins much earlier but the hour long ceremony takes place ... more » »
NMC Campus Observer Note... You can watch this Metanomics show live at Teaching (111, 113, 23) on NMC Campus
No formal program planned for this afternoon’s Metanomics Community Forum at 3pm SLT, but feel free to drop by and chat if you have a topic to propose or questions. I plan to load the YouTube feed of the Royal Wedding (great photo gallery of preparations in the Washington Post.) Coverage begins much earlier but the hour long ceremony takes place ... more » »
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Metanomics was the virtual host for a fascinating Real Life/ Second Life event on Saturday, April 23rd which featured Philip Rosedale, Founder and former CEO of Linden Labs and regular Metanomics guest, anthropologist Tom Boellstorff, author of “Coming of Age in Second Life.” Following their discussion, Michelle Tea, Valencia author and founder of RADAR Productions and Sister Spit, interviewed Amos Mac, ... more » »
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The Customizable Body: The Present Future of Radical Identity
With its rich history of counterculture movements and California abundance, the Bay Area is a lifestyle laboratory for people and communities seeking to de-center the center and un-normalize the norms. Whether in the form of radical gender and sexual identity, political inclination, body modification, or technological utopianism, we are what the rest ... more » »
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The second half of the week is kicking into high gear. Join us for great discussions today and again on Saturday!
The Metanomics Community Forum, Thursday, April 21rd at 12pm SLT welcomes the extraordinarily talented Saffia Widdershins and Elrik Merlin from Designing Worlds and the extensive Prim Perfect Enterprise.
Designing Worlds is the hit weekly show on design and designers in virtual worlds, ... more » »
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At 12pm PDT we’ll speak with the intrepid group who brought you the wonderful events of this week, mirroring the National Robotics Week with events scheduled through out the United States. There’s more to take in through Sunday, April 17th, with a particularly interesting session at 2pm today, at Virtual Ability. Join us!
Blog: Virtual IEEE RoboWeek
Calendar: Virtual RoboWeek Calendar
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