CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jan 25, 2008 03:40pm
We are excited to announce that starting Monday, NMC Campus will be a partner site for tuning into the weekly Metanomics events that bring together many of the thought leaders in virtual worlds.
“Metanomics†refers to the study of the business and policy aspects of the “metaverse†of virtual worlds. Metanomics can focus on issues arising within virtual worlds, such as how developers manage the economy of a game world (like World of Warcraft), or how residents of virtual worlds ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jan 21, 2008 03:27pm
Thanks to an invite from Fleep Tuque, I and seven other educators got a tour and rich experience with PARSEC-- an installation? an immersive game? an interactive art piece? it is all very hard to define in words. PARSEC is a project created by Dizzy Banjo, Eshi Otawara and Chase Marellan... we thank Eshi greatly for allowing us to interrupt her to give us a tour.
On entering PARSEC (a giant seeming infiinite white dome), each of seven avatars dons a ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Dec 16, 2007 10:31pm
With so many blogs to write in, photos to post, and places to be in Second Life, we humbly aplogize for not sharing a video from way back in.. August 2007. As you ought to have memorized, this was the NMC's first every online conference hosted completely in Second Life- the NMC Symposium on Creativity in SL.
While we have a good pile of tagged media and stories on the main NMC web site, we goofed and completely forgot to ... more » »
Corwin Carillon (aka Nick Noakes) :
Sep 5, 2007 03:20am
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 » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Aug 28, 2007 10:17am
We are pleased to see an increase in the number of events happening on the NMC Educational Communities, the sub-leased sims that are being used by our growing list of clients.
Running through September 7 over on Outreach, Woosong University located in Daejeon, South Korea, is running an Asia Photo Exhibit as a way of introducing themselves to the NMC community.
The exhibit includes professional shots taken in twelve different countries: Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Aug 22, 2007 04:03pm
Are you missing out on being in Chicago this weekend for the 2007 Second Life Community Convention? Have no fear, as many are working hard to bring you the events in world the SLCC Education Track.
NMC Virtual Worlds is the lead sponsor for the track- and you will find the latest schedule at Simteach. In world, you will find the posters available on InfoIsland (152,121,33) and the live sessions at the Muriel Cooper Coliseum on ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Aug 21, 2007 04:20pm
While we covered the first session (Ted Kahn on Synectics) from Friday as a separate post, this day of the Symposium on Creativity might have been the most full, and this, most challenging to summarize, even now, a few days after the fact.
So there is going to be a long stream of photos here- but also, stay tuned to the longer stream accumulating on our slcreativity flickr tag of shared photos, well over 1000 images as of this post.
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CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Aug 21, 2007 02:50pm
The Friday schedule for the NMC Symposium on Creativity in Second Life opened with a very special presentation by SynapticWizard Karas (aka Ted M. Kahn) of DesignWorlds for Learning, Inc. but also the very first NMC Fellow. Ted brought us a classic theoretial concept of Synectics into the virtual space through this session and his activities.
Synectics, Everywhere and a Virtual Museum of the Future: Educreation in Second Life
This session will give a very brief overview of the history of ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Aug 13, 2007 10:25pm
It's going to be a challenge to provide comprehensive coverage of this week's Symposium on Creativity given... there's so much going on! Sadly, I am not able to be at all sessions, and we are counting on people at the sessions to be blogging, taking photos, and tagging everything with slcreativity.
Starting off today, Emby Semaphore (aka Michael Berman, Art Center College of Design) ran a session on Taking the Mystery Out of Scripting – A Hands-on Workshop (see below ... 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 » »
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