Articles from 'Second Life News'
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
May 2, 2007 05:23pm
The NMC is interested in learning more about the ever growing number of educators who are using or exploring Second Life. To conduct some research, we have just launched a 42 item, anonymous online survey aimed at educators (faculty, staff, student, administrator) who have an active Second Life account. Our questions aim to get an understanding of their SL preferences, behaviors in Second Life, their current or future planned educational activities, and some demographics/technology use of this group.
The ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Apr 24, 2007 03:34pm
There's some exciting work underway at NMC Campus. We are working with the Linden Lab API for account generation that will allow us to host our own new user account creation form on this web site, rather than going through the form at the main Second Life web site. When the account is created, a new avatar will not be sent to the Orientation Island with every other newbie, but they will go to our own custom Orientation Island.
So this ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Apr 13, 2007 12:56am
Hey all you virtual Okies! Grab your wagon and head for Lebenswelt. Grab a homestead of land, set up shop, and you might win the whole island!
CtrlShift07 is "the first Australasian Student Architecture Congress in New Zealand since 1982, as well as being the first ever architectural congress running concurrently in both physical and virtual worlds." The workshops and events are happening in July 2007.
As part of this conference in architecture, planning, and design, they are holding a competition in ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Mar 30, 2007 03:29pm
This cliche phrase is something you may see in many chat windows. Up until now, voice communication in Second Life was limited to use of technologies that exisit outside of SL - TeamSpeak, Skype, Ventrilo, etc. But as rumors and announcements have rolled out this year, stand back as voice communication is coming as an integrated feature within Second Life.
A few weeks ago we were able to invite a group of 100+ avatars (spread over a few time sessions) onto ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Mar 23, 2007 02:03pm
Just passing along some info on an art opening happening today (March 23rd).
If you enjoy excellent contemporary art, we invite you to join us at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) Neufreistadt for our Grand Opening Celebrations on March 23 (at 1pm PDT, repeated at 7 pm PDT) at:
Neufreistadt (177, 136, 182)
At MoCA, you will find a rich selection of original paintings, digital art, sculpture and video from some of the best artists Second Life has to offer.
In ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Feb 2, 2007 11:42pm
Why not? Some folks have planned a Second Life version of a convention, calling it Second Convention. It's offering advertised segments on Socializing, Creations, Fashions, Racing, And Humor-- are these the five senses?
No Learning or Education, but heck, it could be Fun.
Conventions are a great deal of fun, they're a great way to find out what's happening in a community, and a great way for businesses to connect with their consumers. There is however one problem with every Convention, they ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jan 30, 2007 01:04pm
We've just gotten word from NMC Member University of Michigan's 3D Lab of a new development using the open sourced Second Life client. They have connected a modified version of the client to the platform developed under the GeoWall project -- off the shelf hardware that powers a set of paired computer projectors to create stereoscopic views.
So you might strap on a pair of 3D movie glasses and see how the world of Second Life looks as 3D projection!
The University ... more » »
Corwin Carillon (aka Nick Noakes) :
Jan 23, 2007 01:32am
Today Bryan Mnemonic (aka Assoc. Prof. Bryan Carter) from the University of Central Missouri and Ali Andrews (aka Aline Click) of Northern Illinois University (NIU) told a group of SL teachers of their work with students in SL, and took us on a tour of some of the assignments and projects produces by learners in their composition classes in Second Life. Bryan has been teaching courses in SL for just over a year on the Island of Glidden, maintained by ... more » »
Corwin Carillon (aka Nick Noakes) :
Dec 5, 2006 10:49pm
The Global Outreach Morocco team at Johnson & Wales University has partnered with the Ministry of Tourism of Morocco on an experiential learning project using Second Life to create a virtual Morocco.
Virtual Morocco contains monuments and experiences from Casablanca, Rabat, and Marrakesh, and includes space for projecting real-world events into the virtual environment. The goals of this multidisciplinary team project are to provide an immersive experience that educates visitors about Moroccan culture while enticing them to think about Morocco ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Oct 21, 2006 06:57pm
Today at 11:00 AM was the headline event (well, actually, they all were!), but haivng Howard Rheingold in world for a keynote is definitely a high water mark for our Impact of Digital Media Symposium... 12 days of presentations, art, music, discussion, and interaction. We will have some stats to share soon, but our sensors recorded more than 1000 unique avatars came to NMC Campus during the Symposium.
Howard Rheingold in RL (left, photo) and SL (right, avatar) presenting to NMC ... more » »
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