Articles from 'Teacher's Buzz'
Corwin Carillon (aka Nick Noakes) :
Nov 19, 2007 09:34pm
Next Teachers Buzz 4pm PST/SLT Mon 26 Nov - Discussion: Millennial students and SL
Location: Boracay http://tinyurl.com/yqj55o
Your timezone: http://timeanddate.com/s/kga
Join us on Mon 26 Nov at 4pm PST with Jatt Writer (aka Jan Morrison, Washoe County School District, Reno, Nevada State and Federal Programs Dept. Project Director) on the topic of milliennial students and SL.
As teachers in SL are we optimizing the learning journey of our Millennial students? What relationship do the Millennial Generation's skills and attributes have to education on ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Nov 1, 2007 02:01pm
We had a fantastic turnout for Monday's NMC Teachers Buzz Session hosted at the British Gothic Literature Classroom. We owe a big thanks to Desideria Stockton and Eloise Pasteur for making this an interactive and fun experience and also to all of the groovy colleagues who showed up in their best Second Life costumes (there is still something ironic about an avatar wearing a costume).
The crowd lingers at the entrance. "Go inside and explore!" urges Eloise.
I must admit with some ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Oct 27, 2007 07:25am
Rummage through your inventory for a costume and join us Monday, Oct 29 for the next NMC Teacher's Buzz Session- a Halloween celebration hosted at a new Gothic Literature sim built by the dynamic duo Eloise Pasteur and Desideria Stockton.
Of course, when you think about it, the notion of "dressing up in a costume" in Second Life has some sort of weird recursive effect. Don't think about, just be creative. We have some Linden prize money set up for best ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Oct 1, 2007 07:40pm
We so much appreciate today that DonCoyote took the time to give a tour of his Full Immersion Hyperformalism exhibit on Arts and Letters, one of the NMC Campus sims. Our apologies for a few folks who we may have missed the mark with the SLURL location- things get tricky when you are working at an elevation of 700 meters!
Photo courtesy of DanCoyote
I had even more challenges as my internet connection went out completely just as the tour was about ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Sep 19, 2007 04:18pm
With our many excellent collaborations with visionary artist DanCoyote (DC), we've been eager to find a time when he might visit our NMC Teachers Buzz group to talk about his art, performance, and stretching the possibilities of creativity in this place.
It's all arranged as he is coming to our next meeting to help us understand "Full Immersion Hyperformalism".
The organizing principle behind this exhibition is to encourage guests to take advantage of Second Life’s ability to “cut the tethers” that hold ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Sep 19, 2007 02:47pm
Got Plork? Why not?
Monday's discussion for the NMC Campus Teachers Buzz was lively and fast moving! Guest host Aurilli Oh set up a conversation about "PLORK: Adults at play and work: A Collective Reflection" advertised as:
Whether you’re a newbie or a seasoned resident, you’ve probably noticed that Second Life is a bundle of plork. It’s fun, satisfying, frustrating, intense. It’s a lot of thinking and feeling rolled up into flow (Csiksczentmihalyi, 1991) experiences for many of us. Aurili led a ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Sep 11, 2007 11:10am
Here's a relatively early heads up for the next NMC Campus Teacher's Buzz session, a discussion session led my Aurili Oh, (aka Suzanne Aurilio) of San Diego State University. The topic is PLORK: Adults at play and work: A Collective Reflection.
I had to do a bit of deeper than one click googling to get at the concept of Plork - not the PLOrk Princeton Laptop Orchestra (that that sounds interesting). And on the Urban Dictionary, I was fairly sure it ... 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 » »
Corwin Carillon (aka Nick Noakes) :
Aug 29, 2007 10:22pm
Next NMC Buzz Meeting Tue 4 Sep 9am SLT/PDT at NOAA with Hackshaven Harford
YOUR TIME ZONE: http://timeanddate.com/s/gn2
DIRECT LINK: secondlife://Meteora/177/161/27
SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Meteora/177/161/27
Soar through a hurricane on the wing of a research aircraft, rise gently through the atmosphere atop a weather balloon, or search for a hidden underwater cave on a side trip from a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA http://www.noaa.gov/) submersible. These and other virtual adventures are attracting large numbers of visitors to one of the first government-sponsored, Earth-science virtual ... more » »
Corwin Carillon (aka Nick Noakes) :
Aug 21, 2007 07:23am
39 Teachers Buzz participants had a great tour of a student built exhibit courtesy of our guides, instructional designer Ourania Fizgig and student Alan Myhre. They led us through The History of Earth & Life on Earth Exhibit, which was created as part of a non-major undergraduate intro-astrobiology course, Exploring Life in the Universe.
Students in the ASTR202 (spring 2007) class helped to design and build a scale model installation work on the timeline of Earth, 4.6 billion years ago ... more » »
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