Articles from 'Teacher's Buzz'
Corwin Carillon (aka Nick Noakes) :
Aug 14, 2007 10:10pm
Not losing a stride from the fantastic NMC Symposium on Creativity in Second Life, Teachers Buzz kicks off next week with another not to missed session! Join Cosmo Priestman, Ourania Fizgig and ScubaChris Wollongong as they take use 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 ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Aug 7, 2007 03:58pm
For our NMC Campus Teachers Buzz Session, we had an exceptional visit Monday, to Wasp, the home of Australian SL Educators jokay Wollongong and Sean McDunnough, who shared the broad array of resources they ave developed for Australia teachers.
As one participant remarked, they have developed a very visual pleasing and information common look and feel to their materials. And even more so, they have covered their bases in terms of providing acccess to them- in world at Wasp (74,31,86), ... more » »
Corwin Carillon (aka Nick Noakes) :
Aug 3, 2007 12:23am
Make a date in your SL diaries for next Monday at 7am PST (check you date and time here, when we'll meet up with jokay Wollongong and Sean McDunnough for a tour of their Virtual Meeting Space at Wasp: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Wasp/74/31/86/ or the direct link secondlife://Wasp/74/31/86/.
Jo and Sean will provide an overview of their recent projects, including newbies' resources, support materials they are developing to assist teachers entering Second Life, and a resource on Educational Uses of Second Life.
The tour will ... more » »
Corwin Carillon (aka Nick Noakes) :
Jul 24, 2007 08:57pm
What's your dress code?
Mon 23 Jul saw a vibrant and open discussion with people sharing views on avatars, appearance and identity for teachers in Second Life.
Picking up on a recent (and recurring) discussion on the Second Life Educators list (SLED), the discussion was wide ranging covering the varied reasons for choice of avatar types and appearances. Some opted for having a least one alternate avatar to keep professional and personal separate. Whilst others opted for just one, but perhaps dressed ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jul 19, 2007 09:18am
Our next NMC Campus Teacher's Buzz Session is Monday July 23 , 9:00am SLT/PDT (check your local time). This time we are planning a hopefully active discussion session format based on implications, decisions, and approaches for "dressing up" your avatar.
Image created with BigHugeLabs Mosaic Maker using mostly images flickr photos tagged "people" ** from the NMC Campus collection (download large version of mosaic, 1Mb JPEG). See below for the individual photo credits. Oops, so many pictures to choose, it ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jul 10, 2007 04:24pm
Last Sunday and Monday, a group of graduate students from Pepperdine University’s Online Masters Degree in Education (OMET) coordinated an event and dialogue on the topic of "Choice" in Education, hosted on NMC Campus's Teaching 2 amphitheater.
The Monday night session was slotted as a time for the NMC Campus Teacher's Buzz Session to participate. Regretfully, in RL, this dog was rather sick and missed the event. Fortunately, event organizer Angelique Jano provided a bit of recap:
For the last two nights ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jun 28, 2007 04:20pm
We have another special event coming to NMC Campus to share with our adoring readers (well, we imagine you are adoring!).
On July 7 and repeated on July 8, some graduate students from the Pepperdine University Online Masters of Educational Technology (OMET) program are convening an audience to talk in Second Life how to give education itself a second life (in the broader terms).
So they are asking us to ask all you to show up at NMC Campus on Teaching ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jun 27, 2007 11:05am
Sometimes at our NMC Campus Teachers Buzz meetings we talk a lot about teaching and learning in Second Life-- it was a nice change to actually be part of the action last Monday night.
We owe a big thanks to Desideria Stockton and her DeSales University students who on Monday night allowed our NMC Teachers Buzz group to take part in a class activity over at the Women of Brewster Place classroom. Plus another thanks to Eloise Pasteur, builder and scripter ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jun 22, 2007 09:47am
The NMC Campus Teachers Buzz is returning to its every other Monday schedule. We are looking to fill out a schedule a few weeks out, so if you are interested in hosting a tour, leading a discussion, or sharing a resource, just sign up on the wiki.
Our next meeting is Monday, June 25 at 6:00 PM SLT/PDT (check for local time), and is a special treat. Take a literature class with Desi! Desideria Stockton has invited us to be there ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
May 10, 2007 11:29am
The name does not exactly roll easily off the tongue.. but it will be worthy joining Blogsar Monday, 9:00 AM PDT (check your local time) for our next NMC Teachers Buzz Session. Better known in the education technology as the RL avatar Will Richardson, Blogsar is relatively new to Second Life, and looking to probe it more by talking with other educators.
Interview with Blogsar Lumpen
Blogsar has recently "set up shop" on EduIsland-- and like many of us, feels more at ... more » »
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