Articles from 'Tips'

Studio One Interview: Teaching Accounting in SL to 700+ Students

CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) : Aug 12, 2008 09:31am

Yesterday we took the massive audio equipment for NMC Studio One (that is a joke, we just use voice chat and WireTap Studio Pro) over to NMC Orientation to talk to Robins Hermano, who we learned is akin to the circus daredevils, by planning this fall to bring 700 of his accounting students into Second Life. Robins RL avatar is Steve Hornik, an accounting professor in the College of Business Administration at University of Central Florida. Robins has been using ... more » »

Share, Tag Your Flickr Photos for Us

CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) : Mar 25, 2007 10:14pm

Flickr has introduced new content filter features that can make it easy for you to include your NMC Campus photos into this site (see flickr blog for more explanation). Until recently, flickr considered accounts that included mostly Second Life photos as "screenshots", marking these accounts as Not In Public Service Area, and thus, would not show up on search results or public tags. So before today, the photos in the right sidebar of the NMC Campus Observer site were limited to ... more » »

Tip: SL Time Zones

CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) : Jan 2, 2007 12:43pm

Given that we recently had a change in the last digit of our time clocks (a sly way of saying, "Happy New Year"), we thought it worth sharing how we deal with events and time zones in Second Life. The ability to meet anyone from any RL location, means that timing is critical. In this tip, we'll review the "proper" notation for times in Second Life, and provide some tools you can use to set up easily clickable time zone converters, ... more » »

Tip: Pick Your Login Location

CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) : Dec 20, 2006 11:36am

As part of our NMC Campus public service, we hope to start writing some more tips and things useful to SL users. If you'd like to help out as a writer for the Observer, contact me, or you can add them directly to our Campus Guide Tips and Tricks (a wiki). In one of the Second Life client updates a few weeks back, they added an option to your preferences to help you have some flexibility where you land when you ... more » »


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