CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jan 11, 2010 11:09pm
Through an IM from our pal Down Under, chief Jokaydian-- JoKay Wollongong (aka Jo Kay who is from Wollongong, the luckiest avatar name choice ever!)-- we enjoyed this fantastic video created by education.au's Immersive Learning Unit. What's great is that it includes excellent educational applications in several virtual worlds platforms (Second LIfe, Quest Atlantis and World of Warcraft) but also interviews and real videos of faculty and students engaged in the activities.
And w00t- if you look closely, you will identify ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Dec 7, 2009 10:35pm
On March 29-April 2, 2010, the University of Arkansas is offering a virtual workshop on Extensible Virtual Worlds. While it will take place within Second Life, the workshop is aiming broader to Virtual World platforms.
Today’s virtual worlds are mostly stand alone and not easily extended. This workshop will explore component technologies that can be leveraged to make a set of extensible virtual worlds. These extensible virtual worlds will need to be secure, easy to build, easy to create applications for, ... more » »
JS Saltwater (aka Joe Clark) :
Sep 27, 2009 08:36pm
Greetings, NMCers - it's been a while since I've posted anything here, but I have news of potential interest that I hope is appropriate to share here. I am researching the way Nature is represented in virtual worlds, and thought it might be worth blogging about my explorations & observations. At the moment, Virtually Natural just has a couple of inaugural posts to set the tone, which is a sort of David-Attenborough-wakes-up-in-Second-Life sort of thing. I hope you'll ... more » »
One of our NMC Virtual Worlds projects this year was construction of the virtual campus for the University of the Pacific which included a mixture of replication of campus structures, such as Burns Tower, and creation of new spaces which only exist on the virtual campus.
Since the ribbons were cut May 7, 2008, faculty and staff at the University have been busy using the space and developing new applications for therr virtual learning space.
They are inviting you to ... more » »
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 » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jul 9, 2008 06:05pm
The New Media Consortium (NMC) has announced the 2008 cohort of Virtual Learning Prize (VLP) awardees. The NMC Virtual Learning Prize, part of a $100,000 competitive program of awards, is intended to create a collection of innovative open-source learning experiences that make use of the unique attributes of a virtual learning environment.
The NMC Virtual Learning Prize is envisioned as a way to surface and realize creative ideas for how to make optimal use of a virtual setting, using ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jul 1, 2008 03:13pm
A bit of time has gone by since the 2008 NMC Summer Conference at Princeton, but we wanted to make sure we jotted a few notes on the closing plenary by Henry Jenkins- an inspirational presentation on What Would Herman Melville Say to Soulja Boy?: Remix Culture and the New Media.
This was not only taking place in a gorgeuos real world facility, Princeton's Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall, but was also live streamed to a remote audience gathered in the ... more » »
Larry Pixel (aka Larry Johnson) :
May 15, 2008 11:30pm
The New Media Consortium (NMC) announced today the call for proposals for the 2008-09 NMC Virtual Learning Prize, a $100,000 competitive program of awards intended to create a collection of innovative open-source learning experiences that make use of the unique attributes of a virtual learning environment. (See the press release.)
As many as 20 NMC Virtual Learning Prizes will be awarded in 2008. Each of the US$5,000 awards will provide a cash incentive paid to the awardee of ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
May 15, 2008 08:46pm
Look for two events coming up tied to the International Day for Sharing Life Stories, which is Friday, May 16, 2008. During the day, you can be in a Second Life story circle! Any group in SL can get self-organized and participate.
In each story circle, each teller will prompt the next teller the American Indian way, by handing him/her a talking stick.
Organize a group! Make sure at least one member has the talking stick, which anyone can ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
May 6, 2008 01:37pm
This Friday May 9, Global Kids is hosting a live event on NMC Campus at Teaching. The new Joan Ganz Cooney Center will be streaming their inaugural, invite-only symposium on “Logging into the Playground: How Digital Media are Shaping Children’s Learning.â€
As children everywhere tap into the new digital playground through gaming, mobile devices and the Internet, educators, researchers, policymakers and high-tech industry leaders are joining forces to examine how these latest technologies are shaping the education of today's children. Galvanizing ... more » »
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