http://sl.nmc.org News from our campus in Second Life Mon, 12 May 2008 01:26:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Come on over to the Babbage Amphitheater this Wednesday, May 14, as we have a live video screening of the videos created by students from University of Pennsylvania's 2008 Mashup Contest. Join me and my co-host Ninmah Ash, along with Anu Vella from UPenn, as we show all of ... http://sl.nmc.org/2008/05/11/2008-upenn-mashup-videos/ 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.” As children everywhere tap into the new digital playground through ... http://sl.nmc.org/2008/05/06/conney-center-symposium/ In May of 2007, the NMC conducted a survey of educators in Second Life, and learned much about the habits, interests, goals from the more than 200 responses to this first survey. These results are available for free under Creative Commons licenses. But given the continued expansion of educational places, events, ... http://sl.nmc.org/2008/05/05/educators-sl-survey/ On Friday April 25, NMC CEO Larry Johnson (or as we know him in Second Life, Larry Pixel) was a guest interviewee for the Metanomics series, the weekly live show that takes place in, and is broadcast live from Second Life. As part of an event atClever Zebra's vBusiness Expo, in ... http://sl.nmc.org/2008/05/05/metanomics-larry-johnson-2/ Join us on at 1:00 PM PT on Wednesday, May 7, for the opening of the new Second Life campus for the University of the Pacific. Meet at U Pacific (166,141,22) under the iconic replica of Burns Tower. "U Pacific" is a based on the real campus area around ... http://sl.nmc.org/2008/05/05/university-pacific/ Please join us in Second Life for a simulcast of Case Western Reserve University’s Collaboration Technology and Engaging the Campus 2008 Conference. They will be streaming live presentations, including a keynote address by Anthony Williams, co-author of Wikinomics. Mass Collaboration and the Future of Higher Education keynote by Anthony Williams When: May 8, ... http://sl.nmc.org/2008/05/05/case-collabtech08/ The weekly Metanomics show has been on a 35 week sprint marathon, with live shows each of the last 35 weeks, and is taking a breather in May.. but there are still things you can tune into. Every Monday and Tuesday, they will be showing rebroadcasts of the top interviews ... http://sl.nmc.org/2008/05/05/metanomics-may/ This Friday, April 25, will be a special Metanomics interview featuring the NMC's own, our CEO Larry Johnson (who is the real real avatar of Larry Pixel). Like all Metanomics sessions, this takes place somewhere in Second Life, but is live video streamed to the NMC location on Outreach. Robert Bloomfield ... http://sl.nmc.org/2008/04/23/metanomics-larry-johnson/ The real life avatar of Larry Pixel, known there as "Larry Johnson" was interviewed by the folks from Global Kids, as the first podcast for their new RezEd site, a site devoted being a hub for teaching and learning in virtual worlds. In the interview, Larry talks about his testimony to ... http://sl.nmc.org/2008/04/22/rezed/ In addition to the regular scheduled Metanomics session today at 11:00am PST on Experimental Economics in Virtual Worlds, there is a special event of interest to educators - at 2:00 PM PST join us also at Outreach on NMC Campus for a live event. Charles Nesson from Harvard will be ... http://sl.nmc.org/2008/04/07/metanomics-double-header/