reported by NMC Campus Calendar September 13th, 2011
Hello Everyone, Please join us on the UD islands for this special event National Agenda @UD Special Event: Constitution Day Joe Biden, Vice President of the United States & University of Delaware alumnus. Friday, September 16, 2011, @ 1:00 pm SLT http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/UD%20Imagination/50/43/26 The Vice President will deliver the inaugural James. R. Soles Lecture on the [...]
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published September 13th, 2011 at 06:29am
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reported by NMC Campus Calendar September 12th, 2011
Candy Crowley, CNN: National Agenda 2011 Girding for Battle @UD Broke… and Broken? Assessing the US Political Scene Wednesday, September 14, 2011 – 4:30 pm slt http://slurl.com/secondlife/University%20of%20Delaware/56/150/26 Please join us for our first off campus speaker for this year’s National Agenda, Candy Crowley of CNN. Crowley is among the most honored and respected political journalists [...]
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published September 12th, 2011 at 06:32am
Department(s): What's Happening
reported by NMC Campus Calendar September 12th, 2011
Candy Crowley, CNN: National Agenda 2011 Girding for Battle @UD Broke… and Broken? Assessing the US Political Scene Wednesday, September 14, 2011 – 4:30 pm slt http://slurl.com/secondlife/University%20of%20Delaware/56/150/26 Please join us for our first off campus speaker for this year’s National Agenda, Candy Crowley of CNN. Crowley is among the most honored and respected political journalists [...]
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published September 12th, 2011 at 06:32am
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reported by NMC Campus Calendar August 31st, 2011
Hello Everyone, Please join us for the first talk in our new fall 2011 National Agenda series, Girding for Battle. The National Agenda series is a mix of UD faculty and nationally known political movers and shakers. All talks will be live simulcasts on the UD island, every Wednesday, starting September 7, at 4:30 throughout the [...]
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published August 31st, 2011 at 08:18am
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reported by Metanomics June 8th, 2011
NMC Campus Observer Note… You can watch this Metanomics show live at Teaching (111, 113, 23) on NMC Campus
Teaching students how to build airplanes, robots and simulations is serious business, but Designing Digitally, Inc. plans to make it a game — literally. Join us for the Metanomics Community Forum on Thursday, June 9th at 12pm PDT/ SLT when Andrew Hughes of Designing Digitally updates us on his firm’s virtual activities. He claims that he is bringing a secret guest who has very real information on exactly how Designing Digitally gets things done.
Designing Digitally, Inc., the web-based training firm that specializes in E-learning, virtual worlds, and 3D simulations, was recently awarded a 2011 Air Force Virtual World contract from the United States Air Force Research Laboratory located in Dayton, Ohio. This means the simulation experts at Designing Digitally, Inc. will dedicate the next year to creating an OpenSim virtual world grid, called Virtual Discovery Lab (ViDL), in which high school and college students can explore these technical topics in a hands-on, educational environment.
“We are extremely honored to have been selected for this contract,” said Andrew Hughes, President of Designing Digitally, Inc. “It is going to be a fantastic and rewarding challenge to create the OpenSim virtual world infrastructure for United States Air Force Research Laboratory’s Discovery Lab.”
The contract award not only calls for Designing Digitally, Inc. to help create the Virtual Discovery Lab OpenSim virtual world grid, but also to work hands-on with students interested in the field over the summer at WPAFB Tec^Edge office. Students in the program are able to explore a number of areas of interest in an educational, hands-on setting that is challenging and fun.
Resources: http://www.designingdigitally.com/
You can join us in Second life for this event or watch it on our web site: www.Metanomics.net where it will be streamed live from the Studio.
SLurl: http://bit.ly/MCForum
PLEASE NOTE – MIXED TEXT AND VOICE SESSION: The Metanomics Community Forum is a mixed voice / text discussion session. Please feel free to participate in voice or in text, to your preference. The facilitator and some participants will be using voice, so you may wish to enable voice in your viewer so that you can hear the voice portions of the session. Thanks for joining us!
Questions: Jennette Forager, Metanomics Community Manager
Reach me at: jennfor@gmail.com
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published June 8th, 2011 at 09:16am
Department(s): Campus Headlines&What's Happening
reported by Metanomics June 1st, 2011
NMC Campus Observer Note… You can watch this Metanomics show live at Teaching (111, 113, 23) on NMC Campus
Educators have a special energy in the summer. Perhaps it is the freedom from classes, grading and being so adult. Summer is a great time for learning, exploring and yes, professional development but why choose something dry and serious. How about camp? And why not, GameCamp!
Project Lead Lisa Dawley, PH.D. has assembled an incredible team to guide campers at 3D GameLab’s first ever, GameCamp in August of 2011. Join us at the Metanomics Community Forum, this Thursday in Second Life to talk about the project and her concepts for using this format in education.
Lisa is Professor and Chair of the Department of Educational Technology at Boise State University. With over 20 years of experience in teacher education research, practice, and policy, Dawley provides innovative leadership in the design and pedagogy of virtual environments for teaching and learning. She is co-author of the Going Virtual! research series studying professional development for K-12 online teachers. Dawley received a Top 20 Bestselling Books Award for her text, The Tools for Successful Online Teaching. She is a co-inventor of 3D GameLab, a quest-based learning software, and she created EDTECH Island, a virtual world resource supporting international teacher education. Dawley is also co-founder and Chair of the Applied Research in Virtual Environments for Learning Special Interest Group (ARVEL SIG) affiliated with the American Educational Research Association (AERA).
From Lisa’s blog: “We are thrilled to finally announce the launch of the beta version of 3D GameLab, an online learning platform that lets teachers turn their classrooms into a living game! Chris Haskell and I have been developing and using the platform for over a year with a variety of students from teens to college graduate students. We’re really excited about our August summer camp, when we launch our new closed beta version platform, inviting in other teachers and instructional designers for the first time!
“For those of you who know me, I’ve been interested in using games and game-like environments in education for many years. I believe learning should be fun, joyful, something you’re excited to be involved with on a daily basis, something that excites your passion. Chris has really helped me understand that to create a game-based learning environment, you have to game it, you can’t “teach” it. In our camp last summer, we started exploring the development of a meta-game quest tracking tool, something that would allow our kids to choose quests and track their own achievements across a variety of games and learning experiences. 3D GameLab was born.
3D GameLab will grow and evolve in ways we can’t even imagine at this point. We built the tool, but the content will be evolved by the users of the system. I hope you can join us this summer, or at a future time, to explore new ways of thinking about learning in a digital era.”
You can join us in Second life for this event or watch it on our web site:www.Metanomics.net where it will be streamed live from the Studio.
SLurl: http://bit.ly/MCForum
PLEASE NOTE – MIXED TEXT AND VOICE SESSION: The Metanomics Community Forum is a mixed voice / text discussion session. Please feel free to participate in voice or in text, to your preference. The facilitator and some participants will be using voice, so you may wish to enable voice in your viewer so that you can hear the voice portions of the session. Thanks for joining us!
Questions: Jennette Forager, Metanomics Community Manager jennfor@gmail.com
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published June 1st, 2011 at 06:27pm
Department(s): Campus Headlines&What's Happening
reported by Metanomics May 26th, 2011
NMC Campus Observer Note… You can watch this Metanomics show live at Teaching (111, 113, 23) on NMC Campus
Today, the Metanomics Community Forum will re-visit the Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds 2011 conference which took place recently in Washington, DC. One day of workshops followed by two days of presentations from both government and the private sectors covered many topics and way streamed to a number of virtual platforms. The media stream that resulted continues a week later and we’ll look at how that affects the reach of an event.
Join us, Thursday at 12pm PDT in Second Life at the Metanomics Studio. Please feel free to post comments here with links to coverage that I may have missed.
Resources:
www.Metanomics.net
SLurl: http://bit.ly/MCForum
Storify with Links: http://storify.com/jennfor/mcf-federal-consortium-for-virtual-worlds-2011
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published May 26th, 2011 at 09:12am
Department(s): Campus Headlines&What's Happening
reported by NMC Campus Calendar May 16th, 2011
Come out to University Delaware Island on Wednesday, May 18 at 2 P.M. and listen to a brief presentation by Communication majors Droogan Quartz and Ewing1233. Their topic is on the importance of foreign journalism during elections and learning about the tactics regimes use to stay in power. The demonstration will be promptly followed by a [...]
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published May 16th, 2011 at 01:19pm
Department(s): What's Happening
reported by NMC Campus Calendar May 16th, 2011
Come out to University Delaware Island on Wednesday, May 18 at 2 P.M. and listen to a brief presentation by Communication majors Droogan Quartz and Ewing1233. Their topic is on the importance of foreign journalism during elections and learning about the tactics regimes use to stay in power. The demonstration will be promptly followed by a [...]
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published May 16th, 2011 at 07:15am
Department(s): What's Happening
reported by NMC Campus Calendar May 16th, 2011
Come out to University Delaware Island on Wednesday, May 18 at 2 P.M. and listen to a brief presentation by Communication majors Droogan Quartz and Ewing1233. Their topic is on the importance of foreign journalism during elections and learning about the tactics regimes use to stay in power. The demonstration will be promptly followed by a [...]
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published May 16th, 2011 at 07:15am
Department(s): What's Happening
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