NMC Campus Observer

An Invitation to Visit University of the Pacific

NMC Virtual Worlds : Sep 5, 2008 12:16pm

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 » »

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 » »