Teachers Buzz Session 2007 Archive

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Summaries and records from the NMC Campus Teacher's Buzz Session meetings held in 2007.


  • Dec 10 6pm PST (check local time) Nursing Ed SIM (NESIM) demo with padlurowncanoe Dibou
    • John Miller (JS Vavoom), a nursing instructor from Tacoma Community College, and Cathy Walker (padlurowncanoe Dibou), an educational technology director from St. Vincent de Paul, will present NESIM OR, a 3-D simulator that uses the online virtual reality network of Second Life to practice diagnosing and treating patients in a simulated emergency department environment. It is currently being used to instruct nursing students at Tacoma Community College.

      John and Cathy are two of the four members of the VESIM group - Virtual Educaton Simulations - that create interactive learning simulations for virtual worlds. The other members are David Bodily, Western Wyoming Community College, and Kim Winnington, CEO of Sand Castle Studios. They will also be available to answer your questions.
  • Nov 26 4pm PST/SLT Mon 26 Nov Millennial students and SL. Jatt Writer (aka Jan Morrison, Washoe County School District, Reno, Nevada Staand Federal Programs Dept. Project Director) led a discussion with some 28 avatars on the topic of milliennial students and SL. "As teachers in SL are we optimizing the learning journey of our Millennial students? What relationship do the Millennial Generation's skills and attributes have to education on a global scale? Join in on a discussion of how teaching in SL and the work of Peter Senge, concerning the creative and fundamentally different learning styles of the Millennial Generation, impacts education."
  • Nov 12 6:00pm SLT at GCCAz Island with Glendale Community College's SL Campus Group, The Pixels and the Chemistry to Bring It All Together: The group shared how their “SLers” group came together, how they managed their island for campus, faculty and student use and how they are using their island for education. They also debuted and shared a tool for measuring usage on the island. Developed “in-house,” this tool tracks avatars and displays their time spent numerically and also on a hot spot map. Great for documenting usage and justifying an island purchase to reluctant administrators. Over 35 avatars joined us for a casual evening discussing these topics and more at GCCAz."
  • Oct 29 6:00pm Halloween at the British Gothic Lit Classroom hosted by Desideria Stockton and Eloise Pasteur. Join us for a costume contest and an exploration activity to see who can find the mysterious red cauldron. We also have a stuffed turkey hunt for those who dont like costumes or Halloween.
  • September 17 6:00pm - Aurili Oh (Suzanne Aurilio), Assistant Director, pICT People, Information and Communication Technologies San Diego State University, PLORK: Adults at play and work: A Collective Reflection Whether you’re a newbie or a seasoned resident, you’ve probably noticed that Second Life is a bundle of plork. Aurili led a lively discussion on our experiences and observations of others’ experiences learning in and about Second Life.
  • Sep 4 (Tue) 9am SLT/PDT Hackshaven Harford, the project manager for NOAA’s virtual operations worked in conjunction with Aimee Weber Studios, discussed his work with NOAA in creating the sims being toured as part of this NMC Teacher’s Buzz and also his SL metrics and analytics company called Maya Realities (http://www.mayarealities.com/). Hackshaven gave everyone a quick briefinf and then took us on an exciting tour of various spaces in NOAA including a live demo of the avatar heat map! Very cool work on NOAA and the Maya Realities analytics!
  • Aug 20 6pm SLT/PDT "student built" project: Timeline of the History of Earth and Life on Earth Walking Exhibit, created at University of Arizona. Ourania Fizgig and Alan Myhre took us through The History of Earth & Life on Earth Exhibit, created as part of a non-major undergraduate intro-astrobiology course, Exploring Life in the Universe. Students in the ASTR202 (spring 2007) class helped to design and build a scale model installation work on the timeline of Earth, 4.6 billion years ago to the present. Embedded in this timeline are important landmark events in planet formation, geology, biology, and anthropology. Ourania told us about the awesome things that happened, the areas where they had challenges and where its going now! We then walked through the tour of the major timeline areas in a free roam of the exhibit. Questions came thick and fast and we look forward to seeing this student build develop further with subsequent cohorts and Ourania's plans. The exhibit is still open at LivingintheUniverse (30, 190, 251). SLURL: http://tinyurl.com/3awb3r
  • Aug 6 7am SLT/PDT - Australian educators Jo and Sean provided an overview of their recent projects, including newbies' resources, support materials they are developing to assist teachers entering Second Life, and a resource on Educational Uses of Second Life. The tour finished with a visit to a virtual hairdressing salon - an example of how Second Life photostories and roleplays can be used in vocational training.
  • July 23 9am SLT/PDT Jul 23 9am PDT - Avatars and Appearance: What's your 'dress code'? - An incredibly vibrant and open discussion around avatars, appearance and identity with 38 avatars participating.
  • July 9 at 8pm SLT/PDT (also July 8 at 5pm SLT/PDT) Give Education a Second Life Educators and other life-long learners discussed how we can make a difference in education. The dynamic evening of discussion and reflection involved K12, Higher Ed and Corporate educators wanting to give education a second life. The focus was on learning and empowering educators of all ages to give learners meaningful experiences through choice.
  • Jun 7 11:45am PDT - Special session live at the 2007 NMC Summer Conference - live audio from Anya Ixchel (Angela Thomas) presentation on "Pleasure, Play, Participation and Promise: Socio-emotional Dimensions of Digital Culture Which are Transforming the Shape of New Media Literacies"
  • May 14, 9am PDT Meetup with educator Blogsar Lumpen, or as more widely known in the educational technology field, Will Richardson. Relatively new to Second Life, Will involved us in a very active discussion on how educators are approaching SL, and how to best explain it so it makes sense. The teachers Buzz group met up on Teaching 3 (121, 147, 24)
  • May 7, 2007 9am PDT Special Buzz Session! Hosts RuArt Semaphore and Magda Voss help us welcome Prof. Michael Connors and the virtual design team at UW-Madison to learn about work with Digital Printmaking students in Second Life.
  • Apr 30, 2007 6pm Session Researching in Second Life: KJ Hax, Victoria Gloucester and Clare Lane. KJ received a grant from Walden University to research best teaching and learning practices in SL with former MSEd student, Clare. Victoria has been working in SL since the fall of 2006 and is currently doing her doctoral research on learning communities here. They talked about what they have learned so far from their exploration of the main and teen grids to date.
  • Apr 16, 2007 9am Session: Due to our own mixup, we announced two different times for a meeting! Or morning group engaged in a ranging open discussion of teaching in SL:
  • Apr 16, 2007 6pm Session: Learning Communities Start Here: We have a rich faculty community in SL; do we work together to foster a global learning community, or do we recreate the wheels of learning by duplicating services? This was a special Buzz session at the Dreams Festival in Second Life with Desideria Stockton (Beth Ritter-Guth). Beth led us through a discussion around forming a global learning community in SL to share our experiences and synergize our strengths.
  • Mar 19, 2007: Jeremy Braver, aka, Jeremy Koester, graduate student in Instructional Technology at University of Texas in San Antonio talked about some ideas and educational uses of gaming in SL with a small-group Maths activity.
  • Mar 5, 2007: Kisa Naumova on Web/SL Integration, including the flickr display screen, SL to Twitter script demo, and "try and spin something around SL as a development platform in its early stages, that's ripe for play - rather than an environment you can pick off the shelf and bolt onto your teaching."


  • Feb 19, 2007 (6.00 PM PST) -- Digital Storytelling Part Deux. Following the big discussion on Feb 5, we continued again talking about storytelling, with help from Troy McLuhan



  • Jan 22, 2007 (6.00 PM PST) -- Field Trip: Bryan Carter/Mnemonic: Composition classes on Glidden


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