Archive for February, 2008
More on the NMC Initiative
28 Feb 2008I belong to an enormous listserv of educators in Second Life and have been following the discussions there regarding the NMC’s venture with Sun Microsystems. Some people are a little concerned this new platform may take the place of Second Life since many edu’s have made enormous investments in SL. The NMC is huge [...]
Exciting News from the NMC
In: Virtual Worlds
26 Feb 2008The New Media Consortium announced today that it is entering into a partnership with Sun Microsystems to form “The Virtual Worlds Project.” Here’s the best part:
In launching the Open Virtual Worlds project, the NMC will build on its extensive presence in Second Life and add to the services it offers educational institutions with a suite [...]
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Community Colleges in SL, Most recent list of.
In: Second Life
21 Feb 2008Please click on “Resources” to see a current list of Colleges who have declared their presence in SL. Not on the list? Email me at notmarian@gmail.com or leave a comment.
4-27-08: Update! The CCSL wiki has the most recent list. PLEASE add your College information! http://ccsl.wetpaint.com
CCSL Meets again!
21 Feb 2008The Community Colleges in SL group met again to talk about issues with some of our colleagues in IT being none-to-thrilled about our wanting to teach in virtual spaces. After much deliberation (and mutinous grumbling), we finally came to the conclusion that it is not so much that our IT people want to stop [...]
Mourning Students Near and Far
In: Safety
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NIU COD, originally uploaded by notmarian.
The College where I work is a sister school to NIU. Many of our students go there after they complete their first two [...]
Residency in Community College Librarianship
In: Librarianship
18 Feb 2008The College of DuPage is now taking applications for its next Resident Librarian! This program trains a recent MLS about the type of library they rarely learn about in grad school (sigh). I know this program is great because I was the first-ever CC Resident Librarian. (yes, I’m proud.) Read all about it [...]
Google Book Search Gadget for you.
In: Cool Tools| Libraries
17 Feb 2008Ok, so librarians get all twittery when they encounter masses of full text. Myself included. It doesn’t matter what kind of full text either: journal articles, research reports, newspaper articles and, of course, books. Though we love the fact that google is cranking out the e-books as fast as we can catalog them…there’s a big [...]
London Fashion Week
In: Second Life
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on/off London Fashion Week, originally uploaded by notmarian.
Here is a great opportunity for fashion design students to experience London Fashion Week’s OnOff event. This exhibition features both established [...]
Open Croquet
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Croquet, originally uploaded by notmarian.
Just attended a session on Croquet at the IOC 2008 conference. Mark McCahill (Duke) discussed this open source 3-D virtual environment for education.
Totally fascinating take [...]
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- Clara: I cannot believe this. I am sick of big research institutions getting the majority of funds leaving [...]
- Denise: Oh sorry, SocProf. You have to have Second Life on your computer to redirect to that link. Get Seco [...]
- SocProf: :-( Firefox does not know how to open the link. [...]
- Monk Zymurgy: I have to agree..Sita Sings the Blues is super great. I loved it so much, i watched it twice already [...]
- Denise: You watched it. You can't un-watch it! ha ha ha. [...]