Archive for the ‘Second Life’ Category
Getting a Second Life Account!
10 Apr 2008Here’s a video I did with the excellent multimedia services television super heros at my college. It was made for the Soaring to Excellence teleconference tomorrow. The teleconference, Trends, Fads or Folly: Spotting the Trends that Really Matter looks at virtual worlds, folksonomies and new ways of reading. Lori Bell and Tom Peters are presenting. [...]
State and Local Agencies Train in Virtual Worlds
In: Safety| Second Life| Virtual Worlds
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Play2Train , originally uploaded by notmarian.
It seems that state and local agencies are trying out virtual worlds like Second Life to prepare for emergencies. There’s Play2Train’s build for the [...]
A little video
12 Mar 2008I made this little video for a presentation I did today. Avatars, you know who you are!
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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- 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. [...]
- SocProf: Wow... these are 9 minutes of my life I'll never get back! :-) [...]