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Virtual Worlds Project

Posted February 1st, 2007 by NMC
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Gateway / overview page for NMC Virtual worlds project- links and feeds from http://virtualworlds.nmc.org/

use feeds from Flickr stream on sidebar, del.iciou.us resources, news headlines marked in Google reader. 

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Special ZeroG Skydancers Performance: "Let Love Live (L3)"

Posted March 19th, 2009 by Alan Levine
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L3

Symposium participants are invited to a special live ZeroG SkyDancers production entitled "Let Love Live" (L3) by DC Spensley AKA DanCoyote Antonelli, that will take place Wednesday, March 25, at 7:00PM PST. Seating is limited to 30 avatars, so if you are registered for the conference, return to your online registrations and edit the one for the New Media & Learning Symposium. Be sure to check the box under Special events to reserve your spot (and make sure we have your avatar name too). An hour before showtime, you will be offered a teleport to the venue. This event is free for registered Syposium participants.

Angela Thomas and Virtual Macbeth NMC Conversation #10

Posted December 10th, 2008 by Alan Levine
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In this NMC Conversation we are transglobal! Larry (in Texas), Rachel (in California), and Alan (temporarily in Iceland) talk with Angela Thomas in Sydney, Australia. Angela, a senior lecturer in English Arts and New Media Literacies at the University of Sydney. The NMC and Angela have collaborated numerous times since first meeting her in Second Life back in 2006, and she has presented several times at our Second Life conferences as well as being a featured speaker at the 2006 NMC Summer Conference.

See Also: http://web.nmc.org/conversations/2008/12/10/number-10/

2008 NMC Educators in Second Life Survey

Posted November 26th, 2008 by Alan Levine
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2007 NMC Second Life Survey Sent out to members of the NMC, our in-world educational community, and the Second Life Educators Listserv (SLED) in May 2008, this survey represents the interests, activities, and demographics of more than 350 educators. Overall, the results reflect the highly social interaction of Second Life and how educators have formed and contribute to a vibrant community in this virtual world space.

Download 2008 Educators in Second Life Survey Results Summary (52k Mb, 2 pp)
Download 2008 Educators in Second Life Survey Results (308 kb, 10 pp) Creative Commons license; some rights reserved
1,033 downloads as of August 22 2011

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University of Texas Austin Invites You to Second Life for “An Evening With The Honorable Madeleine K. Albright”

Posted September 8th, 2008 by Alan Levine
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The LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin will welcome former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright to help launch the School’s new Master of Global Policy Studies (MGPS) degree on Wednesday evening, September 10 at the Lyndon B. Johnson Library in Austin, Texas.

Invitation to visit University of Pacific in Second Life

Posted September 5th, 2008 by Alan Levine
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One of the 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.

Burns Tower in SL

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 learn more about their Second Life campus and how it has already been put to use in this new machinima video:

Virtual Learning Prizes Awarded

Posted July 9th, 2008 by Alan Levine
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The New Media Consortium (NMC) has announced the 2008 cohort of Virtual Learning Prize (VLP) awardees. The NMC Virtual Learning Prize, part of a $100,000 competitive program of awards, is intended to create a collection of innovative open-source learning experiences that make use of the unique attributes of a virtual learning environment.

The NMC Virtual Learning Prize is envisioned as a way to surface and realize creative ideas for how to make optimal use of a virtual setting, using a process that provides recognition, financial incentives, professional development services, and a return for education as a whole.

NMC Announces $100,000 in Virtual Learning Prizes

Posted May 15th, 2008 by NMC
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The New Media Consortium (NMC) announced today the call for proposals for the 2008-09 NMC Virtual Learning Prize, a $100,000 competitive program of awards intended to create a collection of innovative open-source learning experiences that make use of the unique attributes of a virtual learning environment. (See the press release.)

As many as 20 NMC Virtual Learning Prizes will be awarded in 2008. Each of the US$5,000 awards will provide a cash incentive paid to the awardee of $500 as well as $4,500 in expert development assistance from the NMC Virtual Worlds team to create the learning experience. The range of inworld services available to awardees to actualize the proposed ideas includes professional building, scripting, design, animation, avatar design, and/or related services.

NMC Virtual Learning Prize

Posted May 14th, 2008 by NMC
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The NMC Virtual Learning Prize is a $100,000 competitive program of awards intended to create a collection of innovative open-source learning experiences that make use of the unique attributes of a virtual learning environment. As many as 20 NMC Virtual Learning Prizes will be awarded in 2008. (See Press Release )

Each of the US$5,000 awards will provide a cash incentive paid to the awardee of $500 as well as $4,500 in expert development assistance from the NMC Virtual Worlds team to create the learning experience. The range of in-world services available to awardees to actualize the proposed ideas includes professional building, scripting, design, animation, avatar design, and/or related services.

NMC CEO Larry Johnson Metanomics Interview

Posted May 5th, 2008 by Alan Levine
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On Friday April 25, NMC CEO Larry Johnson was a guest interviewee for the Metanomics series, the weekly live show that takes place in, and is broadcast live from Second Life.

As part of an event atClever Zebra's vBusiness Expo, in this interview, Metanomics host Robert Bloomfield asked Larry about the NMC's Virtual worlds programs and then discussed more on Larry's recent experience testifying before the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet of the US Congress.

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You can also find an audio recording of this interview plus soon a transcript, at http://metanomics.net/larry-johnson

See Also: http://metanomics.net/larry-johnson
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