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NMC Announces $100,000 in Virtual Learning Prizes
Posted May 15th, 2008 by NMCThe 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.
Second Life Simulcasts from UD: Global Agenda and International Polar Year
Posted April 8th, 2008 by Paul HydeEvent Series: Global Agenda 2008 - International Politics of Climate Change
Title of Event: New Politics for New Weather
Guest Speaker: John Byrne - Climate/Energy Policy Nobel Laureate
Date and time: Wednesday April 9, 2008, 4:30 P.M. SLT
Location: University of Delaware island
http://slurl.com/secondlife/University%20of%20Delaware/141/227/30
NMC Launches Open Virtual Worlds Project
Posted February 24th, 2008 by Larry JohnsonToday the New Media Consortium (NMC) announced a $250,000 two-year collaboration with Sun Microsystems to launch the Open Virtual Worlds Project, an effort that is aimed at making it easier to learn, work, and exchange ideas in virtual space. The project will develop a range of standards-based, portable open-source educational spaces, content, and objects, and use them to extend Sun Microsystems’s open source Project Darkstar and Project Wonderland virtual world platforms.
NMC Symposium on Mashups - Call for Proposals is Open
Posted February 11th, 2008 by Nancy ReevesNMC Symposium on Mashups -- April 1 - 3, 2008
Call for Proposals is Open!
The call for proposals for the NMC Symposium on Mashups is open! This Symposium is the eleventh in the NMC's Series of Online Symposia and will take place April 1-3, 2008 in both 3D and flat web environments. The theme of this symposium draws from the 2008 Horizon Report and will focus on the topics of scholarly uses of mashups. The deadline for proposals is Monday, February 18.
White Paper on Mashups
Call for Proposals
Posted January 25th, 2008 by NMC
The Call for Proposals for the Symposium on Mashups is now closed.
Creative Commons Licensed Flickr photo by leobard.
Symposium Format and Topics
The sympsoium will be conducted both online in the virtual world of Second Life, as well as in the Adobe Connect web environment, with support from LearningTimes. Sessions conducted in Second Life will be streamed into Adobe Connect during the session time.
Sessions, which will be conducted live, can incorporate a variety of visuals and rich media, and are generally about 45 minutes in length, with about one-third to one-half that time devoted to dialog with participants using the chat and audio tools of the environment.
NMC Publishes Results of Educators in Second Life Survey
Posted October 4th, 2007 by Alan LevineThe New Media Consortium (NMC) is pleased to share the results of a Spring 2007 survey we conducted of educators who are participating in the virtual world of Second Life.
Sent out to members of the NMC, our in-world educational community, and the Second Life Educators Listserv (SLED) in May 2007, the survey represents the interests, activities, and demographics of more than 200 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.
We are making all of the results available as a summary document of all 42 questions and an Appendix with the listings of responses to the open ended questions.
- NMC 2007 Educators in Second Life Survey Results Summary [13pp, 1.3Mb PDF]
- NMC 2007 Educators in Second Life Survey Results Appendix [28pp, 496k PDF]
NMC Symposium on the Evolution of Communication
Posted October 4th, 2007 by NMCSymposium on the Evolution of Communication
December 4-5, 2007
NMC Conference Center in Second Life
SimU 2007 Conference a Success
Posted September 8th, 2007 by Tom HapgoodSimU 2007 was an amazing success. We had great presentations from Judd Ruggill and Ken McAllister of the University of Arizona and the Learning Games Initiative , Jason and Sunny Cerchie of Electric Sheep Company and Ian Bogost and Ken Knoespel from Georgia Tech. Thanks also to the student panelists: Troy Long, Drew Avery, Suzanne Ownbey and Quinten Rezin. Photos of the conference can be seen here , or view the 6-hours of archived video footage here .
NMC Second Life Web Video Jukebox
Posted July 27th, 2007 by Alan LevineThis NMC Second Life video "jukebox" uses a new web tool called vodpod to assemble a dynamic collection of related videos:
About The Symposium
Posted July 2nd, 2007 by NMC
In August 2007, the NMC held a very special, one-of-a-kind event -- a week-long online symposium on the topic of creativity called the Symposium on Creativity in Second Life. The first in a series of conferences and events exploring virtual worlds of all kinds, the symposium was intended to redefine the way we think about online conferences.
As such, the Symposium on Creativity was held entirely inside the virtual world of Second Life, and made full use of the wide range of affordances offered within this virtual world.
