NMC and Member News

The University of Texas at Austin's Division of Instructional Innovation and Assessment (DIIA) will be hosting the IT Showcase on the Austin campus on May 28th. It will highlight Instructional Technology projects from across the campus and offers IT groups a chance to mix and mingle, to share information and see each other's projects in an informal open house event. For an idea of some of the projects that will be showcased please visit this link.

Cheers,

Keene Haywood, New Media Manager, DIIA

The University of Texas at Austin

Please join us in-world for Global Agenda from the University of Delaware --the last session for this semester.

Event: Global Agenda: Implications for U.S. National Security

Guest Speaker: Maj. Gen. Richard L. Engel

Date & time: Wednesday May 14 - 7:30PM et. (4:30 SLT)
Location: http://slurl.com/secondlife/University%20of%20Delaware/142/228/30

Deputy U.S. National Intelligence Officer for Science and Technology, Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

He is engaged in a top-level national review of the implications of climate change issues for defense and national security of the united states. He has served as a senior military analyst for the CIA in the area of transnational issues.

For more info: http://www.udel.edu/global

In each story circle, each teller will prompt the next teller the American Indian way, by handing her a talking stick.

As announced here before, on Saturday May 17 at 10 AM PDT the Center for Digital Storytelling (CDS) is proposing a reflection on storytelling in virtual environments in the form of a panel in Second Life. This will be part of the celebration of the International Day for Sharing Life Stories which will have happened the day before, May 16.

We added one person to our excellent line-up of speakers: Dale Jarvis, storyteller, folklorist and performer will be in-world - and in Canada in RL. Other speakers logging in from Spain, China, New Zealand and the US, and covering areas from multimedia journalism to virtual performance.

Joe Lambert (Director, Center for Digital Storytelling) and Ana Boa-Ventura (PhD Candidate, University of Texas at Austin) will be moderating.

Come join us!

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Panel in Second Life | Storytelling in virtual environments

Date: May 17, 2008
Time: 10:00 AM PDT (Check http://www.worldtimezone.com for local times)

The University of Lugano is launching a new distance learning program, TEC-CH Online (Online Diploma of Advanced Studies in Technology-Enhanced Communication for Cultural Heritage).

The programmer offers to practitioners and/or graduates in the Cultural Heritage field a solid background in communication enhanced by the use of modern information technologies. TEC-CH Online us based upon the experience of the Master in Science TEC-CH (on-site programme started in Lugano in 2004) and will be launched in the Fall of 2008.

The University is offering prospective participants an opportunity to sample the courses with a free trial. This Pre-opening offer includes 6 selected courses that run between April and July 2008.

Event Series: Global Agenda 2008 - International Politics of Climate Change
Title of Event: Achieving Energy Security Through Sound Public Policy

Guest Speaker: John Hofmeirster - President, Shell Oil
Date: Wednesday May 7, 2008
Time: 4:30 slt
Location: University of Delaware, stadium entrance (138, 226, 29)
or http://slurl.com/secondlife/University%20of%20Delaware/221/215/33

Event Information:
Staving off global warming depends on reducing carbon emissions into the atmosphere. But those emissions come, in large part, from the transportation sector of the industrial world’s economy, and from manufacturing and production industries which rely on petroleum products for fuel.

Join us on at 1:00 PM PT on Wednesday, May 6, for the opening of the new Second Life campus for the University of the Pacific. Meet at U Pacific (166,141,22) under the iconic replica of Burns Tower.

"U Pacific" is a based on the real campus area around Burns Tower. For those at the university, you can meet at Pacific Theater for a live demonstration and virtual ribbon cutting of the Pacific campus. Elizabeth Griego will officiate the ceremony. For all attendees, a virtual dance party with live DJ will follow.