Teachers Buzz Jan 8 2007 Transcript

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• January 8, 2007, 9:00 AM PST
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Ilene Pratt: The NMC has something they call Teacher's Buzz so educators can see what everyone's up to.

Dewey Jung: too bad the last name isn't "Bauhaus"

Corwin Carillon: hiya Ilene

Taliesin Balhaus: Thanks, Dewey. I did the best I could with Bauhaus

Dewey Jung: ilene, tell me quickly what NMC does

Ilene Pratt: You'll have to go look'em up - They are busy fostering the use of digital...whatever for teaching and learning.

Ilene Pratt: They've been big Second Life supporters when it comes to education and... my university is a member.

Dewey Jung: okay

Dewey Jung: i will look them up

Dewey Jung: so this meeting is......?

Ilene Pratt: A chance to look around at this relatively new facility.

Dewey Jung: hi CDB

Dewey Jung: cool

Corwin Carillon: hiya CDB

Dewey Jung: i am interested in facilities

CDB Barkley: Howdy folks

Dewey Jung: (for my own learning center)

Corwin Carillon: dewey, you ca look at http://www.nmc.org/about/more.shtml

Dewey Jung: thanks corwin

CDB Barkley: If you are talking about membership, etc in NMC email me alan@nmc.org

Ilene Pratt: I love SL - no zoning! You can have a learning center in your house.

Ilene Pratt: Yes, I'm Ilene Frank

Dewey Jung: well, ilene, it is zoned residential

CDB Barkley: Hi ilene

Dewey Jung: i don't aim to use it for commercial purposes

Dewey Jung: ony "informal education"

Ilene Pratt: Hi, CDB!

CDB Barkley: I'm on about a 0.5 boradband connection, so excuse me if I lag

CDB Barkley: Good morning

Ilene Pratt: Dewey, CBD Barkley and I are working on a preconference for something called the TCC Online conference.

Dewey Jung: TCC?

Khadijah Burali: Good morning, everyone

CDB Barkley: Online conference

CDB Barkley: http://tcc.kcc.hawaii.edu

Taliesin Balhaus: Good morning

Ilene Pratt: Yeah! That place!

WitchyRichy Witherspoon: Hi!

CDB Barkley: It's been around like 10+ years

Ilene Pratt: It turns out that both of us have worked with the TCC organizers for ages! Who knew?

CDB Barkley: Small world!

Dewey Jung: this is very cool

Dewey Jung: happy to be connected with you all

CDB Barkley: Likewise

Khadijah Burali: Same here.

CDB Barkley: We get a good crowd for these meetings

Khadijah Burali: I am going to use SL in my journalism class this semester. I'm always glad for teaching tips.

hardhat: Touched.

Enjay Ellison: greetings all.

Khadijah Burali: Hello Enjay

Dewey Jung: and I am going to use SL for teacher and librarian continuing education in chicago

CDB Barkley: Nice-- doing journalism in SL? reporting, etc

CDB Barkley: Wow, alot has changed here in a few weeks...

Khadijah Burali: Yes. I am trying to arrange press conferences with some of the news bureaus that are in SL

CDB Barkley: Is anyone here from Otis?

Enjay Ellison: 1/ao on

Khadijah Burali: By the way, have any of you been to the new Sim that the Congressional Democrats have set up?

CDB Barkley: I asked about doing this end of December...

Ilene Pratt: How were the Democrats doing?? I haven't been there yet.

Khadijah Burali: Yes. I thought I had missed it.

Khadijah Burali: There isn't much there yet.

Khadijah Burali: The build is nice, but you can't even get an updated list of planned events yet.

Kilgore Antelope: We play with legos a lot around here :)

Dewey Jung: everything takes time, even in sl

Khadijah Burali: But it may be worth watching for classes

Khadijah Burali: Yes, I'm sure it's quite an undertaking.

CDB Barkley: Very much so

Ilene Pratt: Maybe they'll ask SLers for opinions about Democratic policies. I've got some opinions they could have for free ;)

Dewey Jung: ilene, i'm sure you DO

CDB Barkley: How many folks are joining NMC Teachers Buzz for first time?

Belinda Brando: me

Dewey Jung: me

Taliesin Balhaus: I am

Dia Diqui: me

Kilgore Antelope: it's my first

Avril Scofield: two of us from France

WitchyRichy Witherspoon: This is my first time.

Dia Diqui: I'm from germany

CDB Barkley: Welcome, Bon Soir (best I can remember of french)

Avril Scofield: it's ok we're english speakers merci

CDB Barkley: We're just haning out til some Otis folks show up...

CDB Barkley: Hi heidi

Corwin Carillon: valentim is from Otis but seems to be afk right now

Troy McLuhan: Who else here has a plot on EduIsland?

CDB Barkley: Yes....

Heidi TeeCee: Hi CDB!

CDB Barkley: We can always do a bit of a walking tour

Porterhouse Dobbs: ..

Porterhouse Dobbs: Hello everybody

CDB Barkley: Ahh, Porterhouse is here

Webhead Link: hi all

Porterhouse Dobbs: Sue Mae, was going to be your host

Porterhouse Dobbs: But sadly she took ill this weeked

CDB Barkley: Yes, I arm twisted her- hope sh is ok

Porterhouse Dobbs: I just phoned her

CDB Barkley: No worries

Porterhouse Dobbs: Thanks

Porterhouse Dobbs: She'll be joining us in a couple of minutes

Dewey Jung: what an interesting group of people this is!!!

CDB Barkley: Porterhouse, you did much of the build here?

Porterhouse Dobbs: Yes

Porterhouse Dobbs: Paid to have fun!

Porterhouse Dobbs: Wow

Porterhouse Dobbs: You are a large groupe

Porterhouse Dobbs: I

Porterhouse Dobbs: SUe Mae

SueMaeLA Escape: hello eveyone

Corwin Carillon: hiya Sue mae

Craig Longully: How much time does it take to build something like this?

Khadijah Burali: Hello

Alexandria Knight: Hi

Enjay Ellison: Hi

Porterhouse Dobbs: Three weeks

CDB Barkley: What a great group!

Hugo Dalgleish is Online

SueMaeLA Escape: Porterhouse did most of the building

Porterhouse Dobbs: But we did a lot of revisions

SueMaeLA Escape: we collaborated

Porterhouse Dobbs: Colaboratively

SueMaeLA Escape: shall we walk through?

SueMaeLA Escape: or would you rather just ask questions here

CDB Barkley: Can you tell us first a bit about Otis?

CDB Barkley: And why you built?

SueMaeLA Escape: We built this space to use as a demonstration venue for faculty

SueMaeLA Escape: we want them to try SL and we felt they needed a space tht they would relate to

SueMaeLA Escape: We have several faculty now who plan to use SL in their classes ths spring

Craig Longully: I can see the use for that '1%' that have the skills and time, but what about the majority of faculty?

SueMaeLA Escape: We just taking one faculty at a time

SueMaeLA Escape: it's all just an experiment anywawy

Dewey Jung: can't do it any other way but one at a time

Smanning Lancaster: When you say you "built" it, how much does one need to know about programming to make that happen?

Porterhouse Dobbs: Not really much

Dewey Jung: mass adoption never works

Khadijah Burali: What kinds of things can faculty and students do here?

Troy McLuhan: In Sl, building doesn't mean programming - it means using the building tools

SueMaeLA Escape: WE'e only been in SL since summer

Porterhouse Dobbs: There is some scripting here, but all stuff I picked up for free

Dewey Jung: building is really easy in SL

SueMaeLA Escape: Porter really like the building part

Dewey Jung: like using a simple CAD program

CDB Barkley: Can you talk about the building design

Porterhouse Dobbs: Totaly

SueMaeLA Escape: so he foused on that

You cannot create objects here. The owner of this land does not allow it. Use the land tool to see land ownership.

Porterhouse Dobbs: Sue Mae, you take that

SueMaeLA Escape: The building resembles are real builig

SueMaeLA Escape: It was designed for IBM in the 1960s

Dewey Jung: where is the real bldg?

SueMaeLA Escape: remember those?

SueMaeLA Escape: to resemble a punch card

Ilene Pratt: I remember punch cards!

Dewey Jung: i do!

CDB Barkley: in high school

Alexandria Knight: Yes, me too

CDB Barkley: I used punch cards!

SueMaeLA Escape: we like to call it the crystal punch cared here because we could make it so much more transparent than in RL

Icabad Vallejo: what's the agenda today?

Webhead Link: me too (punch cards)

Jim Foxley: Don't talk about punch cards.. mmakes me feel old.

SueMaeLA Escape: what we have inside now is a gallery space

SueMaeLA Escape: we have work by faculty and students now

SueMaeLA Escape: we hope in future to have crated exhibitions

Ilene Pratt: Has anyone tried to get a class here to do critiques?

SueMaeLA Escape: maybe classes can do that

SueMaeLA Escape: out back we have a fire pit for meetings

Troy McLuhan: Can you tell us a bit about Otis College?

SueMaeLA Escape: to critque?

SueMaeLA Escape: Oits is a profession art and design college.

SueMaeLA Escape: we have majors in fine art, architecture, communications, fashion

Troy McLuhan: Wow - SL needs lots of people in those professions

SueMaeLA Escape: and interactive product desgn, toy design and digital media

CDB Barkley: Toy design! I ant to go to school!

Enjay Ellison: Do you intend to use the space mostly for display, or do you intend more active use as well?

SueMaeLA Escape: the Digital Storytelling class is the one most interested so far in SL

SueMaeLA Escape: Toy design is actually a lot like industrial design

Khadijah Burali: What kind of digital storytelling is done here?

SueMaeLA Escape: Storytelling is one of the things students really need to learn

SueMaeLA Escape: they are attracted to glitz, but it's really all about story

Khadijah Burali: As a writer, I certainly agree with that! (LOL)

SueMaeLA Escape: so there are several types of classes that work with students on it

SueMaeLA Escape: Digital stortelling is really a wrting class, but they uses the web and blogs, etc to make stories

Dewey Jung: we teach a course in that at my university too

Smanning Lancaster: But how does this environment help with that more than some other online methods?

Troy McLuhan: and using SL in the future?

Porterhouse Dobbs: One teacher is proposing that the student's avatar becomes their main character

Khadijah Burali: Perhaps we can have a discussion about our various approaches to that in another session?

Robins Hermano: We had one also, but created short movies

Taliesin Balhaus: Sorry to miss this conversation: Have an appointment in RL!

SueMaeLA Escape: I'm always fascinated by those commercials that can bring you to tears in 60 seconds!

Dewey Jung: robins, our approach too

Porterhouse Dobbs: Big baby

SueMaeLA Escape: That's storytlling!

Khadijah Burali: At my college, we have classes in interactive journalism, interactive storytelling, digital art and gaming

CDB Barkley: What a group! Shall we tour?

SueMaeLA Escape: Gaming is another possility for SL

Troy McLuhan: Okay

Craig Longully: yes

Dia Diqui: Okay

Khadijah Burali: Yes, please

Avril Scofield: yes

SueMaeLA Escape: we are working with Electriic Arts an the Sims this year

Porterhouse Dobbs: Good Idea

Khadijah Burali: Interesting!

SueMaeLA Escape: they are funding an exhibit of Otis students work in the summer with large prized

SueMaeLA Escape: so SL is not the main focus this semester

Khadijah Burali: Congratulations. Perhaps we can learn more as we tour.

SueMaeLA Escape: But when faculty see the difference, they are always more impressed with the potential here

Troy McLuhan: :)

Porterhouse Dobbs: Okay, everybody in the boat

Ilene Pratt: This is all student art work here, right?

Dewey Jung: what about badnwidth and crashing issues?

CDB Barkley: walk nicely

SueMaeLA Escape: This wall has examples of what is on exhibit in the RL gallery at Otis.

Roy Dowell: #911, 2005, acrylic on canvas

Porterhouse Dobbs: Feel free to touch the artwork

SueMaeLA Escape: the rest of the space on the first floor is faculty work.

Porterhouse Dobbs: They talk

Dewey Jung: wow, there are 39 people here!

Sheldon Forbes: Primary Urge, Prismacolor on paper

SueMaeLA Escape: are you taking pix?

Carol Caroompas: Psychedelic jungle: Are they ready to go home? 2004, acrylic on embroidery over panel.

Porterhouse Dobbs: yes

Pbear Petit: The large wood is terrific!

Michael Wright: Cowboy

Carol Caroompas: Psychedelic jungle: Are they ready to go home? 2004, acrylic on embroidery over panel.

Dewey Jung: things are rezzing VERY SLOWLY

Craig Longully: are these createed in sl or just imported images?

Carol Caroompas: Psychedelic jungle: Are they ready to go home? 2004, acrylic on embroidery over panel.

Porterhouse Dobbs: These are actual artworks

Porterhouse Dobbs: Many are for sale in the Real world

Khadijah Burali: excues me, Magda

Craig Longully: so they are scanned in?

Porterhouse Dobbs: I've wondered if we could sell digital pieces for inworld use

Troy McLuhan: Many galleries and stores sell art in SL

Robins Hermano: No reason why not

Porterhouse Dobbs: Facinating potential

Porterhouse Dobbs: lThis side of the gallery is Fine arts Alumni

Porterhouse Dobbs: Some have no attribution

Porterhouse Dobbs: Yet

Porterhouse Dobbs: A fabulous potential

Porterhouse Dobbs: Yes Magda

Porterhouse Dobbs: SL is a great place for a art School to play

Khadijah Burali: Did you have to get release forms from the artists to replicate the art here?

SueMaeLA Escape: I think when the digital media student get into SL, they will see potential to make money

Porterhouse Dobbs: All of the work here was released for use on the web

Carol Caroompas: Psychedelic jungle: Are they ready to go home? 2004, acrylic on embroidery over panel.

SueMaeLA Escape: We used art work that is already on out website

Porterhouse Dobbs: Some was brought to us by the artist themselves

Porterhouse Dobbs: If you look up, you'll see the glass floor of the upper gallery

Troy McLuhan: Some artists are beginning to create art that could only exist in SL

Porterhouse Dobbs: Not when it is used by permission like this stuff, I suspect

Khadijah Burali: That's interesting. Can you give us an example?

CDB Barkley: Yes, tryoy, especvially interactive sculptures

Catherine Chenille: I am working on a project to have RL face to face students in an art history class design exhibits in SL

Porterhouse Dobbs: Khadijan, example of what?

Porterhouse Dobbs: That sounds very interesting. How will it work?

Troy McLuhan: The SkyDancers are a great example of SL-native art

Khadijah Burali: An example of work on exhibit here that can't be created in the real world

CDB Barkley: And the math sculptures of Seifert Surface

Catherine Chenille: for ex. particular periods of art - with themes ex. DADA

Khadijah Burali: Okay, thanks.

Fashion Illustration: I want to rock your world

CDB Barkley: Check out http://ww.nmc.org/sl in the Art category

Porterhouse Dobbs: Nothing here, except the building, I suppose

Robins Hermano: Well photographic art, taking in SL comes to mind, I've seen some nice stuff exhibited, though where I can't remember

Carol Caroompas: Psychedelic jungle: Are they ready to go home? 2004, acrylic on embroidery over panel.

Porterhouse Dobbs: The toys upstairs are nothing more than toys we've collected inworld

CDB Barkley: There will be major art event Feb 2007 on NMC.... NMConnect -details coming out this week

Porterhouse Dobbs: Shall we go upstairs

Khadijah Burali: Yes, let's go upstairs.

CDB Barkley: ugh, dont like stairs!

Corwin Carillon: hiya angrybeth

Porterhouse Dobbs: This is work by undergrads

Porterhouse Dobbs: Except toys

Ambulance Mower: THey work really fast at OTIS ;)!

Fashion Campus: Downtown at the Calmart

Bella Yan: LOL

Porterhouse Dobbs: Ha ha

CDB Barkley: Where's the beachball?

SueMaeLA Escape: We left this space more open so that it would be better for meetings and classes

Lyr Lobo: Hello everyone *smiles*

Porterhouse Dobbs: The beach ball stopped working

Enjay Ellison: Hi Lyr!

Khadijah Burali: Hello Lyr

Corwin Carillon: hiya lyr

Magda Voss: are we on our way to the fire pit ?

Lyr Lobo grins

Alexandria Knight: How do you watch the video?

Lyr Lobo: fun video...

CDB Barkley: Hi Lyr

Porterhouse Dobbs: Turn on your movie control

Troy McLuhan: I can see Otis needing its own island soon. Everything they do is SOOO relevant to SL

Porterhouse Dobbs: You can set that in preferences under audio video

Catherine Chenille: cool!

Alexandria Knight: Thanks, just foudn it but am still not seeing video

Porterhouse Dobbs: Press the little triangle on the movie control

Alexandria Knight: Oh, thank you!

Robins Hermano: oops sorry

SueMaeLA Escape: There seems to be a lot of lag

Kilgore Antelope: hi lyr

Corwin Carillon: a lot of avs

Enjay Ellison: with this many people I'm not surprised

Fashion Illustration: I want to rock your world

SueMaeLA Escape: you can see this same video on the Oitis website

Khadijah Burali: Is there a maximum number of people that the sim can accommodate?

Alexandria Knight: Ok--thanks

CDB Barkley: We've had high as 70 on NMC- that's pushing it

CDB Barkley: On an owned island, you set a max

Khadijah Burali: Good to know. Thanks.

Porterhouse Dobbs: Has everyone had the chance to see the movie?

Icabad Vallejo: i see the video ok

Khadijah Burali: Yes, I saw it. Thank you.

Troy McLuhan: This sim's limit is currently set to 40

CDB Barkley: SL is not for big crowds ;-)

Webhead Link: where is the movie?

Icabad Vallejo: how big is the video, MB wise?

Smanning Lancaster: I still can't figure out the movie - how do I find it?

Porterhouse Dobbs: Shall we conclude at the beach?

Khadijah Burali: Sounds nice.

Porterhouse Dobbs: 9mb

Porterhouse Dobbs: I think

SueMaeLA Escape: i can send you a link to it on the website

Troy McLuhan: Where's the beach?

Icabad Vallejo: not bad

Icabad Vallejo: i like the music!

Porterhouse Dobbs: Follow me

Porterhouse Dobbs: Watch your step

Nadja Kaminski: hi dewey

Dewey Jung: this is quite a group, nadja

Dewey Jung: welcome

Icabad Vallejo: so by what arrangement does OTIS have property here?

Khadijah Burali: hi

Nadja Kaminski: hi everyone

Ilene Pratt: Hi Nadja!

SueMaeLA Escape: we rent land here

Nadja Kaminski: hi ilene

Dewey Jung: ilene, nadjua

Dewey Jung: nadja

Ilene Pratt: Pleased to meet you!

Icabad Vallejo: what's it cost you?

SueMaeLA Escape: we are paying $200 per year

SueMaeLA Escape: we have a collaborative management group

Khadijah Burali: That's not bad.

Nadja Kaminski: i finally got round to upload my rl pic on my profile

SueMaeLA Escape: just colleges and universities here

Dewey Jung: ilene, nadja is a student in london; ilene is a librarian at university of southern florida

Nadja Kaminski: i got a job on sl as a dancer...lol

Icabad Vallejo: well, i'll make a shameless plug for everyone who's interested to join the second life consortium of community colleges (SLC3)

Icabad Vallejo: My school JUST got our island friday after 2 months waiting, and will give the group a place there

Icabad Vallejo: would like to link all CC's, but of course all other ed. resources as well.

Porterhouse Dobbs: Kind of like a sculpture garden of avatars

Dewey Jung: icabad, what is your school

Icabad Vallejo: CPCC in charlotte

Ilene Pratt: Hi, Alexandria!

SueMaeLA Escape: The Otis video clips are located here: http://otis.edu/index.php?id=727 for anyone who wants to see them

Porterhouse Dobbs: ha, ha

Fashion Campus: Downtown at the Calmart

Nolligan Nino: have you had any coverage in the educational press regarding your work here?

SueMaeLA Escape: no coverage yet

Porterhouse Dobbs: We gave an interview

Nolligan Nino: I think it merits some coverage

Porterhouse Dobbs: Unpublished as of yet

Porterhouse Dobbs: Tanks noligan

Porterhouse Dobbs: Thanks

Khadijah Burali: Perhaps I can interest some of my journalism students who are interested in the arts.

Nolligan Nino: you're welcome - this is good work and is very much 'cutting edge' stuff

Troy McLuhan: I'm thrilled to see that Otis College is looking at SL. Every project in SL can benefit from good designers and artists

Porterhouse Dobbs: We have a creative writing Masters

Khadijah Burali: Thanks, Icabod. I will take your offer back to the people I work with.

SueMaeLA Escape: yes, i really hope that our students will get involved

SueMaeLA Escape: they could make great contributions

Porterhouse Dobbs: I'd like to see them take a look here

CDB Barkley: A very clean, elegant design

Porterhouse Dobbs: A good colaboration

Khadijah Burali: I'll put a field trip on my syllabus.'

Khadijah Burali: I wm at The Collegeof New Jersey

Porterhouse Dobbs: team

Nolligan Nino: yes there is alot of potential for creative writing

CDB Barkley: I dig the punch card design for a building!

Khadijah Burali: And I know that Khadijah was the first wife of the Mohammed

Porterhouse Dobbs: The architect was Noyes

Troy McLuhan: When it was built, punch cards probably symbolized the future

SueMaeLA Escape: this isn't exactly like our real building, but definately recognizable

Porterhouse Dobbs: And here we are

CDB Barkley: It need not be exact replicas, for sure

SueMaeLA Escape: most students have no idea about punch cards

CDB Barkley: And before that, there were "strings"

SueMaeLA Escape: we just wanted the reference to Otis

SueMaeLA Escape: it does make people feel like it IS Otis in SL

CDB Barkley: So for those here, any suggestions as to what we should do for future Teacher's Buzz Sessions?

Troy McLuhan: It's a great idea to have the familiar look of the Otis building. Other educators have said that having familiar objects and landmarks helped them convey how SL can be used

SueMaeLA Escape: I'm always interested in faculty presentations

Troy McLuhan: CDB, I'd love to have a buzz session about usind SL for digital storytelling

Khadijah Burali: Yes, please!

CDB Barkley: Yes, that would be cool

Okilele Pinkenba: Well a lot of people...

Heidi TeeCee: Yes, the Digital Storytelling would be interesting!

IBEAM Ball: porterhouse so dashing

Nolligan Nino: I agree

Porterhouse Dobbs: Hi Ibeam

CDB Barkley: I might see if we can Joe Lambert in here (Center for Digital Storytelling)

Porterhouse Dobbs: Thanks

SueMaeLA Escape: hi ibeam

SueMaeLA Escape: IBeam is one of the otis faculty members

IBEAM Ball: Hi Sue

Troy McLuhan: I think Ball State U has a digital storytelling initiative in SL as well

Enjay Ellison: I'd be interested in anything relating to environmental/exhibit/interpretive design.

Khadijah Burali: Hi IBEAM

Valentim Maverick: a ok

IBEAM Ball: Hl all

Lyr Lobo smiles in welcome

Khadijah Burali: This setting is great for storytelling in itself

IBEAM Ball: well this is Kool!!

Porterhouse Dobbs: Ibeam, love the stockings

Heidi TeeCee: I have to go ... thanks for the tour!

Dewey Jung: catherine, di you see my IMs

Lyr Lobo: bye Heidi *

Ilene Pratt: Me too - I have to go to work in Real Life. Thanks for the tour!

Ambulance Mower: How do you tell a story in SL?

Ambulance Mower: /mg suspend

Bella Yan: Thanks - it was fun getting to see what you're doing

SueMaeLA Escape: thanks for coming

Porterhouse Dobbs: Glad you could make the time

Troy McLuhan: There are lots of ways to tell a story in SL - hence the need to have a whole buzz session to discuss :)

SueMaeLA Escape: I'm actually at home coughing my head off

CDB Barkley: Yes,

Porterhouse Dobbs: You know Sue, you can detach your head here too

CDB Barkley: Bestm Sue, you are a trooper

Corwin Carillon: thanks Sue mae for the tour esp when you're not well

Khadijah Burali: I could envision sitting around a fire like this and just brainstorming a story the way many of us did at summer camp as children.

Boston Borst: hi Tetero. I'm fine. You?

Khadijah Burali: I hope you feel better soon, Sue.

SueMaeLA Escape: thanks

CDB Barkley: Another "advantage" of SL- you can be here when sick? ;-)

Wainbrave Bernal: SueMae, can I post a pic of this on the EduIsland.org page?

Troy McLuhan: One can use full 3D animations in SL to tell a story, with sounds, lighting, particle effects...

SueMaeLA Escape: it was fun to have you all here

Boston Borst: we're building our SL campus this semester.

SueMaeLA Escape: Wainbrave, yes

Porterhouse Dobbs: Do you have land yet?

Wainbrave Bernal: thanks!

Boston Borst: i feel like it's as much work as a physical move

Catherine Chenille: Well - I am trying to be more involved w/ librarians and also working on an art history project

SueMaeLA Escape: have you all looked around this island?

Khadijah Burali: What are you incorporating in your campus, Boston?

SueMaeLA Escape: there are some interesting things

Lyr Lobo: Welcome Farley *smiles*

CDB Barkley: Indeed, alot here

SueMaeLA Escape: especially the Hawaiian volcano!

Porterhouse Dobbs: I Love that site

Boston Borst: we're going to build a library and a classroom

Khadijah Burali: Sounds lovely!

Porterhouse Dobbs: Sounds fantastic

Boston Borst: OUr campus sits around the boston common. So, we're going to recreate that space - and transform the park into an exhibition space

AngryBeth Shortbread: I'm doing a module in Interactive Presentations, looking at Digital Storytelling ... Building stuff in SL as teaching material

Troy McLuhan: Oh, wow - I'd love to see the Boston common in SL!

Boston Borst: and an exhibition space for events - a theater space I suppose

Boston Borst: we should have it up by April - I hope

Porterhouse Dobbs: Angry beth, I'd love to hear more

Lyr Lobo: yes, Troy *grins*

Wainbrave Bernal: Angry, I'd like to see that!

Porterhouse Dobbs: As it is developed

CDB Barkley: Very cool, AngryBeth!

Lyr Lobo: I would too, AngryBeth

Khadijah Burali: Yes, and the theater space, too!

AngryBeth Shortbread: part of its up over at the Port sim

SueMaeLA Escape: me too, beth

CDB Barkley: Can we sign you up for a demo?

Enjay Ellison: Interesting, AngryBeth

Lyr Lobo grins and nods

CDB Barkley wishes

Lyr Lobo: we were at the Port again yesterday....always so much to do there

Khadijah Burali: Well, I should go back to writing syllabi. This has been most interesting. Congratulations and thanks to all involved.

CDB Barkley: Thanks again, SueMae and Porterhouse for a great tour

Troy McLuhan: Cheers!

SueMaeLA Escape: thanks for coming!

CDB Barkley: 6:00 PM PST

CDB Barkley: Next NMC Buzz in 2 weeks

Enjay Ellison: yes, thank you!

Khadijah Burali: What wil the next Buzz topic be?

CDB Barkley: Details to be posted at http://www.nmc.org/sl/

CDB Barkley: We're open!

Khadijah Burali: Okay

CDB Barkley: Might be a tour or an open discussion

Wainbrave Bernal: SueM, I know you're not feeling well - but may I have a moment?

Wainbrave Bernal: after this?

SueMaeLA Escape: sure

CDB Barkley: Thanks again for coming....

CDB Barkley: If you want to explore,s ee some of the other builds here in EduIsland

Catherine Chenille: Thanks CDB

Enjay Ellison: thanks all--bye for now

Dewey Jung: thank you everyone, this was GREAT

Jim Foxley: Really GREAT

Porterhouse Dobbs: Glad to see you all

Porterhouse Dobbs: Goodbye all.