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NMC Symposium for the Future in Second Life

21 Oct Filed under 3D, Education. No comments.

2009 Sym­po­sium for the Future IT is time for another Vir­tual Sym­posia by the NMC (New Media Con­sor­tium). The sym­po­sium will com­pose of sev­eral diologs on push­ing the enve­lope of tech­nol­ogy and the poten­tial impacts on issues of global sig­nif­i­cance. Specif­i­cally the top­ics will cover … Read More →

Second Life College Fair

20 Oct Filed under Education. 2 Comments.

Octo­ber 24th and 25th: This is great net­work­ing oppor­tu­nity for stu­dents and col­lege rep­re­sen­ta­tives to meet in Sec­ond Life to exchange infor­ma­tion, pro­mote a school, and cre­ate con­nec­tions. It will be orga­nized like a tra­di­tional col­lege fair with booths and tables for the var­i­ous col­leges. Above being able … Read More →

Experimenting with Blender Software

Sculpty: with or with out salt? Using Blender

14 Aug Filed under 3D, Building Tools, Buy it, Education. No comments.

As I have com­plained about before, I find myself get­ting more and more aggre­vated with build­ing the FIT cam­pus. I have torn down so many build­ings and amphithe­aters try­ing to find the sweet spot between func­tion and design. Many of the edu­ca­tional sites are great in offer­ing free­bies … Read More →

image courtesy of siggraph.org (http://www.siggraph.org/s2009/galleries_experiences/emerging_technologies/details/?type=etech&id=143)

Virtual World Floors? Watch where you step!

10 Aug Filed under 3D, Building Tools, Education. No comments.

I have been try­ing to fol­low the feeds com­ing out of the SIGGRAPH 2009 con­fer­ence and came across a post dis­cussing a sur­face devel­oped that can be walked on to sim­u­late var­i­ous ground con­di­tions like ice or leaves. The visual and audi­tory feed­back seem to be enough … Read More →

e-textbook anyone?

10 Aug Filed under Education. No comments.

I am pass­ing on this post by Keene Hay­wood through the New Media Con­sor­tium. The New York Times ran an arti­cle on Sat­ur­day dis­cussing an ini­tia­tive called Beyond Text­booksthat com­bines web-based tools with cur­ricu­lum. The arti­cle quotes a Dr. Abshire, Chief Tech­nol­ogy Offi­cer for the Cal­casieu … Read More →

Pleasure and Pain — Building a SL Campus

2 Aug Filed under Education, Fashion Institute of Technology. No comments.

Incor­po­rat­ing vir­tual worlds into tra­di­tional edu­ca­tional envi­ron­ments has been under the radar at the col­lege that I work for. To be hon­est it has been avoided because it is so dif­fi­cult to pro­vide Admin­is­tra­tors with the pre­cious “met­rics” needed to gain sup­port and funding. I just … Read More →

Second Life in 3D!!

1 Jun Filed under 3D, Education. No comments.

The Uni­ver­sity of Michi­gan 3D Lab  has devel­oped a Sec­ond Life viewer with stero­scopic sup­port.  This allows the viewer to see SL objects in 3D!!!! Wow.  The viewer has not yet been made pub­lic, but I know I’ll be line to check it out.  The lab offers … Read More →

Students enjoying the show

FIT Photography BFA show in SL

24 May Filed under Education, Fashion Institute of Technology. No comments.

I wanted to con­grat­u­late Mar­duk Hag­g­wood for putting together the FIT BFA show for Pho­tog­ra­phy.  This was the sec­ond show that Mar­duk over­saw and I am really look­ing for­ward to work­ing with him on devel­op­ing the new FIT parcels. The stu­dents had a great time, many in SL … Read More →