Fifteen students from Case Western Reserve University will present their digital stories on Friday, November 30th and Tuesday, December 4th in Second Life on the ClevelandPlus Island. These projects represent a semester-long effort in writing, recording, creating and producing personal digital stories.
The presentations are the culminating experience of a writing intensive seminar entitled “Digital Storytelling: Creating Meaning with Sight, Sound & Language”. Students will be in Second Life alongside their digital stories explaining what they did, how they did it and its educational value.
When: Friday, November 30th 7:30am - 10:00am SLT/PST (check local time) and 12:00pm - 2:00pm SLT/PST (check local time) and Tuesday, December 4th 11:00am – 1:00pm SLT/PST (check local time)
Where: ClevelandPlus (121, 21, 35)
The digital stories will remain up through December 7, 2007.
Friday, November 30, 2007
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Case's Virtual Worlds Lab in Second Life
In case you didn't know, Case Western Reserve University created a very accurate replica of the Virtual Worlds Lab located in the Olin Building...in real life... inside the Kelvin Smith Library on our Second Life campus. The purpose of this recreation is to help prospective students get a better sense of what CWRU might have to offer them without actually visiting campus.
You might want to listen to Dr. Marc Buchner, Director of the Virtual World Lab discuss the reasons for the build.
Here are a few images from within Second Life
Come see it in Second Life at http://slurl.com/secondlife/ClevelandPlus/181/150/37
You might want to listen to Dr. Marc Buchner, Director of the Virtual World Lab discuss the reasons for the build.
Here are a few images from within Second Life
Come see it in Second Life at http://slurl.com/secondlife/ClevelandPlus/181/150/37
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Showing Off Our Showcase
For those around the world who did not get to attend Case’s Faculty Technology Showcase in person in the Thwing Ballroom last Tuesday we held the Showcase in Second Life. NMC kindly promoted the event for us. We were pleased and to be honest a little surprised at how many avatars were able to join us in ClevelandPlus.
Susanne Patrono ( Sue Shick’s avatar) reports that she spoke with many avatars from across the country… mostly from higher ed institutes, although some of the avatars appeared to have stumbled upon the event becuase we opened the island for “Public Access” during the Showcase.
We do not have Thwing Center built out on ClevelandPlus, but we do have Adelbert Hall.
On the second floor of Adelbert(SL) is a beautiful, large area created for events like these. So we recreated the layout from Thwing Ballroom on the second floor of Adelbert. For me the most interesting part of the event in Second Life was the simulcast of the faculty presentations and of course the Keynote by Dr. Lev Gonick.
At some points during the day we even had more avatars in second life watching the presentation then we did in real life. The speakers were even able to take questions from the avatar attendees.
We learned a lot about hosting an event like this... in real life as well as Second Life and want to make the Faculty Technology Showcase an annual event. Next year we want to have faculty participants come in to Second Life so they can discuss their posters and presentations with avatar attendees.
Susanne Patrono ( Sue Shick’s avatar) reports that she spoke with many avatars from across the country… mostly from higher ed institutes, although some of the avatars appeared to have stumbled upon the event becuase we opened the island for “Public Access” during the Showcase.
We do not have Thwing Center built out on ClevelandPlus, but we do have Adelbert Hall.
On the second floor of Adelbert(SL) is a beautiful, large area created for events like these. So we recreated the layout from Thwing Ballroom on the second floor of Adelbert. For me the most interesting part of the event in Second Life was the simulcast of the faculty presentations and of course the Keynote by Dr. Lev Gonick.
At some points during the day we even had more avatars in second life watching the presentation then we did in real life. The speakers were even able to take questions from the avatar attendees.
We learned a lot about hosting an event like this... in real life as well as Second Life and want to make the Faculty Technology Showcase an annual event. Next year we want to have faculty participants come in to Second Life so they can discuss their posters and presentations with avatar attendees.
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