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.