Archive for August, 2007

go virtual 07

27, Aug 2007

Jokay Wollongong announces another big Second Life event.
http://www.nswlearnscope.com/go-virtual-07

Go Virtual 07! is set to be an exciting day of sharing and exploring this cutting edge domain – with participants invited to engage in both presentations and hands-on workshops in both Second Life and Adobe Connect during the event. Don’t forget to pack your laptop!!
Also planned are [...]

NXTGEN ICT – ECAWA Conference

27, Aug 2007

I gave my presentation here on Saturday morning – immediately after Lindy McKeown’s keynote. Between the two presentations we had several overlaps – not surprising considering the similarity of our work in Second Life.
Online Sites for Generative Play

This paper proposes an alternative concept for thinking about engagement in online environments as a form [...]

Education in Virtual Worlds Workshop

26, Aug 2007

On Aug 22, 9:30 (Singapore time) Aaron Delwiche of Metaversality, Grace Lim of Temasek Polytechnic, Scot Osterweil of MIT, and Catherine Bracy and Gene Koo from Harvard hosted a workshop at the State of Play Conference in Singapore.

Part of the conference was convened inworld at Berkman (run by Harvard Law) in Second Life. Avatars [...]

SLOZ interview

24, Aug 2007

Lowell Cremorne took some time out to organise an email interview with me recently – the results are at SLOZ – Australia’s Second Life News Source.

Our NMC workshop

19, Aug 2007

 
Teaching On the Second Life Stage:
Playful Educational Strategies for Serious Purposes

CDB Barkley, Anya Ixchel and Kim Pasternak discuss the drama.
Yesterday, Anya Ixchel (Angela Thomas) and Kim Pasternak (me) presented our session at the New Media Consortium’s Symposium on Creativity in Second Life. We used aspects of Process Drama to develop a structure that [...]

DramatARGy – Process Drama as Alternate Reality Game

11, Aug 2007

This is the slideshow used in the workshop I ran in Hong Kong during IDEA2007. If for some reason it isn’t showing below (IE7 seems to be particularly fussy lately) then you can find it here – http://www.slideshare.net/kimbowa/dramatargy

NMC Symposium – Creativity in Second Life

9, Aug 2007

Next week the NMC is running an entire weeks symposium on “Creativity in Second Life” There are a number of strands: Machinima, Fashion, Sculpture and Modeling, Virtual Photography, and Teaching Environments, social / arts events, and lots of practical and interactive sessions.
I’m involved in one of the sessions…
Fri Aug 17 7pm – Fri Aug 17 [...]

ICT2007, IDEA2007, WCS

8, Aug 2007

I have recently returned from Hong Kong where I spent 3 weeks involved in a range of academic programs.
The first was the ICT2007 conference where I spent a couple of days with some really creative IT educators from school and university sectors. I presented a couple of papers and attended several others.
The second event [...]


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