New Media Consortium (NMC) Campus

New Media Consortium (NMC) Campus

The New Media Consortium (NMC) Campus (SLurl) is the largest educational prescence in Second Life and supports events, classes, demonstrations, art exhibitions and learning experiences.The NMC Campus has hosted a number of speakers including Howard Rheingold, author of Smart Mobs, who talked about The Pedagogy of Civic Participation; Henry Jenkins, author of Convergence Culture, who talked about participatory culture and Daniel Reed, Vice Chancellor for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, who gave presentation on Computing the Future: The 3-D Net (PDF).Additionally, the NMC have hosted a number of real life conference session and associated events in Second Life, using streaming technologies to broadcast real life proceedings in-world. These have included the NYLC National Service-Learning Conference (with the support of Global Kids), the TCC Online Conference, HASTAC's (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory) Integration conference and the EDUCAUSE Focus Session on Immersive Learning Environments.NMC Teacher Buzz: The NMC also supports Teacher Buzz, a series of regular, informal discussion sessions for practicing teachers using Second Life, and those interested in developing strategies for using Second Life in teaching and learning. Recent Teacher Buzz sessions have included Digital Storytelling in Second Life, Composing Second Life and Immersion in Virtual Morocco. Read transcripts of Teacher Buzz sessions on the NMC Wiki or reports on Teacher Buzz activities via the NMC Campus Blog.(Note: To visit the NMC Campus you will need to join the NMC Campus Guests Group in Second Life. This will allow you to teleport to their sim. See the Second Life Knowledge Base for further information on joining Groups.)