Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Proceedings from NMC Conference on SL & Virtual Worlds

The conference proceedings from the 2007 NMC Summer Conference in Indianapolis on Second Life and virtual worlds is available from NMC. The papers are available here as a free PDF download, full colour, hyperlinked, with embedded video - a useful read.


Table of contents:

  • The Arts Metaverse in Open Croquet: Exploring an Open Source 3-D Online Digital World
  • Beyond World of Warcraft: the Universe of MMOGs
  • ClevelandPlus in Second Life
  • Folksemantic: Web 2.0 Tools for Teaching and Learning
  • I Taught It, Bought It at the Game Store: Repurposing Commercial Games for Education
  • Multi-threaded Interactive Storytelling for Literary Journalism
  • Out of the Cave or Further In? The Realities of Second Life
  • Pleasure, Play, Participation and Promise: Socio-emotional Dimensions of Digital Culture Which Are Transforming the Shape of New Media Literacies
  • Searching for an Ideal Live Video Streaming Technology
  • Selling through Storytelling: The Tale of New Media Advertising in Consumer Culture
  • Stereoscopic Visualization of Scientific and Medical Education
  • Student Video Projects: Supporting the Beginning, the Middle, and the End
  • Supporting Authors of Digital Case Stories to Engage Faculty with Innovative Teaching Practices
  • Teaching Field Research in a Virtual World
  • A View from Second Life’s Trenches: Are You a Pioneer or a Settler?
  • The Yale Galapagos Project


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