Digital and Physical Media Two

Talk about taking the physical world into the digital world. The New Media Consortium (a consortium of nearly 200 colleges and universities) have created a virtual ‘campus’ in SecondLife.

Check out this ‘seriously engaging‘ movie about the campus!

and check out this blog on the comings and goings in this virtual world.

Here’s a blurb about the virtual campus:

The NMC Campus is a virtual laboratory available to NMC member institutions and their faculty. Located in the virtual world of Second Life, it has been carefully constructed to provide researchers and students dozens of prebuilt settings for experiments in social interaction in 3-D space. These settings are expressly designed to encourage explorations along dimensions such as formal and informal; traditional and nontraditional; real and surreal; serious and playlike; and other continua as may be defined.

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