Educational Gaming Commons - Press Start

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You are invited to join us next Wednesday for the first of a new monthly NMC event - our Virtual Worlds Expeditions. Join our lead architects and designers, Beth Sachtjen and Chris Holden, for visits to some fo the more compelling education destinations-- to explore their design and and how they were built. Our first few will be to some of the projects the NMC Virtual Worlds team has built where Beth and Chris have deep experience (they built them all).

On Wednesday July 1 we are visiting two projects built for Yale University- the Mudd Library (epxloring the use of Second Life to do virtual building design) and the Yale Paper Mill (Second Life as a means to experience environments dificult to visit in real life). We will be joined by the clients who requested this project, Ken Panko  and Themba Flowers from Yale, who will share their starting visions for the projects and how they has been used since completion.

If you want to be part of the expedition, meet us at 10:00 AM Pacfic Time on July 1 (check local time) at NMC Campus (we will leave teleporters there if you miss the start of the tour). More information at http://virtualworlds.nmc.org/2009/06/23/vwex-yale/

 If this goes well, we will run the expeditions on the first Wednesday of each month. All are free and open to anyone interested in joining us (and there might be some valuable freebies given away).

regards

Alan

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Alan Levine
Vice President, NMC Community and CTO
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For details see http://www.nmc.org/cal