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We've moved the Masters of Digital Media Blog!

2008-04-17T12:12:00.006-07:00

The Masters of Digital Media Blog has moved to mdm.gnwc.ca/blog. MDM students, faculty and staff share their experiences and thoughts about the Masters of Digital Media Program, the digital media community, and life at the Centre for Digital Media.

http://mdm.gnwc.ca/blog

Learning Space Collaborative Modding Exercise in Second Life - January 18th & 24th 2007

2007-01-17T01:53:00.000-08:00

CDM Open House 25Nov - Collaborative Learning Classroom, originally uploaded by gnwcampus.

Happy New Year from the MDM Program team!

One initiative that we are currently working on is transforming traditional style educational spaces (for example lecture halls and seminar rooms) into student designed collaborative learning environments. We would like to move beyond conventional 'real life' pedagogical delivery modes and encourage students to actively engage and participate in their learning milieu by creating virtual learning spaces & places, and have students learn technical design skills (and modding) at the same time.

Please join us at our Learning Space Collaborative Modding workshop we are having at the Virtual Centre for Digital Media (Erie, 178, 55, 25) on Thursday January 18th - 1oam SLT/PST AND repeated later the same day at 1pm SLT/PST where we will have a 'brainstorming' session to take the existing seminar room at the Virtual Centre for Digital Media, and transform it into something that is collaboratively created by a group of individuals - the intention is to show that a group of individuals can come together and create their own learning space.

The following week (Wed Jan 24th 10am SLT/PST) we will put theory into practice and actually do the modifications and changes to the room to see what the end result might look like; however if you only want to come to the brainstorming session on the 18th - that's fine too - We're interested in your thoughts, ideas and expertise.

See you there!

If you have questions, please feel free to email Us or message us in Second Life:

TracyTrail Blazer (Tracy Kennedy) - tracy@gnwc.ca

JoannaTrail Blazer (Joanna Robinson) - joanna@gnwc.ca

More information about the progam here:

http://www.gnwc.ca/mdm/

http://www.mastersofdigitalmedia.blogspot.com

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gnwc

Simultaneous FirstLife/SecondLife Open House a great success!

2006-11-27T09:53:00.000-08:00

CDM Open House 25Nov, originally uploaded by gnwcampus.

Hello all & Thankyou to all of you, who came down to either our Second Life or Vancouver open house on Saturday!

At both locales, virtual and physical, we had a large number of educators and prospective student visitors!
We had over 100 attendees in Vancouver, and about half that amount throughout the day in Second Life.

We had some great discussions and a whole lot of fun - thankyou to everyone who contributed to all aspects of the day!

Pictures from the SL event are available on the GNWC Flick Photo album.
Click the image above to see more of the SL Event. More soon!

In the meantime, there is more about our Masters of Digital Media program @ www.gnwc.ca/mdm

2006-11-23T22:27:00.000-08:00

Masters of Digital Media-Making of CDM in Second Life - II

Second Life Search window Screenshot

2006-11-22T20:29:00.000-08:00

Second Life Search window Screenshot, originally uploaded by gnwcampus.

Ok, so you made it into Second Life. Now how do you find your way to the Virtual Centre for Digital Media?

It's easy, just click the blue Search button at the bottom, centre of your screen. Then type in gnwc in the search window as shown and hit enter.
Then, click the Teleport button!

cdmnov22

2006-11-22T20:28:00.000-08:00

cdmnov22, originally uploaded by gnwcampus.

CDMofficenov22

2006-11-22T20:26:00.000-08:00

CDMofficenov22, originally uploaded by gnwcampus.

Sparkle Dale from Telus

2006-11-18T11:10:00.000-08:00

Sparkle Dale from Telus, originally uploaded by gnwcampus.

Introducing Sparkle Dale, part of the Virtual Telus Team in Second Life. Sparkle will be co-hosting the MDM Open House on Nov 25th in 'RL' and SL. Telus will have some merchandise for the open house gift bag in Second Life.

CDM Nov 16th, 2006

2006-11-16T10:51:00.000-08:00

CDM Nov 16th, 2006, originally uploaded by gnwcampus.

CDM Nov 16th, 2006.

CDM Nov 15th, 2006

2006-11-15T10:50:00.000-08:00

CDM Nov 15th, 2006, originally uploaded by gnwcampus.

CDM Nov 15th, 2006. Only ten days left until the open house on Nov 25th!

CDM Nov 13th 2006

2006-11-13T10:31:00.000-08:00

CDM Building Nov 13 20061, originally uploaded by gnwcampus.

CDM Building - Nov 13th 2006. One of the entrances starts to take shape.

CDM Nov 11th 2006

2006-11-11T10:29:00.000-08:00

CDMNov1120064, originally uploaded by gnwcampus.

CDM - November 11th, 2006. Things are really starting to take shape!

CDM Nov 9th, 2006.

2006-11-09T10:27:00.000-08:00

CDMNov920062, originally uploaded by gnwcampus.

CDM - Nov 9th, 2006.

CDM - Nov 8th 2006

2006-11-08T23:23:00.000-08:00

CDMNov820062, originally uploaded by gnwcampus.

CDM - Nov 8th, 2006. Things are starting to take shape.

TracyTrail Blazer, JoannaTrail Blazer & Scope Cleaver

2006-11-08T11:14:00.000-08:00

TracyTrail Blazer, JoannaTrail Blazer & Scope Cleaver, originally uploaded by gnwcampus.

Our Virtual CDM begins to take shape...

2006-11-08T11:13:00.000-08:00

nov7latenite, originally uploaded by gnwcampus.

Scope Cleaver, Building the Centre for Digital Media in Second Life

2006-11-08T11:12:00.000-08:00

Scope Cleaver, Building!, originally uploaded by gnwcampus.

2006-10-29T13:10:00.000-08:00

Digital Media School Reel