Fisica : evento speciale

Un evento speciale online
Il 90° compleanno di Richard Feynman (che ovviamente non è più con noi)

Astronomy and Physics Virtual Conference

(or Dick’s Digital Nonagintennial Commemoratory Colloquium!)

May 10-11, 2008

SciArt Media Center

In the virtual world of Second Life

http://www.sciartmedia.com/Dicks90th.html

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Alex Filippenko - Co-discoverer of the "dark energy" which makes up most of our Universe Speaking on: Dark Energy and the Runaway Universe

Professor of astronomy, UC Berkeley
Member, NUKER team studying super-massive black holes, using the Hubble Space Telescope
Year 2000 Guggenheim Fellowship award winner
2006 US Professor of the Year award from Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization award recipient, 2004
Wikipedia Page on Alex Filippenko Alex's UC Berkeley Home Page

Jimbo PerhapsThe Designer of the Space Shuttle and

Mir Space Station in Second Life

Speaking on: Creating Realistic Physics in Second Life

The American Chemical SocietyCaia Alter(Gus Rosania)

Speaking on: Drug Travel: An Amazing Voyage Across Intracellular Space

Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences

The Christa McAuliffe Planetarium

vBusiness EXPO ed education

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Fleep parlerà al vBusiness Expo
http://www.vbusinesscentral.com/
Fleep T. parlerà alle ore
11:00 AM "Selling the idea of virtual worlds to stakeholders "
"Come vendere l'idea dei mondi virtuali agli azionisti"

altro intervento:
Chris Collins, IT Analyst in the UCit Instructional & Research Computing department at the University of Cincinnati

Ecco il programma, il SLURL ed il link al sito della conferenza
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Clever%20Zebra%202/235/21/55

altri link utili forniti alla conferenza-meeting
http://kellysecondlife.com/eprise/main/web/us/customers/secondlife/index.html
http://cleverzebra.com/products
http://sl.markettruths.com/
http://socialresearchfoundation.org/
http://www.nbhorizons.com/list.htm
https://lists.secondlife.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo

presentazione della SaLamandra...che è anche risorsa per diffondere materiali SLED (anche con uno HUD (per trovarli )per la più vasta comunità academica.

Tramite strumenti come WIKI, Merlot (oltre 18000 object learning) Salamandra mette in comunicazione con i tre web-based migliori strumenti
SLOOD.ORG
SALAMANDER WIKI
MERLOT(Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching)

per la prima giornata guardare qua
http://www.vbusinesscentral.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2052455%3ABlogPost%3A2103


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Il giorno dell'Africa in SL

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Orange%201/195/134/31

Se guardiamo la mappa dei luoghi dove è utilizzato Second Life ci accorgiamo che sono ben poche le terre africane che possono accedervi.
Perchè?
Cosa è il digital divide?
Bisogna favorirne l'accesso alle tecnologie che è ancora limitato.
Ecco una iniziativa interessante.
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Orange Team

Join us on Orange Island today at 10AM SLT as we're celebrating the 1rst annual Africa Day in SL.

It's a celebration of Africa in virtual worlds and access to technology.

10AM SLT African Art
11AM SLT Access to Virtual Worlds in Africa: challenges and opportunities
12.30PM SLT Live Music with Sage Duncan
2PM SLT Talk with Jean Miller (Director of International Initiatives at LindenLab)
2.15PM SLT Virtual Worlds a new voice for African cultures and ideas?
3.30PM SLT Trip to Virtual Africa Art Exhibition