Science reports and advocacy.
Ball State University honors projects
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Ball State University honors projects
Public presentations. The public side of science. Don't just learn about science, learn how to tell about it. For the Honors projects at Ball State University, the Hypergrid became a way to offer presentations to a larger academic public .
Measles can be eliminated
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- (More after the break)
- Imagination is not the opposite of reality. Imagination is the future of reality
News and Notes
Take Five Short Poetry Wrkshp-Tue 7/28,7PM SLT
This week at the Short Poetry Workshop we’re doing Take Five. Everyone is given 5 words to use in a poem. Use any poetry form including free verse. The group will then chose 5 more words to use in the next poem. It’s great fun to see how everyone writes different styles using the same 5 words
- Location Link. Click to go or drag to the Viewer screen:
- http://slurl.com/secondlife/
SciFi Film Festival
- SciFi Film Festival 2015 has a submission fee but
- For videos shot in Second Life, University of Western Australia
- pays the fee.
- Deadline for Regular submissions Midnight – 1 August 2015
- Deadline for Late Submissions Midnight – 29 August 2015
Summer of Arts submissions open Monday on Metropolis
- Summer of Arts 2015
- Open to artists now.
- Open to everyone September 25, 2015
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- HYPERGRID EVENTS
- Entertainment on the Hypergrid
- OpenSimWorld: HyperGrid Destinations Directory
- OpenSimWorld: upcoming events
- Calendars: Entertainment in the virtual worlds
- More news in my blog roll (column on the right)
Presentations and presenters
- Huntington’s Disease and Infectious Proteins by Amanda Baskfield
- The Extinction of Dinosaurs by Kayla D'Alessandro
- Penicillin: the antibiotic revolution by Rose Franklin
- Stem Cell by Alyse Gwaltney
- The Attainable Problem of Too Much Food by Tim Hoblin
- Air, Water, and the Transmission of Disease by Christine Johnson
- Viruses and Cancer by Shelby Merder
- Measles and its vaccine by Tyler Ostrom
Huntington's disease
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- Course is designed to give an appreciation of scientific theory development.
- This class covers major landmark work in biology that changed our understanding of the science in dramatic fashion.
Archaeopterix, the road to birds
- Class will be reading, writing, and discussion intensive and have asynchronous online discussions or activities as a component.
Penicillin and the antibiotics
- An original body of work by the student that conveys a science lesson.
- The student communicates a paradigm shift.
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News and Notes
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How to handle a Hypergrid address in Firestorm
- Example HG address: grid.kitely.com:8002/Cookie II
- Paste the HG address in the World Map, next to Find. Click Find, TP
- When you get to the grid, look for TP to local destination or use world map.
- Testing HG addresses and address forms. Failure is not forever
- Travelling with Firestorm. Local, nearby, ingrid, Hypergrid, summary
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- Put site:virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com at the end of the search terms
- What is Second Life?
- Annotated screen shots made with Jing
- All original content on this blog is Creative Commons License, attribution only.
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- Selby Evans in Kitely, Thinkerer Melville in Second Life
- Lauren is funny; Avatar Repertory Theater
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