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UNCP in Second Life: UNCP Commons Conference Center |
The conference center provides state-of-the-art meeting space with organic features. Presenters and guests, students and faculty, gather in comfort with luxurious amenities and the latest technologies.
Adding to its allure, The UNCP Commons Conference Center is conveniently located on the south annex of the university's campus in the Dasom region of the southern continent mainland of the 3D virtual-reality Internet world Second Life. The site is immediately adjacent to the main campus in the Dotoorak region.
The conference center is custom-tailored to be a high-performance pedagogical space – a place not only for teaching and learning, but where work can be accomplished and details resolved – with a wide array of both mass communication and interpersonal communication technologies at hand.
It's ideal for classes, workshops, presentations, development sessions, colloquia, symposia and conferences.
Faculty members, students, university staff and administrators, and guests can meet, work and study in this virtual conference center while actually being dispersed across the real world.
The UNCP Commons Conference Center is situated in a lovely park setting. The main building is outfitted with:SLURL is short for Second Life URL, a Web address. SLURL's are direct links from the Web to locations inside Second Life. The SLURL for the UNCP Commons Conference Center is http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Dasom/36/236/1301
- a total of eight conference rooms, break-out rooms and work spaces under roof
- outdoor meeting areas in the park
- great flexibility for quick changes of room setups for activities
- conference and work tables with chairs
- the latest presentation technologies and equipment
- computers with Internet, Web and email connections
- media players
- RL news feeds and tickers
- social media links
- TV and live-video screens for streams of programs entering Second Life from real life sources
- shared media, parcel media and prim media
- quality voice chat for audible conversations in addition to the standard keyboarding
- text, voice and video communication via Internet email and Skype telephone
- globes, maps and charts
- drafting facilities
- sandbox nearby for quick builds as well as more extensive construction projects
- free stylish clothing and other necessities for persons new to Second Life
- informative documentation on the virtual world and conducting meetings
The conference center also has a new, attached, expansion wing, known as the UNCP Commons Conference Center Extension, at this SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Dasom/114/203/1301
The SLURL for the nearby sandbox is: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Dasom/26/46/55
A much larger UNCP sandbox – the Newbie Convenience Center & Rest Station – is at this SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Myungsimbogam/37/212/60
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