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New faculty members begin teaching at ECU

Fourteen new faculty members have begun teaching this semester at East Central University. Another four faculty members are beginning their first full year after coming to ECU last spring, and two staff positions have been filled.New faculty members include:Wade AlexanderWade Alexander, instructor of health, physical education and recreation, also is assistant men's basketball coach. He taught part time last year in ECU's health, physical education and recreation department and was an assistant basketball coach. He was an assistant coach in men's basketball at Texas A&M University-Kingsville in 2004-05 and at Bacone College from 2002 to 2004.He received a bachelor's degree in health, physical education and recreation/exercise science in 2001 and a master's degree in secondary education with emphasis in sports administration in 2003, both from ECU.

System muddles registration

Ohio University's online class-scheduling system failed to recognize completed prerequisite requirements for almost 5,000 students slated to register for classes yesterday, blocking seniors and others with priority registration from getting into some courses.

A computer program that inputs every student's completed coursework into the online system failed to do so two weeks ago, but the problem was not detected until today, the first day of registration, said associate registrar Patrick Beatty. This blocked students from registering for classes with prerequisites: for example, a student with 100-level Spanish credit would not be allowed into 200-level Spanish because the computer system would not recognize the completed prerequisite.

OU computer technicians were running the computer program again last night and expected registration to function normally when scheduling at 7 a.m.

Bulletin Board for 11/4/06

Pioneer Area Quilt Guild will meet Monday at St. Paul's United Methodist Church, 1904 N. Pecan, Ponca City. Guild member Sandee Henderson will share her American Indian ribbonwork. She has more than 25 years experience with ribbonwork. Mary Butler will teach the "Mile-A-Minute Quilt" during Stitch and Assist at 10:30 a.m. and again at 11:00 a.m. Registration and social will be held at 11:30 a.m. Hostesses for the November meeting are Maxine Griggs, Barbara Bowling, Norma Fitts, Donna Schultz and Dot Cowan. At the conclusion of the business meeting, members and guests are invited to share their finished quilt projects during Show and Share. Members are reminded to turn in money and tickets for the 2006 donation quilt Irresistible Irises. Guests are welcome. For information, call Sue Roy at (580) 362-3860.

August 19th, 2008 09:14 AM

An Intro To OpenSim, the Apache of Virtual Worlds

ajohnj1 writes with an excerpt from Ostatic: "You've probably read a bit about OpenSim, the BSD-licensed virtual world server, and recent news that IBM and Linden Lab are working to make Second Life and Open Sim interoperable. Besides that project, what's Open Sim about, who's working on it, what are they doing with it, and how do you get involved as a developer and participant? Here's a starter's guide."

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August 18th, 2008 11:40 PM

OLPC Physics Game Jam For an XO

Brian Jordan writes "For 48 hours during the weekend of August 29-31 at the OLPC Physics Game Jam Boston, game developers will compete in teams of 2-4 to design and implement a physics-based game for the One Laptop per Child XO laptop. There are prize categories for indie, professional, and remote developers (Ludum Dare style). In addition to OLPC/Jam-related swag for all participants, one team will win an XO laptop. Participants should have some game development experience, but we'll be going over the development process during the event — read below for details. If you'll be in the Boston area this weekend, or want to participate remotely, sign up before August 22. If you're a graphic artist, sound designer, musician in the Boston area, or want to be a volunteer, get in touch." Click the magic link for details of the crash course in game programming being offered.