Introduction to Second Life for GEO 493
Below are the presentation and links mentioned in my visit to John Bailey's GEO 493 class...
Christen Booth
Creatively Distracted
Christen Booth
Creatively Distracted
Category education
MMO for Kids Teaches Environmental Strategies?
Leigh Alexander of Worlds in Motion writes about an MMO IBM is launching the first quarter of this year, which will have kids staving off planetary ecological disaster by employing wind, solar, and water power strategies.
Open Learning: Podcasts
Want to learn about the Foundations of American Cyberculture, Existentialism in Literature and Film, Brain Structure and its Origins, or Quantum Entanglement? OpenCulture has linked to collections of open course material from a number of institutions including MIT, Berkley, Stanford,…
Webcasts from the MIT Media Lab
There are links on Bob Sutor’s blog to the webcasts from the Virtual Worlds: Where Business, Society, Technology & Policy Converge Conference, presented by IBM and the MIT Media Lab in June of this year. There are some interesting thoughts…
Learn a Second Language in Second Life
LanguageLab.com is now open for beta testing. Students will be able to sign up for language classes that meet entirely in Second Life. Classes are small, generally 6 to 8 students, and run for 50 minutes. Events are larger scale…
AIO Fall 2007 Business Communication Class in SL
The Art Institute Online has announced that they will be offering a Business Communication class in Second Life for the Fall 2007 semester. Their in-world island, AI Pittsburgh, will be open to the public soon. More here, and on YouTube…
The Future Doesn’t Stop at a 3D Web
CoolCat blogger Vicki Davis posted a few of her thoughts on SL and education and the implications for learning with the advent of a 3D web that is getting attention here and here. While she builds a heroic argument for…
Video Tutorials
Claudia Linden has pointed out that there are a number of video tutorials available on the SL wiki. I had forgotten about the wiki and am glad to see it is getting some attention. If you have one of your…
Graduate Film Students in SL
The University of Kansas is offering a graduate-level film class this semester that leans heavily into cyber culture. Students explore production of machinima and the rapidly changing issues of producing in cyberspace. The article in the Kansan goes into more…