Second Life Education Research

This morning I started a new listserv for folks conducting research in Second Life.
If you’d like to subscribe go here 

Mark Bell  and I went to IU  yesterday for a brown bag lunch session featuring Lee Sheldon  discussing his Londontown project. This virtual environment will be a fascinating interactive experience in Victorian era London. Complete with all the great characters and figures of the time, Londontown will allow residents to interact with Dr. Jekyl, help […]

Yesterday I was involved in a panel of Second Life educators invited to speak at the NMC  about arguing for the legitimacy of Second Life as an education tool.
Jeremy Kemp put together a fantastic panel. It was, by far, one of the most useful events I’ve ever attended in Second Life.
My ten minutes focused […]

Tonight in my face to face class there will be no fewer than three video cameras from media sources. Our local news station, a campus news show, and MSNBC will be here filming the class. I’ve got a CD of machinima footage shot by Susi Spicoli to give away as well.
It’s certainly strange for me […]

Over the weekend the press was all abuzz with the discovery of a new Robert Frost poem. Robert Stilling, a PhD student at the University of Virginia, discovered the poem written on the inside cover of a book donated to the university library as part of a larger collection. Congratulations to Mr. Stilling, of course. […]