Second Life Education Research

Before reading this post be sure to read the posts by Henry Jenkins and Clay Shirky (Beth Coleman is weighing on this as well but her post wasn’t up when I read, still not up as of 2/1). Jenkins, Shirky, and Coleman plan to have a conversation regarding Second Life via their blogs over the […]

As you all may know the Colts are going to beat the Bears into the ground in next weekend’s Super Bowl. To add to the fun my friend and local crazy media guy, Ryan Hupfer, is hosting Bear Vs. Colt. There’s a new video every day so be sure to check it out! It’s a […]

This week’s INtake magazine (circulation of about 70k around central Indiana) features a cover story on Second Life with a huge picture of yours truly. It’s a great story covering SL culture, education, and the wonderful strangeness of it all.
Jim Walker, the writer, even interviewed one of the students from last semester’s class. How […]

Last night the Center for Media Design here at BSU announced that, together with the BBC, they are hosting an interactive television contest. Two lucky students will get to spend eight weeks in London this summer with all expenses paid. In return, the students must develop a pitch for an interactive media experience centered around […]

As I began here in a previous post  I’m working on a taxonomy of virtual environments. By describing the ten most important defining characteristics of virtual environments I hope to help educators (and others) learn to define environments, choose the space best suited for their own use, and begin to create a matrix that will […]

I’m sure we all get them. The emails that are addressed from someone we know and yet is full of jargon with an image attached selling Cialis and Viagra. I’m not sure exactly how the text is generated for these emails. I suspect it’s based on popular word ratings.
Maybe it’s because I’m often procrastinating doing […]

“Pick up after yourself!”
“Don’t leave things sitting around in public areas!”
“No balls in the house!”
Such was my first night of the new semester. My spring ENG 104 class is 15 men and one female. I don’t want to stereotype about how messy teenage boys are…but ok, yes I do. Geesh, are they messy! Last night, […]

I’ve been consulting at a local high school for the past few months. My job is to help the six teachers in the department learn to integrate the new computers in their classrooms into their pedagogy. When I last posted about this work I received an excited response from others doing similar work so I […]

After a month of waiting, Christine Lagario’s article about education in Second Life is finally in print. Here is a link to the online version.
In the past few weeks we’ve experienced a barrage of anti-SL hype. It was my hope that the great work that folks are doing in SL would finally get more coverage […]