Second Life Education Research

Monday. It’s week two of Intellatour 2007! This week I’m off to New York City for CCCC and then off to Raliegh NC for a lecture at UNC and Educause Immersive Learning Environments focus session. Between the two stops I’m presenting SEVEN times! Yikes. Here’s the lowdown:

• Thursday 3/22: 6:30 pm 1Up Video Games Special Interest Group. Scott Reed, Matt Barton and I are running a “game” to show interested folks just how much of game design and play is rhetorical. Based on Burke’s Pentad, the game will allow us to explore games in a really interactive way vs the usual “who are you and what do you do?” stuff that normally happens at a SIG.
• Friday 3/23: 8:30 am My CCCC panel “Immersive Research and Experiential Writing in SecondLife: The Impact of 3D Worlds, Alternate Identities and Collaborative Activities in Composition” with Mark Bell and Bryan Carter (who can’t join us, unfortunately). We’ll be chatting about uses of Second Life in composition and new media classrooms.
• Friday 3/23: 10:30 am Computer Connection presentation about my upcoming book chapter about communication mechanics in virtual environments
• Friday 3/23: 7:30 pm Second Life interest group meeting in the New York suite on the Fourth Floor (The Hilton New York). I think this will be mostly composition folks but anyone in NY area is welcome. We’ll talk about using SL for education and answer general SL questions. Hopefully some folks will up for hitting the town afterwards.
  
• Monday 3/26: Chapel Hill NC, UNC talk about my research in virtual communications research. This lecture will take place from 11AM-12PM and will be hosted in
  the Undergraduate Library Room 205. Again, anyone in the Chapel Hill area is welcome.
  
• Tuesday 3/27: Educause project parlors “Immersion and Engagement in a Virtual Classroom: Using Second Life for Higher Education”
• Wednesday 3/28: Concurrent session 1:10 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. on immersion and engagement

Pheww! My little pink suitcase is hitting the road in a big way this week. I’ll be twittering and posting Flickr pics as often as possible. I’m looking forward to meeting lots of interesting folks and maybe even converting a few people to the wonders of teaching in Second Life. Wish me luck!

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