Invitation to Student Project in SL

This Thursday the first of four student groups in INF 315e will be having their team event in Second Life. The “G3s” as they have named themselves are hosting a benifit party at the Happy Clam this Thursday from 7-9PST Their invitation is below. I hope to see some of you there, they are tyring […]

Breaking the Second Life Learning Curve #2

Its conference season which means I haven’t been posting lately but I wanted to revist my post about breaking the SL High Learning curve. To recap, I have a class of 20 undergrads at Univeristy of Texas at Austin and I am teaching a course in Second Life called Working in Virtual Worlds. We meet […]

Breaking the Second Life Learning Curve

Much has been said though little published about the high learning curve in Second Life. In a research study I wrote last year, Second Life an Interactive Qualitative Analysis, students reported a very high learning curve in SL. In fact, the IQA systems map of the affinities reported Anger as a primary outcome of the […]

Exploring Virtual worlds

I finally had a chance to post a video project I’ve had on the backburner all summer. This video “Exploring Virtual Worlds” is a conceptual piece for a video series I’ll be making over the next few months about virtual worlds. The video was shot between April and May and already some of the info […]

Teachers, college students lead a Second Life

Beth Sussman from USA Today wrote a short piece about universities teaching in Second Life. Beth Ritter-Guth, a resident of the Educators Coop, is quoted in the article as she describes her Literature Alive! program in Second Life. I also get a nice quote towards the end of the article ,but, what I’m most excited […]

Grand Opening a Success!

Lsat night we held our grand opening party for the Educators Coop. We had quite a few guests, enough to crash the sim during the first hour. For the party, we turned half of the community sandbox into a dance floor complete with DJ booth, animated speakers, dance machine, smoke machine, light effects and of […]