[iDC] Anyone using SL

[Dick Dillon]

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funded by a major healthcare foundation studying the use of virtual worlds
for delivering distance counseling to rural clients.but hey what do I know?
I'm sure the Adult Regions of SL are more interesting!

 

 

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From: idc-bounces at mailman.thing.net [mailto:idc-bounces at mailman.thing.net]
On Behalf Of Cheryl Ball
Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 6:47 PM
To: Andreas Schiffler
Cc: idc
Subject: Re: [iDC] Anyone using SL

 

Andreas,

[Pardon my de-lurking...] I don't use it myself, but I've been to plenty of
humanities conferences lately where it's being discussed from both a
pedagogical and research perspective.

Scan this listing of digital humanities sessions at the Modern Language
Association for "virtual" and you'll find SL stuff:
http://www.samplereality.com/2009/11/15/digital-humanities-sessions-at-the-2
009-mla/

Or these daily schedules from the Digital Arts and Culture conference:
http://dac09.uci.edu/day1.html (see the Sex 1 panel, where several talked
about SL)
http://dac09.uci.edu/day3.html (see Int Ped 1, which stands for
interdisciplinary pedagogy; the Harrells presented a nice qualitative and
quantitative study about using SL and STEM learning with alternative high
school students)

Or last spring's Computers & Writing Online conference, which was partly
held in SL (thanks to the NMC and the Institute for Multimedia Literacy at
USC):
http://writingprogram.ucdavis.edu/cw2009/sl.htm

(This spring's C&W Online will probably also be partly held in SL, and that
conference -- mostly writing professors who teach with lots of digital
technology and media -- always has a handful of sessions about WoW and SL,
prolly more this year since the theme is Virtual Worlds:
http://www.digitalparlor.org/cw2010/ -- no details yet tho. And, fyi, the
online conference is usually free...)

Best,
Cheryl


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Dr. Cheryl E. Ball
Asst. Prof. of New Media
Department of English
Illinois State University
http://www.ceball.com

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