Does anyone use, or have any experience with a program called Second Life?
It's a virtual environment with some academic uses. The IT person just
emailed me to ask if I might want to use it for my online classes. It's
been mentioned in passing on TIPS a couple of times, but no one has given
any
On 7 Oct 2008 at 10:11, beth benoit wrote:
Does anyone use, or have any experience with a program called Second
Life? It´s a virtual environment with some academic uses.
Good question. So I'll answer it with another question.
I'm not a gamer (at all) but I admit to being tempted by Spore.
Some of the Psych faculty at James Madison have used Second Life (SL)
for both online and face-to-face courses. At the most recent Best
Practices conference, Suzie Baker and Monica Reis-Bergan presented on
it. Suzie also did a presentation on SL at APA. I'm certain either of
them would be happy
I went out this morning just before dawn. It was a little before 5
a.m. I was
passing houses that lined the street. A light went on in one of them. I could
not help
wondering who was awakening? Was breakfast about to be ready. Was she or he
getting
ready to prepare the children
Having been a teacher for over 25 years, in my early years I developed some
bad habits.
One habit was that anything that I owned as a teaching tool was freely shared
with everyone else, and similarly, I took freely borrowed from others.
As the years have gone by, and as there has been more a
Interesting you should askI just finished an interview with Paul
Eastwick who is a grad student at Northwestern University. He Dr.
Wendy Gardner just published a very interesting article in the journal
Social Influence called, Is it a game? Evidence for social influence
in the virtual
I am looking to develop the following courses and would appreciate hearing
from those of you who have such courses (backchannel is fine), even if you
don't teach it, perhaps you can direct me to your catalogue or forward this to
the appropriate person who does teach the course for a reply. A
Or, if the author(s) wanted to repost them to the list by way of
accounting for their origins, that'd be good, too
;)
They sound like good things, but I don't recall seeing them.
m
Marc Carter
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Psychology
--
There is no power for change
For # 1, try this websitehttp://www.studygs.net/for #3, contact Drew Appleby at the Univ of Indiana--Purdue, he has a CD called "surviving, thriving, striving and arriving" that is giving to all incoming psych majors and is a guide to the
You might want to start with http://sleducation.wikispaces.com/
I'm doing some memory research in Second Life, now. Lots of universities
are doing lots of things. There are many things that you might direct an
online class to, like the virtual hallucination site, by UC Davis. There is
a
Excellent resources Rick. I just wanted to mention that Vassar
College's re-creation of the Sistine Chapel is also worth a look:
http://www.vassar.edu/headlines/2007/what-is-second-life.html
Michael
Michael Britt
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www.thepsychfiles.com
On Oct 7, 2008, at 4:34 PM, Rick
Babies sleeping in rooms in which fans were used have a 72% reduction in
SIDS (crib death) risk compared with babies without fans.
Ergo, the conclusion: Fan use may be an effective intervention for
further decreasing SIDS risk in infants in adverse sleep environments.
Source:
Use of a Fan
There is a review in this week's issue of PsycCRITIQUES of the following book:
The Levity Effect: Why It Pays to Lighten Up
by Adrian Gostick and Scott Christopher
Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2008. 229 pp. ISBN 978-0-470-19588-8. $22.95
An excerpt from the review by Richard D. Harvey:
In sum, this
It turns out that one of them is from OTRP website under scientific misconduct.
It is from some research conducted by Patricia Keith-Speigel in the mid 1990's.
I knew it had been some time ago, over 10 years ago, and I probably had the
scenarios because I might have actually received it to fill
I know that this is a bit picky, but it is Indiana University Purdue University
Indianapolis (IUPUI) at which Drew Appleby is employed. We people who teach at
the regional campuses are sensitive about our name.
Bob Wildblood,
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