On Feb 6, 2008 12:14 PM, Kip Roffo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Barbara, > > I did much of my doctoral work on accommodating cultural diversity in > distance learning. You may find some useful materials here, including my > dissertation on transcending cultural differences in international > classrooms (online and onground): http://wwmr.us
We have a number of language and culture initiatives brewing at One Laptop Per Child, and could use your advice. If you are interested, see http://laptop.org http://wiki.laptop.org pages on Languages, Countries, and he like http://lists.laptop.org http://dev.laptop.org/translate for background. We are thinking about how to create an area in SL for our users, but the client will not run on an XO laptop. (466 MHz processor, no graphics acceleration). We would need a 2D or wireframe client, or some other adaptation. > I also have an island with cross-cultural learning resources for > international students: > http://slurl.com/secondlife/Educare/111/52/26/?title=Educare I'll invite our people to check it out. Message copied. > Hope this helps some with your research. > > Best success, > Steve (Kip Roffo) > ----- > Steven R. Van Hook, PhD > University of California, Santa Barbara > ELS Language & Culture Program > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ------------------------------ > > > > Message: 2 > > Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 16:32:44 -0600 > > From: "Barbara Z. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Does anyone know of articles regarding the impact of ethnic cultures on > > the use of virtual worlds and/or video games? Particularly, I'm > > interested in learning in educational settings, but I'm also open to > > informal learning. I find quite a lot on gender, urban, youth, popular > > culture but very little on ethnicity. > > _________________________________________________ > > Barbara Z. Johnson > > Doctoral student, Teaching and Learning, University of Minnesota > > > _______________________________________________ > Educators mailing list > To unsubscribe > https://lists.secondlife.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/educators > -- Edward Cherlin End Poverty at a Profit by teaching children business http://www.EarthTreasury.org/ "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay _______________________________________________ Library mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library
