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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thepsychfiles.com On Oct 7, 2008, at 4:34 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > 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 Freudbot, but I forget where. He > really just spouts canned Freud info if you ask him the right > keywords. I have been setting up a bunch of illusions. I just > built a pretty functional Ames Room illusion. There is another > place with different illusions that inspired me to put som up. I > have a Tower of Hanoi game (illustrates subgoal problem solving) and > a memory matching game (just entertainment). It would be a great > place to hold online office hours and since it is an online class, a > place where giving the occassional lecture would make sense. You > can do voice or text chat. > > There is a little bit of a learning curve (learn to search for > stuff, learn to teleport, IM vs. chat...) and you need more than the > most minimal RAM and video card arrangement. Graphics on the > motherboard will not be a good experience. > > You might find this Second Life Biology blog interesting > http://www.slbiology.blogspot.com/ > or > The main educational organization in Second Life > http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Membership/Member_Networking/ISTE_Second_Life.htm > > It's free to get an avatar and look around. If you want to see the > ULM island let me know. It's still under construction. > > RS > > On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Michael Britt <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > > > Interesting you should ask....I 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 world". While they conducted their > research in There.com, the idea behind the research was simple and > yet quite interesting. They basically replicated the foot-in-the- > door and door-in-the-face techniques in this virtual world. A much > more interesting and unique use of a virtual world than just holding > classes in one. > > My website has the audio interview and links to sources. > > Michael > > Michael Britt > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.thepsychfiles.com > > > > > > On Oct 7, 2008, at 10:11 AM, 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. >> 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 details about whether it's been >> useful. I'm not even knowledgeable enough about it yet to >> understand quite how it works, but I'm looking into it. >> >> Here's the address: >> >> secondlife.com >> >> Beth Benoit >> Granite State College >> New Hampshire >> >> --- >> To make changes to your subscription contact: >> >> >> Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > --- > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > > -- > Rick Stevens > Psychology Department > University of Louisiana at Monroe > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > SL - Evert Snook > --- > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
