I've been using it less than a year but from what I hear the real growth in use is with education. Hundreds of schools have official presences there. Virtual classrooms and office hours are obvious uses for online classes. I haven't found a lot of psychology-oriented sites but there is a nice virtual hallucination room done by UC Davis. The Jungian Archetype site is well done, but oriented more towards literature than history of psychology. It could be considered a public, self-paced tutorial. Many people have language classes because you can talk with native speakers all over the world. People are starting to have conferences in this format. My only chat room experiences have been with other educators discussing how to use the format for education but you can still kill a lot of time there.
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Paul C Bernhardt <[email protected] > wrote: > > Hi Rick, > > My wife and I participated in Second Life for a short while about 3 years > ago. We bailed on it when we found it to be a terrible time sink for us when > it was effectively an avatar based chat room. > > But, time has moved on and I hear a lot about virtual classrooms and other > uses that seem pretty powerful. We may research it more for such uses. > > -- > Paul Bernhardt > Frostburg State University > Frostburg, MD, USA > > > > -- 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])
