Well, it seems I’ve attracted the attention of some folk in the USA who are also interested in online teaching/learning and, hurrah, drama! Tom, aka ArthurConan Doyle, has an entry over at the CATE Life blog. (http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/7321876) We’ve started talking about some possibilities of running a high school drama project on the Teen Grid at […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cWF438HgJAThis is a short sample of an online play presented recently in Second Life. I am currently working on a two-pronged approach to the use of Drama in Second Life. The first is my primary research interest of Process Drama (improvised drama around a theme or issue to learn about your relationship to that issue) […]
Well it’s been a while since I found time to post something new. I’ve recently joined the Second Life Educational Community and found it incredibly absorbing. This community is incredibly vibrant, and like the rest of Second Life it is growing at a rapid rate. When I say growing I’m referring to the population – […]
As I’ve been dipping into YouTube lately – I had encountered this account – “Lonelygirl15” was showing in all the most viewed listings as well as viewer favourites. It seems now that she is a fiction and the whole thing has been a marketing plan to develop interest in a new approach to interactive storytelling […]
There is quite a flurry of discussion on US bloggging and eductaion sites about the passing of the DOPA – Deleting Online Predators Act. I suspect it is a case of well-intentioned ignoramuses making policy that throws the baby out with the bath water. We all know the benefits of engaging students through online interaction. […]
From Christy Dena over at Writing About Virtual Words at WRT: Writer Response Theory we learn that: SLATE Magazine (Second Life Arts & Total Entertainment Magazine) is a new Second Life magazine that covers the arts in SL. There are 14 authors in the collective so far and we’re a mixed bunch of artists, academics, […]
A new Australian social networking site is recently underway – likely to be as troublesome to schools as MySpace but I wonder how long it will last – this sort of startup often has a short shelflife. See Babbello.
As the Digital Chalkie team were completing the second in their series on blogging (sorry to have been unable to participate) some of my colleagues at QUT have just released a book on the topic… Uses of Blogs, an anthology of scholarly essays edited by Axel Bruns and Joanne Jacobs, is now officially available. Axel […]
Last night in the palatial luxury of the Velvet Lounge in Perth, the most recent Australian chapter of the International Game Developers Association had its first public outing. Arriving at the door to be greeted by hostesses in hot pants were about 50 of the expected demographic – youngish males with a certain air of […]
“The secret is, even though it’s called Game Neverending, it’s not really a game at all. It’s a social space designed to facilitate and enable play.”- Ludicorp CEO Stewart Butterfield Mindjack – Stewart Butterfield Interview describing the original incarnation of Flickr as far as I can tell. This is stuff I need to spend more […]