To follow up on my blog ‘In defence of books’, for those of you going off on a summer break, here’s some book suggestions, since I’ve decided that there is a future for books. Each one of these involves a character who uses the Internet (or its future form), usually illegally, but for good [...]
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Kolowich, S. (2010) Avatars to teach the teachers Inside Higher Education, July 7 An article about a really interesting project, TeachME, by faculty in the University of Central Florida’s college of education to use avatars of students, based on four main adolescent student personality types, to train pre-service teachers. The avatars are not automated, [...]
Young, J. (1010) Will Second Life Upgrade Help Virtual Classrooms? Chronicle of Higher Education, February 25 Following Jeffrey Young’s earlier article suggesting some disillusionment of educational users with Second Life, this article reports on the new interface just released by Second Life. I’ve just downloaded it and need a little time [...] Bugeja, M. (2010) Avatar Rape Inside Higher Education, February 25 I hesitated about posting this blog, not because of the content, but because I already had a strong reaction to a previous posting suggesting that virtual worlds still had a long way to come before they are going to be useful in education, and [...] |
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