Distance Learning Moves Into 'Second Life' Virtual Classroom - The Diigo Meta page

• 13 Feb 14
  

  Jason Lane
  • I like the potential for collaboration, immersion, aesthetics, creativity, social interaction,” Fishwick said. “There are a lot of different dimensions I think are valuable to educators.”
• 27 Apr 11
  

  Angela Edwards
• 18 Mar 10
  

  Elizabeth Drake

  This article is a report on several classes taught by University of Florida professors using Second Life. Paul Fishwick is a UF computer science and engineering professor whose avatar in his Second Life classroom leads discussions among some 30 other avatars controlled by upper-level UF undergraduate and graduate students in Fishwick's Aesthetic Computing course. Fishwick and other professors either use or consider using Second Life in lieu of or along with a real classroom for many reasons. \n\nMy specific interest in creating a virtual classroom that meets in real-time is to assess whether such a classroom might work to help eliminate teacher bias based on demographics like race, ethnicity, age, physical disability, and gender in the classroom by having students present their physical selves through avatars of their own choosing. However, it is extremely helpful for me to see how others use Second Life for various purposes.

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• 15 Apr 09
  

  Blair Adams

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• 18 May 08
  

  Wesley Shu

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• 23 Feb 08
  

  Jennifer Hadley

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• 07 Mar 07
  

  Ritchie Boyd

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• 16 Feb 07
  

  Chad Gesser

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• 09 Feb 07
  

  Josephine Dorado

  University of Florida computer engineering Professor Paul Fishwick prepares for an upcoming class in the three-dimensional online world Second Life on Feb. 1, 2007. Fishwick is teaching one of at least two classes at UF this semester convened in part in S

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