Echoing Green is awarding one of its coveted Fellowships to teacher and charter school founder Felix Brandon Lloyd for what could become a financial Game For Change to teach children financial literacy: CentsCity applies the engaging technology of online role-playing and social networking sites like the Sims and SecondLife to develop high school students’ financial […]
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I dropped in on a public conversation between the MacArthur Foundation‘s President Jonathan Fanton and Linden Labs‘s CEO Philip Rosedale, hosted by the USC Center on Public Diplomacy. I think the discussion mainly focused on MacArthur’s interest in virtual worlds, including their hope that these spaces would become vibrant, parallel civic spaces (Fanton gave examples […]
The Dred Scott reanactment machinima that Charlie Nesson envisioned debuted at last week’s Internet & Society conference: Dred Scott’s Second Life Bernhard Drax did a tremendous job filming, scoring, and editing together this clip. AudioCaseFiles supplied outstanding voice talent. Charlie’s vision for this project was to do for legal text what graphic novels did for […]
Last month, the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice hosted a conference marking the 150th anniversary of the Dred Scott decision, including a re-argument of the case. Fresh from his efforts to conduct mock trials in Second Life, Charlie Nesson came up with the idea of shooting a machinima version of the reargument […]
I’m tardy in reporting two MUVE-related developments. First is that Prof. Nesson’s (Eon Berkman) has continued to experiment in Second Life by hosting mock trials, or cyber trials. Nesson observed that one of the major features/limitations of Second Life — use of text chat rather than speech — presents certain advantages when exploited creatively. Nesson […]
About a week ago, Prof. Pete Fitzgerald of Stetson Law School dropped me a line inquiring about using Second Life to offer his first-year Contracts students to engage in what I might dub “legal anthropology.” The fact that Linden Labs was now processing millions of dollars of transactions caught Pete’s eye, and he realized that […]
I’ve been working on a tutorial for State of Play Academy showing instructors what to expect and giving some tips. (I lack mastery of my video editing tools, so don’t ask me why there’s so much empty space around it.) It’s a snippet of a text chat that’s taking place among three course participants during […]
Last Thursday I had the opportunity to lead a lecture/discussion in Second Life for CyberOne-Extension about relationships, networks, and how to build relationships through one-to-ones. The night before I had attended a training by Milosun Czervik on behalf of the SL Library Group on presentation tools available in SL. I picked up some really useful tools at the Milosun’s presentation, most notably a chatfeeder (works like a teleprompter — you pre-write the talk and press a button to “speak” each line from the text) and AngryBeth’s whiteboard…
We held our first synchronous gathering last night on Second Life, 9-10 and 10-11pm Eastern. (Needless to say, it was a late night for us). Our plan was to get the groups comfortable with the space if they weren’t already (some in our class are “non-techies,” others are Second Life veterans), start to get to […]
