On the Road

Posted on October 24, 2007 by Timothy Burke

I’ll be in Washington DC tomorrow for a talk to alumni on virtual worlds. See you there, Swatties.

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6 Responses to On the Road

  1. nord says:
    October 24, 2007 at 11:56 pm

    Vi sitter här i venten och spelar DotA … good music to work to late at night …

    Have fun!

  2. Chris Segal says:
    October 27, 2007 at 11:40 pm

    Thanks for coming down, Tim. It was a great evening!

  3. kelly in kansas says:
    October 30, 2007 at 7:34 am

    Would love to hear more about your thoughts on Second Life. I’m not finding the college/university folks there that I had hoped to but am probably just not looking in the right places. I was teaching class yesterday when a nearby junior college held a tour for our state tech group of their site (Johnson County Community College) and a Harlem Renaissance site – the concept of which seems quite intriguing for someone who teaches 20th century US.

    Any chance you can share your talk here?

  4. Timothy Burke says:
    October 30, 2007 at 10:24 am

    It’s a series of PowerPoint visuals along with an outline–I’m not sure how much sense it would make just by itself. But maybe I should do a post here just on the pedagogical uses of virtual worlds, given that at Terra Nova, I have colleagues for whom that is their central interest. Compactly put, I think Second Life is a fantastic way to demonstrate what virtual world pedagogy might look like, and it has some tools that would give students and faculty a sense of what might be possible, but I also think it’s a platform with some severe limitations once you want to go beyond just demonstrating or suggesting the possibilities.

  5. Chris Segal says:
    October 30, 2007 at 7:07 pm

    I took down about 1200 words of notes that I could e-mail, although they’re extraordinarily general and geared towards an MMO-savvy audience.

  6. kelly in kansas says:
    October 30, 2007 at 8:48 pm

    Please do post more of your thoughts about Second Life in detail. I know of lectures and PowerPoints being utilized in SL but would be interested in hearing more about how you know colleagues are using it as a teaching medium.

    Chris – your notes would also be helpful – either posted here or as a comment at http://teachinghistory.typepad.com/technology

    In either case – thanks!

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