Comments on: On the Road https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2007/10/24/on-the-road/ Culture, Politics, Academia and Other Shiny Objects Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:48:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.15 By: kelly in kansas https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2007/10/24/on-the-road/comment-page-1/#comment-4474 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:48:24 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=446#comment-4474 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!

]]> By: Chris Segal https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2007/10/24/on-the-road/comment-page-1/#comment-4473 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:07:50 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=446#comment-4473 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.

]]> By: Timothy Burke https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2007/10/24/on-the-road/comment-page-1/#comment-4472 Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:24:17 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=446#comment-4472 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.

]]> By: kelly in kansas https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2007/10/24/on-the-road/comment-page-1/#comment-4471 Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:34:14 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=446#comment-4471 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?

]]> By: Chris Segal https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2007/10/24/on-the-road/comment-page-1/#comment-4470 Sun, 28 Oct 2007 04:40:01 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=446#comment-4470 Thanks for coming down, Tim. It was a great evening!

]]> By: nord https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2007/10/24/on-the-road/comment-page-1/#comment-4467 Thu, 25 Oct 2007 04:56:26 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=446#comment-4467 Vi sitter här i venten och spelar DotA … good music to work to late at night …

Have fun!

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