Second Life at UK & PS 545 American Political Thought

Since a few of you have been asking, the url for the PS 545 American Political Thought wiki is http://ps545spring08.wikispaces.com. It’s where the class members are keeping their journals and group projects for the digital ethnography project.
You can also find out more about what’s going on at UK’s Second Life Island by visiting http://ukisland.wordpress.com. there’s [...]

Slideshow of my UK Second Life Island Presentation

For those of you who were unable to make it to the Totally Awesome University of Kentucky Second Life Island Grand Opening (whew!) last Thursday, here is the slideshow from my presentation.

Note: I’m not referring to such things as PowerPoint anymore. I’m using Keynote exclusively these days. And with other tools getting more popular all [...]

UK Second Life Island Grand Opening Thursday

Just wanted to post this invitation to UK’s Grand Opening for its Second Life Island on Thursday afternoon. I’ll be giving a brief talk as part of a panel at 2pm at the WT Young Library Auditorium. You can participate in events in Real Life or Second Life all afternoon. I hope to see you [...]

Cat Herding and Taking PS 545 Students on a Second Life Field Trip

My PS 545 American Political Thought class is doing a major Digital Ethnography project in Second Life this semester. To get everyone on the same page, we went on a “digital field trip” in the lab the other week,

and had some fun deconstructing the meth lab simulation on UK Island. That’s me in the all-black [...]

Pedagogy 2.0 and Second Life

Boy, Slideshare is just chock full of goodness today! Wanted to put down these two presentations for my own future reference, on on “Pedagogy 2.0″, or using Web 2.0 technologies in the classroom and another on Second Life in education, of interest to me as I’m currently on U.K.’s Second Life Policy committee.

Play and Digital Space

Attention Conservation Notice: I’m putting this PowerPoint up for future reference. As some of you know, I’m considering a Second Life component of American Political Thought next semester, so this is just going into the research/prep stream for that. Note to self: Read The Play Ethic now that it’s out in US paperback.