Week+4

=Week 4: February 1 - 7=
 * Project 1 Presentations**

This week’s class will wrap up our discussion of avatars and identities, and virtual worlds as workplaces. Learners will share their “inner” and “outer” avatars with the class, and be prepared to discuss their experience creating the avatars with reference to the Ducheneaut reading. If there is any time remaining, we may begin the discussion about Higher Education in Second Life.

Readings (Due Feb 8th)
Ondrejka, Cory, (2008) Education Unleashed: Participatory Culture, Education, and Innovation in Second Life, THE ECOLOGY OF GAMES: CONNECTING YOUTH, GAMES, AND LEARNING, Katie Salen, ed., MIT Press, 2008. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1079245

Second Life Tasks
Choose one campus/educational location from the list below to visit outside of class time and make note of your observations for Forum Post 5. [List TBD]

Forum Post 5
During your field trip, what did you observe?
 * Did you see any artifacts of student learning?
 * Did you find traditional or untraditional classroom spaces?
 * What about spaces for socializing or professional networking?
 * Was navigation intuitive? Did you find anything remarkable on or about campus?