Virtual Learning Environments

Hey all – Since we talked about gamification, Jane McGonigal, and World of Warcraft pretty extensively, I wanted to lend my expertise and give everyone some resources for Game Studies if you are at all interested.  For those who don’t know, my focus here at The New School is Game Studies. This is a new(ish) [… Read More]

This week’s readings involved articles associating with how we engage online learning with students that we may never meet.  In an online world, we are asked to work in groups and engage in discussion with one another but many problems arise.  Anywhere from not all posting at the same time (that’s probably why many people [… Read More]

response to readings on presence, play, and collaboration

After  reading Presence, Interaction And Data Space by Mike Leggett, I began to think about what presence meant. I am quite ambivalent when it comes to the definition of presence. However, I came across a paper on the internet written by Rita and Ijsselsteijn called Being there: The experience of presence in mediated environments. The [… Read More]

            What is presence?  More than just what you get on your birthday (insert drum roll here) it is your being.  It is where you are, and who you are when you get there.  The problem with presence comes with the Internet.  Is it possible, with the help of a server, [… Read More]

I found the reading this week to be quite challenging, but extremely interesting. I’ve read a bit of theory about one’s virtual presence in the past, but the works assigned for this discussion really cover the topic from all angles. Legget’s piece is very conceptual and I like how it examines the idea of presence [… Read More]

Presence, collaboration and play: I found the readings this week, interesting, especially since I never really knew there was so much thought that went into what it actually meant by describing presence, especially in an online environment. From our readings we become aware that presence simply isn’t the physical appearance in the present time- it [… Read More]

Hi all, Please visit us in the Globalhood office space in the Nonprofit Commons. Click here to teleport, or copy/paste our slurl into your browser: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Plush%20Nonprofit%20Commons/229/190/26/?title=Globalhood Thanks for a great semester. Have a lovely weekend, -Group 9: Ali, Juan and Theresa Originally from http://vlegroup9.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/visit-us-in-second-life/

Your project may introduce a change to the way in which the nonprofit engages in outreach. In order for your project to be sustainable, what do you foresee will need to happen within the nonprofit? The sustainability of our project lies in Globalhood’s commitment to the nonprofit community in Second Life, and commitment to maintaining [… Read More]

VLE group 9 was tasked with locating and obtaining free land in Second Life to build an in-world presence for our nonprofit partner. To do so, we became a part of the thriving nonprofit community in Second Life, which is centralized in an in-world location called Nonprofit Commons. The NPC team provided us with a [… Read More]