Unit Materials
Cyberspace
- Gibson: “a consensual hallucination”
- Cyborg 1.0
Second Life Overview
- Blog Entry: Community
- What does the word “community” mean?
- What are the primary characteristics of a community?
- What do we mean by classroom community?
- How does one participate successfully in a community?
- What challenges do people face in becoming part of a community?
- YouTube Video: Harvard Law School & Second Life
- Lecture: Second Life
- Second Life Technology
Using Second Life
- Moving
- Walking
- Teleporting
- Flying
- To stop dancing and other actions, try typing /99 stop
- Viewing
- Camera view
- Movement View
- World view
- daylight
- making landmarks
- Searching
- Adding Friends
- Chatting
- public chat
- private chat
- Changing Appearance
- Inventory
Second Life Tour Destinations
- IUP Crimson Island
- Whitmyer Hall
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Writing Areas
- Shopping
- Vassar College and Sistine Chapel
eTopia vs. Dystopia
- Return to Crimson Island
- Discussion Issues
- “Will we ever go too far with all this?”
- What’s good about talking and interacting in Second Life?
- What are the problems?
- Which do you prefer and why?
- How might you use Second Life in a writing class?
- How might you use SL in a literature class?
- Why did you pick the avatar you picked?
- Try to describe your sense of the value of your avatar to you.
Additional Second Life Information