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{ Monthly Archives } September 2006

Disabilities in MUVEs

Yesterday in Second Life, on of our students (or unofficial participants, it’s a bit confusing at the moment) developed a technical glitch in which everything she typed was repeated twice or sometimes four times. (Like Jimmy Two-Times from Goodfellas). After double-talking a couple of times, she began apologizing for her “disability.”
I began thinking that a [...]

Back to School in There

On Tuesday we resumed our twice-weekly courses in There.com. Though we encountered our first serious technological glitch (the lecturer was unable to log into the space from work, likely for firewall reasons), we ended up having an interesting conversation nonetheless about what and how to teach in virtual spaces. For example, is it necessary for these [...]

Realspace teaching

CyberOne started yesterday at HLS, and today I had the opportunity to attend the second lecture. (The Extension School / Second Life class has no formal kickoff, though the courseware, wiki, and other websites went live this weekend). I haven’t been in a law school class since 2002, so sitting in the classroom again was [...]

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