Day 3
Karen Maki, research
Richard, re: COU Doc
Contents
Ken Hudson, Loyalist Second Life=
Paradigm shifts
- the future can change quickly
- e.g. the vision of the 1950s home computer and now Google Lively
- open SIM project, host SL locally (IBM)
- can perhaps communicate across platforms- ubiquitous & open
MUVE
- 3d, 3rd prson graphics
- accessed over the Internet
- simultaneous users
- 5000 educators in SL
- incredible leap in usership from Jan. 2006 (250,000) to March 2007 (10MILLION) users
- educational community took notice to possibilities of SL
- compelling, engaging, interactive, immersive
Desktop Virtual Worlds Revolution
The Skeptic
- what's the point of this??
- e.g. Get a First Life
The Believer
- went to Harvard and bumped into Law students, doing a project, needed some art
- Harvard Law CyberOne
- included students, extension students, community
- students didn't get a different version b.c. of the technology
The Evangelist
- founder of Canadian educators in SL
- senior fellow Beale institute, at OCAD
- focus on social media and virtual worlds
Loyalist
- in Belleville
- disruptive change- add SL, uptake increased in LMS (from 13-50%)
- first Canadian campus in 2006
- establishing a campus AND started teaching at it