MLA 2009 Electronic Roundtable: Virtual Worlds and Pedagogy
Sponsored by the MLA Committee on Information Technology
How
Presenters give demonstrations of their projects at individual computer stations as attendees move from station to station at their own pace.
Who and What
- Mary McAleer Balkun (Seaton Hall University)
- Project: Teaching in Virtual Worlds: Recreating the House of Seven Gables in Second Life
- Jerome Bump (University of Texas)
- Project: 3-D Interactive Multimodal Literacy and Avatar Chat in a College Writing Class
- Bola C. King (University of California Santa Barbara)
- Project: Information vs.Content: Second Life in the Literature Classroom.
- Matt King (University of Texas)
- Project: Rhetorical Peaks
- Beth Ritter-Guth (Hotchkiss School)
- Project: Literature Alive
- Katherine Rowe (Bryn Mawr) / Mark Childs (Warwick University)
- Project: Virtual Theater History: Teaching with Theatron
- Julie M. Sykes (University of New Mexico)
- Project: Realms of Possibility: Understanding the Role of Multiuser Virtual Environments in Foreign Language Curricula
- Victoria Szabo (Duke University)
- Project: Virtual World-Building as Collaborative Knowledge-Production: The Online Crystal Palace