We have been asked to write a critique of an educational resource in Second Life (SL).
I spent so much time in Second Life searching for a suitable educational resource, I think I have had an overdose of it now. … Read the rest
Category: Virtual Learning Environments
Avatars – why appearance matters
It took me a while to get used to Second Life. When I first tried to modify my avatar’s appearance, she lost her torso and legs, so I wandered around with a transparent body. My experience of being present in … Read the rest
Learning spaces
Law and Mol (2001) suggest that social relations exist in multiple, coexisting spaces overlapping each other. They are borrowing metaphors from topology to define these four spaces as:
- Regions
- Network
- Fluid
- Fire
As distance learners we deal with all four … Read the rest
The cyber-metamorphosis
The word cyberspace sounds a bit outdated and too “spacy” for our actual interpretation of the virtual world. Nevertheless, there are some new word formations like cybercrime, cyberwar and cyberterrorism that are very tangible these days. It seems that the … Read the rest
Fooling the senses
We heavily rely on our senses, especially on our vision. It is, as O’Loughlin states: “that superior sense through which a self-knows the world” (2006, p. 6). Luckily for designers, the vision is relatively easy to fool. The eyes are … Read the rest