Recently I was highlighted in an eSchool News article regarding the use of SL in my class.  It was especially fun when one of my best friends who is a faculty member at Kent State (Lin Lin) and my Director found the article as well :)   You can read the entire article here: http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStory.cfm?ArticleID=6713&page=1

Many colleges have begun to incorporate Second Life into some of their courses’ curriculum, and some have held entire classes based in the virtual environment. At Seton Hall University, students taking Danielle Mirliss’s Industrial and Organizational Psychology course this fall were able to use Second Life as part of a virtual team-building exercise. In it, students were given a cover story in which they were working for a public-relations firm that was building a piece on the best places and people in the Second Life world. The class spent two hours completing a structured scavenger hunt within Second Life, followed by completing a wiki and a survey.

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This month has been so busy but before it ends I should at least contribute one post.  Heidi and I had the pleasure of presenting our Virtual Team Building experience at the NMC 2006 Regional Conference in San Antonio, Texas.  I was very pleased at the response from the audience and all our hard work seemed very much appreciated.  There were many great presentations and the materials from the conference can be found here: http://nmc.org/events/2006fallregional/presentation_links.shtml.  All of the presentations were excellent and really challenged my thinking in how we can build community and deliver course content. 

I have uploaded our presentation to slideshare – please email me with any questions.  Enjoy! http://slideshare.net/dmirliss/supporting-virtual-teams-using-second-life/1

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