Andreas,<br><br>[Pardon my de-lurking...] I don't use it myself, but I've been to plenty of humanities conferences lately where it's being discussed from both a pedagogical and research perspective.<br><br>Scan this listing of digital humanities sessions at the Modern Language Association for "virtual" and you'll find SL stuff: <a href="http://www.samplereality.com/2009/11/15/digital-humanities-sessions-at-the-2009-mla/">http://www.samplereality.com/2009/11/15/digital-humanities-sessions-at-the-2009-mla/</a><br>
<br>Or these daily schedules from the Digital Arts and Culture conference:<br><a href="http://dac09.uci.edu/day1.html">http://dac09.uci.edu/day1.html</a> (see the Sex 1 panel, where several talked about SL)<br><a href="http://dac09.uci.edu/day3.html">http://dac09.uci.edu/day3.html</a> (see Int Ped 1, which stands for interdisciplinary pedagogy; the Harrells presented a nice qualitative and quantitative study about using SL and STEM learning with alternative high school students)<br>
<br>Or last spring's Computers & Writing Online conference, which was partly held in SL (thanks to the NMC and the Institute for Multimedia Literacy at USC):<br><a href="http://writingprogram.ucdavis.edu/cw2009/sl.htm">http://writingprogram.ucdavis.edu/cw2009/sl.htm</a><br>
<br>(This spring's C&W Online will probably also be partly held in SL, and that conference -- mostly writing professors who teach with lots of digital technology and media -- always has a handful of sessions about WoW and SL, prolly more this year since the theme is Virtual Worlds: <a href="http://www.digitalparlor.org/cw2010/">http://www.digitalparlor.org/cw2010/</a> -- no details yet tho. And, fyi, the online conference is usually free...)<br>
<br>Best,<br>Cheryl<br><br><br>--------------------------------<br>Dr. Cheryl E. Ball<br>Asst. Prof. of New Media<br>Department of English<br>Illinois State University<br><a href="http://www.ceball.com">http://www.ceball.com</a><br>
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