The Center for Learning in Virtual Environments (CLIVE) sponsored this workshop on Teaching in Second Life for Writing Educators, hosted by Lyr Lobo, aka Dr. Cynthia Calongne from Colorado Technical University. During the session, the attendees received a few dozen books, sitting arrangements and information on how to tailor the designs for their classes. Creative Commons Share Alike with Attribution License.

1. Dr. Cynthia Calongne
The Institute for Advanced Studies
Colorado Technical University
November 6, 2010
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Image: Dream Library [1]
Teaching in Second Life
for Writing Educators

2. Offer a sense of presence that promotes interaction.
Interaction between people within a setting.
Depicting imaginative scenes.
As the story unfolds.
Virtual Worlds

3. Ramapo
8th grade
In a virtual world
After the story
ends,
what happens
next?
Literature comes
alive!

4. 8th graders read the book Of Mice and Men and put it aside
The students enacted a courtroom scene that might have
followed the story and wanted to acquit George
He meant well and did not want to kill his friend.
After four days of 40-minute trials
George was convicted of murdering Lennie
They recommended a shorter sentence
After all, he meant well
Immersive Literature
Student experiences

6. Meeting minds
in
immersive
spaces
Presence in a
Virtual world

7. What is your dream space?

8. Literary Reference du Jour
meet for book discussions

9. NMC New Media and Learning

10. Human Barometer Exercise
to stimulate discussions

11. Imaginative
Environments

12. In the future, we will touch everything.
Everything will be smaller and sleeker.
Objects will be a lot smarter.
Books will read us.
The Future

13. The future of
literature

14. The magical
world of
words
Dream Library [1]

15. Notes
• [1] What does your dream library look like?
http://martavallelibrary.wordpress.com/2009/05/08/what-does-your-dream-library-look-like/
• [2] John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, 1937.
• [3] Last slide photo from Metropolis, a film by Fritz Lang 1927.
• Videos
– Text 2.0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QocWsWd7fc&feature=player_embedded#!
– Technology in the Year 2020 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uug8m0BHzZo
– Future of Screen Technology
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7_mOdi3O5E&feature=player_embedded#!

16. I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have
seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White