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Teaching and Learning in a 3D Virtual Universe Leigh Harris/Laguna Vita
Distinguished LecturerUCLA Writing Programs
Annelie Rugg/Sunny LafferDirectorUCLA Center for Digital
Humanities
Sloan-C International Symposium on Emerging Technology Applications
for Online Learning
San Francisco, CA • June 18, 2009
Teaching and Learning in a 3D Virtual Universe
Institutional context (Annelie)
Instructional component (Leigh)
Overview
Teaching and Learning in a 3D Virtual Universe
What is the Center for Digital Humanities (CDH)?
How did this project come about?
How does this fit CDH goals? Testimonials: Why does the
Summer Institute work?
Institutional context
Teaching and Learning in a 3D Virtual UniverseInstitutional context
IT support unit for Humanities Division at UCLA Technology support for 17
departments and programs, 300 faculty, 600 grads, 250 staff
Computer infrastructure, desktop support, research and instructional support
What is the Center for Digital Humanities (CDH)?
Teaching and Learning in a 3D Virtual UniverseInstitutional context
CDH Summer Institute 2008 Professor Harris applied for help learning
Second Life to pilot with upcoming courses CDH Instructional Technology Consultant
(ITC) team designed curriculum and made connections with existing campus expertise
One week in August of intensive hands-on learning to use Second Life and discover instructional uses for Second Life
Follow up consultations as needed within regular ITC support framework
How did this project come about?
Teaching and Learning in a 3D Virtual UniverseInstitutional context
Supporting innovation in instruction Instructor-driven; technology supports
pedagogical goals Collaboration across campus (Library, other
IT units) Using existing resources and availability; no
extra cost Targeted, “just-in-time” help for instructors Supporting those who have limited
opportunities to explore, learn, develop new materials
How does this fit CDH goals?
Teaching and Learning in a 3D Virtual UniverseInstitutional context
Janet Goodwin, UCLA Applied Linguistics & TESLUndergraduate Interview Website/iWeb, iMovie, FTPhttp://media.humnet.ucla.edu/projects/summer institute/janet.mov
Alma Andersson, UCLA Asian Languages & CulturesOral assessments for Filipino language distance-learning/Wimba OAB, Photoshophttp://media.humnet.ucla.edu/projects/summer institute/alma.mov
Testimonials: Why does the Summer Institute work?
Teaching and Learning in a 3D Virtual Universe Leigh Harris/Laguna Vita
Distinguished LecturerUCLA Writing Programs
“Digital Literacy and Learning in a 3D Virtual Universe” English Composition 100W Satisfies Writing II
requirement Small, upper-division
writing course Humanities, Social Science
and Life Science majors Beta version
Initial Student Responses “I am an avid user of second life.” “I find Second Life a very useful
source for just about anything in life.”
“My first impression was puzzlement and curiosity.”
“I have no experience with Second Life. To me, it sounds very futuristic and somewhat menacing.”
“I have been banned before from second life.”
Mechanics of Class
Computer classroom Voice with headsets or text
chat Multi-disciplinary readings Visitors & excursions UCLA Library in Cybrary
City
Alexandria Knight UCLA Info Literacy Librarian
Goals for Students Writing
Digital/Informational literacy
“Visuality” (Kevin Kelly) Immersive learning
experience
Goals for Instructor Pedagogical Professional
Digital Humanities
Bridging Deep &
Hyper Attention “As students move deeper into the
mode of hyper attention, educators face a choice: change the students to fit the educational environment or change that environment to fit the students.”
--N. Katherine Hayles
Aesthetics of SL Analysis of SL
Theories of Second Life Immersion vs.
Augmentation
SL importing from RL
SL exporting to RL
Writing Assignments Exploration of avatar’s
identity
Investigation of information literacy
Research project/UCLA Library proposal
Class Avatars
Experiential Learning Community groups
Texts or Arguments Artists and social art
Filthy Fluno AM Radio’s “The Far Away”
Filthy Fluno: “ucla rocks the house!” With permission from the artist 6/23/09.
“The Far Away” by AM Radio
Thematizing Compositional
Elements Transitions
Intertextuality
Poetry in “The Far Away” The Radio: Laguna, welcome to The Far Away. Please see the vendor above the powerlines to donate to http://www.heifer.org [10:03] The Radio: Laguna, bienvenue à The Far Away. Veuillez consulter le présentoir au-dessus des lignes électriques, Un
don à: http://www.heifer.org serait très apprécier. Merci beaucoup! [10:03] Connecting to in-world Voice Chat... [10:03] Connected [10:03] The Radio: Laguna, The Far Away にようこそ。電線の上にあるベンダーを見て http://www.heifer.org に寄付をお願い
します [9:51] ::: imprinted with a chemical mix [9:51] ::: in a grand collection [9:51] ::: of landscapes upon a life [9:52] ::: I never stopped sketching you. [9:52] ::: The smooth flesh on your cheek, [9:52] ::: the gentle wave in your hair [9:52] ::: dictating calculations of graphite onto paper. [9:52] ::: The blurry trees behind you [9:52] ::: drawn like baby's breath [9:52] ::: in a wreath around your portrait [9:52] ::: growing like vines [9:52] ::: in stop motion animation [9:52] ::: until you're gone. [9:52] ::: The memory is left behind, [9:52] ::: imprinted with a chemical mix [9:52] ::: in a grand collection [9:52] ::: of landscapes upon a life [9:52] ::: of sketches as memories [9:52] ::: looking to incorporate the next. [9:52] ::: -- AM Radio
Globe Theatre Discussion Slide omitted for student privacy
Writing Projects
Areas of expertise or knowledge
On-site presentations
UCLA Library in Cybrary City
SDSU
Tarfang
Noumea Island
Rasta Ventures
Liverpool Philharmonic
Pleasure for All
Porcupine Region
Tzopelic Chatli
Tzopelic Chatli
Ballers City
IslamOnline dot Net
Mellon Seminar in Digital Humanities @ UCLA and SL Mixed-reality symposium
Students attended in RL & in SL
Learning Outcomes“there is some sort of cultural
revolution occurring…. Definitions and
criteria are changing or shifting, like the world
of arts.” -- Chen-Yao Learning spaces RL & SL
Boundary blurring/Spatiality
Electronic frontier
Learning Outcomes, cont.
“in the near future most education will [exist] primarily on computers because the capabilities far surpass the traditional forms of education.” --Andrew
Experiential & interpretive Critical thinking expertise Technological proficiency
Proposed Class Projects UCLA Royce Hall
3D Photosynth of campus spaces
Immersive foreign languages program
Proposed Class Projects, cont. ImmersSpace
Sensual multimedia tour
ShowSpace
Recommendations
Time
Visual & linguistic rhetoric of SL
SL community involvement
Project-based
Teaching and Learning in
Second Life
“Major themes of digital humanities include: …collaboration, … cumulative research, language and code, alliances between expert scholars and amateurs.” --Melissa