In a Strange Land: What Happens When You Listen to Students' Requests About SL

Monday, April 22, 2013

What Happens When You Listen to Students' Requests About SL

Location: Dead

They wanted a combat system and "consequences" at the House of Usher.

And they got me killed. For THEIR final exams!

The dog did it. The students' avatars toast my demise with Absinthe.

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About In a Strange Land

I'm Joe Essid, a faculty member in the departments of English & Rhetoric & Communication Studies, at the University of Richmond. I began exploring virtual worlds in January, 2007 and taught with Second Life and in OpenSim Grids until Spring, 2013, when I tossed in the towel on a technology I still don't find ready for prime-time, educationally or professionally. These ramblings began as sense-impressions of irreal spaces by a naif in Second Life. I wrote them for our local paper's Web site, and when the "hype era" about SL ended, I moved my musings over here to Blogger. My research and teaching focus on the history of communications technology: I didn't get the flying car I wanted in the Apollo era, or a chance to work on the Moon. So I have to settle for an avatar.