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Students Size Up Edtech’s Dark Side

Edsurge

This semester I’m teaching a graduate seminar on education and technology for Georgetown University. When students in my graduate seminar on education technology were given the chance to select a topic for a class session, they wanted to devote time to the digital world’s dark side. This is part 5. This made a great deal of sense.

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Materials design for Virtual Worlds

Nik Peachey

For anyone who hasn’t already visited Second Life then you can download some instructions from here and see how it is done (1.3Mb pdf). To access SL you need to have a good broadband connection and quite a powerful computer. Finding and learning how to use these objects and places could be a communicative task in itself.