the one-hundred-and-seventieth episode of ventriloquy introduces a special issue of the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, which has as its theme 'Pedagogy, Education and Innovation in 3-D Virtual Worlds'.
this issue has been co-edited with my friends and fellow educators - Leslie Jarmon and B Stephen Carpenter II. it features a think-piece contributed by Professor James P Gee, entitled 'Games, Learning and 21st Century Survival Skills'.
please do join me in this 1.7 MB download, as i invite you to peruse the issue for yourself. for your convenience, the issue is available as a 10 MB PDF, and as a Calameo document below.
if you'd like to just download the papers individually, you can do so from the listing of the issues contents:
- Introduction
- Gee, Games, Learning and 21st Century Survival Skills
- Taylor, Can We Move Beyond Visual Metaphors? Virtual World Provocations and Second Life
- O'Connell, Grantham, Workman, Wong, Leveraging Game-playing Skills, Expectations and Behaviours of Digital Natives to Improve Visual Analytic Tools
- Jarmon, An Ecology of Embodied Interaction: Pedagogy and homo virtualis
- Stephen Carpenter, Virtual Worlds as Educational Experience: Living and Learning in Interesting Times
- Lim, The Six Learnings of Second Life: A Framework for Designing Curricular Interventions In-world
- Campbell, Learning in a Different Life: Pre-service Education Students Using an Online Virtual World
- Chodos, Naeimi, Stroulia, An Integrated Framework for Simulation-based Training on Video in a Virtual World
- Esteves, Fonseca, Morgado, Martins, Using Second Life for Problem Based Learning in Computer Science Programming
- Gerstein, Beyond the Game: Quest Atlantis as an Online Learning Experience for Gifted Elementary Students
- Herold, Virtual Education: Teaching Media Studies in Second Life
- Hudson, Degast-Kennedy, Canadian Border Simulation at Loyalist College
- Lee, Using Second Life to Teach Operations Management
- Mon, Questions and Answers in a Virtual World: Educators and Librarians as Information Providers in Second Life
- Pereira, Martins, Morgado, Fonseca, A Virtual Environment Study in Entrepreneurship Education of Young Children
- dos Santos, Second Life Physics: Virtual, Real or Surreal?
- Schwartz, Second Life and Classical Music Education: Developing Iconography that Encourages Human Interaction
- Walker, 3D Virtual Learning in Counselor Education: Using Second Life in Counselor Skill Development
- Zielke, Roome, Krueger, A Composite Adult Learning Model for Virtual World Residents with Disabilities: A Case Study of the Virtual Ability Second Life Island
- Lang, Kobilnyk, Visualising Atomic Orbitals Using Second Life
- Roush, Nie, Wheeler, Between Snapshots and Avatars: Using Visual Methodologies for Fieldwork in Second Life
- Lopes, Pires, Cardoso, Santos, Peixinho, Sequeira, Morgado, Paredes, Camerino, Use of a Virtual World System in Sports Coach Education for Reproducing Team Handball Movements
