here's a video which suggests how Second Life might be used to help novice geographers develop phenomenological primitives (diSessa, 1993) regarding contour-represenations and topographical variation, in order that they might more effectively manage the cognitive transpositions between two- and three-dimensions.
[update: if you'd like to hear key excerpts of an interview with students that followed this session, they're now available :-) ]
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