BGSU Virtual Campus in Second Life
Second Life Learning Community Members
Co-Facilitators
 | Real Life Name: Anthony Fontana SL Avatar Name: AnthonyFontana Chevalier Title: Co-facilitator of the BGSU SL Learning Community Anthony Fontana is a full-time Instructor of Art at BGSU. B.F.A., Painting from the Columbus College of Art and Design, M.F.A., Painting from Northern Illinois University. Author of the original graphic novel, THE DOGS, available in print and in Second Life. Educational research includes "The Polychronic Classroom", immersive learning environments such as Second Life, and socially motivated peer production. More info at AnthonyFontana.com |
 | Real Life Name: Bonnie Mitchell SL Avatar Name: BonnieMitchell Miles Title: Co-facilitator of the BGSU SL Learning Community Associate Professor of Digital Arts in the School of Art. Teaches classes on 2D and 3D animation, interactive multimedia, and concept development. Chair of the SIGGRAPH 2006 Art Gallery, Electronically Mediated Performances, & Beyond Boundaries: Charles A. Csuri exhibition in Boston, 2006 & 2007 GRAPHITE Digital Art Show in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Perth, Australia. Her work focuses on immersive art installations with collaborator, electroacoustic composer, Elainie Lillios. |
Learning Community Members
 | Real Life Name: Barbara Toth SL Avatar Name: Toth Amiot Title: Director, Writing Center |
 | Real Life Name: Linda Mandlebaum SL Avatar Name: Polgara Paine Title: Associate Prof., School of Intervention Services Dr. Mandlebaum has been teaching in the Special Education Program at BGSU for 26 years. She has done research on how children's literature is made accessible in various formats for students with print disabilities. In SL she is interested in providing future teachers in experiences that will help them not just experience a disability, but also feel the effects the disability has in performing typical activities both in and out of the classroom. |
 | Real Life Name: Montana Miller SL Avatar Name: avatar name goes here Title: Assistant Prof., Popular Culture A folklorist and ethnographer, Montana Miller studies youth culture and Internet communities. She is particularly interested in risk-taking performances, symbolic behavior and traditions, and vernacular expressions of belief. |
 | Real Life Name: Cassandra Jones SL Avatar Name: Tricky Reifsnider Title: Graduate student, American Culture Studies Cassandra Jones is a PhD student in American Culture Studies at Bowling Green State University. Her research centers on issues of embodiment regarding body size and racial authenticity and the replication/representation of these in popular culture outlets including online communities. |
 | Real Life Name: Richard Anderson SL Avatar Name: RichAnderson Alter Title: Associate Professor, Psychology Dr. Anderson teaches courses in general psychology, research methods, and cognition. He directs a cognitive laboratory that includes graduate as well as undergraduate student researchers, with a current focus on how people perceive, process, and remember information they obtain from small samples, and how they generalize that information to large populations. Dr. Anderson also administers a group within Second Life called "Cognitive Science." |
 | Real Life Name: Todd Childers SL Avatar Name: Petrarch Oatsmill Title: Associate Professor of Graphic Design My avatar is Petrarch Oatsmill, named after the Renaissance Humanist scholar and proponent of Humanist Hand calligraphy, Petrarch. Humanist Hand calligraphy is a form of Renaissance calligraphy which is meant to express the spirit of classical Roman art and literature. I am using the dimensionality of Second Life as a creative venue to explore the structure of Humanist Hand calligraphy via a dimensional font in a dimensional typographic page/space. Pedagogically, Second Life dimensionality is used to reveal the Humanist Hand's relationship to Oldstyle serif typography as it mimics the changes of weight seen in the strokes of a calligrapher's pen. |
 | Real Life Name: Franklin Nii Yartey SL Avatar Name: Frankie Nubalo Title: Graduate Assistant in the School of Media and Communications Frankie Nubalo has been a resident of since the beginning of 2009. Nubalo is still trying to create an identity for himself through consumption and interaction with Second Life residents. He is currently deciding whether to transform into a vampire or not. |
 | Real Life Name: Deepa Oommen SL Avatar Name: Title: |
| | Real Life Name: Michael Kudela SL Avatar Name: mkudel Bender Title: Instructional Designer, IDEAL/CEE |
Past Learning Community Members
 | Real Life Name: Dena Eber SL Avatar Name: Dena Sideways Title: Associate Professor / Chair, Digital Arts |
| | Real Life Name: Hassan Rajaei SL Avatar Name: unknown Title: Professor, Computer Science |
 | Real Life Name: Audra Magermans SL Avatar Name: Vesta Dreamscape Title: Instructor, Architecture, VCTE Vesta Dreamscape is an aspiring individual who explores the various types of virtual architecture. She is a great enthusiast of reflexive and responsive architecture and hopes to break apart from the representation of the real and come closer to the representation of the surreal and ephemeral. Vesta is currently part of the designing team for the COBL building in the BGSU Island and is the representative of the BGSU Architecture Program in Second Life. Upon approval, she will be conducting a summer workshop on Architecture in Second Life, as part of her research on the use of Second Life as a tool to teach Architectural Design in real life. |
 | Real Life Name: Radhika Gajjala SL Avatar Name: rad Zabibha Title: Associate Prof., Interpersonal Communication Rad Zabibha is a both a researcher of online embodiment, a teacher in SL and also a business owner who sells "handloom" products online - see: http://cyberdivalivesl.blogspot.com for more information about her business and life on SL. |
| | Real Life Name: Sharon Collinwood SL Avatar Name: Title: Associate Professor, Women's studies, Dept. French & Italian, The Ohio State University
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| | Real Life Name: Chris Collins SL Avatar Name: Title: IT Analyst and researcher, University of Cinncinati
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| | Real Life Name: Chris Wammes SL Avatar Name: Title: Web Applications Developer, ITS
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 | Real Life Name: Gerry Davis I am at BGSU with the Northwest Ohio Educational Technology Foundation. I work with both pre-service and in-service K-12 teachers. I work mostly in the fields of new technologies and designing online courses in synchronous and asynchronous environments. The convergence between computers and handheld devices and the implication for education is one area of interest. The use of MUVES in distance education is another. |
 | Real Life Name: Kay Strong SL Avatar Name: Professor Watanabe Title: Associate Prof., Economics, Applied Science & Future Studies, BGSU Firelands An econometrician by training and a futurist by practice, Kay Strong serves as Director for the Institute for the Future at BGSU Firelands. Her research on active learning pedagogies for the classroom emphasizes the use of technology for supporting self-learning; Calibrated Peer Review, SimEcon and Second Life. Dragging economics out of the world of A. Smith's "pin factory" into the 21st century's Web 2.0 one is a personal mission of Kay's. |
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