| ACS 3000 | Women in Sci-Fi |
| Cassandra Jones | Ph.D. Student | American Culture Studies |
| Spring and Summer 2008 |
| This class used Second Life to demonstrate how science fiction fan groups expressed their fandom visually, paying particular attention to ways in which gender and sexuality were (re)constructed in the digital realm. Each class was conducted in Second Life, using a classroom on the BGSU virtual campus as their 'home base'. |
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| ACS 7800 | Gaming Cultures and Globalization |
| Radhika Gajjala | Associate Professor | Interpersonal Communication |
| Spring 2008 |
| Not Available |
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| ART 1020 | 2D Foundations |
| Anthony Fontana | Instructor | School of Art |
| Fall 2007, Spring, Summer and Fall 2008 |
| This class uses Second Life in several different ways. First, as a means of interviewing multimedia artists working with Second Life as a platform for the creation and exhibition of art. Students are able to interact with and learn from international artists. The virtual world has also been used to teach the students about symbolism and context. The assignment asks the students to explore the interface we have with symbols in the real world compared to the virtual world. The final project consists of the construction of a symbol or sign that directly relates to the environment and experiences on the BGSU Virtual Campus in Second Life. |
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| ART 1010 | Introduction to Art |
| Anthony Fontana | Instructor | School of Art |
| Summer 2009 / Summer 2010 / Summer 2011 |
| ART101 is a coordinated and dynamic online experience designed to provide students with the methods of artistic research that will allow them to translate their experience and knowledge into critical discussion and judgment of artworks. Formal elements of visual culture, online art exhibitions, and online art communities are explored in a larger context which foregrounds how materials, processes and context establish meaning. Students are encouraged to grow imaginatively and analytically by exploring areas in which different media and disciplines fruitfully overlap, thereby becoming more perceptive and responsive to themselves and the work around them, broadening their notions of art and the roles of artists. |
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| ARTC 4230 | Advanced Digital Imaging |
| Dr. Dena Eber | Associate Professor | Digital Arts |
| Spring 2008 |
| The use of SL in advanced digital imaging was twofold, first as fodder for artistic response and second as an exhibition, dissemination, and critique venue. Students were asked to familiarize themselves with SL by creating an avatar and exploring the SL culture through art galleries or art related venues. They were asked to report on their findings and then create art that was a direct response to their experience. Finally, students installed their work in world where we held a public event and opening. In it, students had their avatars stand next to their works while visitors approached and talked to them them about it. In this setting, students got feedback about their art from other artists and educators. Students also got tips on how to better navigate SL and use the platform for their art. In the end we were looking for cultural influences and implications for artistic response and for dissemination and critique of the art. In doing this we inadvertently explored ways to use SL as the art tool, which will be the next thing to study. |
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| ARTC 5330 | Interactive Art Studio |
| Bonnie Mitchell | Associate Professor | Digital Arts |
| Fall 2008 |
| The goal is to use Second Life as a platform to create interactive art installations. The modeling, scripting and animation capabilities of Second Life will be used to create environments that avatars can enter and become fully immersed in the art experience. The work produced must be grounded in a strong artistic concept and take into consideration the conceptual aspects of virtual identities, projected and shared experiences, immersion, and interactivity. |
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| C&TE 6820 | Adaptive Hypermedia and Immersive Learning Environments |
| Dr. Terry L. Herman | Assistant Professor | Visual Communication Technology |
| Spring 2008 |
| This course is an inquiry into the systematic development of personal and adaptive learning environments through the integration of immersive learning environments (such as SecondLife) and other Web 2.0 applications. They discussed new and emerging learning styles, instructional design models, and teaching strategies for a new population of students (the Digital Natives and beyond) and ways to personalize and energize learning. |
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| CSP 6030 | Theory and Assessment of Educational Environments |
| C. Carney Strange, Ph.D. | Professor | Higher Education and Student Affairs |
| Spring 2008 |
| This course devotes one week to exploring how virtual environments can be created to include, secure, engage, and invite students into the learning community we call higher education. In the class that features SL, the teacher offers an overview and then invites students to "show up" at a particular spot with their avatar to have a discussion of the learning potential of SL. In the future Dr. Strange may incorporate SL into a teaching technique he created, called "Voice Project," wherein students take on a voice other than their own (defined by gender, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, religion, age, disability, or socio-economic status), explore its dimensions throughout the semester, and integrate it with the content of the course. His thinking is that the creation of an avatar would be a helpful tool in expressing their selected voices. The class could probably meet in SL as our respective avatars and engage in some discussion of various topics on the matter. |
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| ECT 3490 | Digital Computer Analysis |
| William Scott Lehman | Instructor | Technology Systems |
| Fall 2008 |
| A couple of ECT students will be building a Mixed Reality device that will allow them to communicate information to their Avatar in Second Life and allow the Avatar to communicate with the Mxed Reality real life device. The real life device initially at least will consist of some switches and LEDs connected to the PC through a micro-controller and serial interface. We want to make the switch settings visible to Second Life avatars via a control (Sphere) and give the avatar tha ability to set the LEDs on the real life device via the Sphere. |
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| EDIS 2310 | Teaching Students with Exceptional Learning Needs |
| Linda Higbee Mandlebaum, Ph.D. | Associate Professor | School of Intervention Services |
| Spring & Fall 2008 |
| Second Life was incorporated in the following ways: (1) interview Simon Walsh, the founder of Wheelies, who has cerebral palsy in real life, (2) students were given the option to complete an activity in SL such as researching the resources available for a person with a particular disorder or for someone who might want to learn about that disorder; participate in a race between a person walking and a person in a wheelchair as each person tries to reach a school library and retrieve a copy of a specific book, followed by a discussion of the fairness of the activity, what they learned, how they might redesign the activity to make it fair, and how they might apply what they learned in their future classrooms; and spend several hours with people with disabilities at Wheelies or the region around Wheelies and blog about what they learned during the experience. |
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| IPC 4040 | Communication and Conflict |
| Ellen W. Gorsevski, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor | Department of Interpersonal Communication |
| Fall 2008 |
| Students form groups and work together to decorate the Secondlife IPC Department office space in a manner that is professional, inviting, and attractive. Students explore what conflicts or disagreements arise in the process of working together to assemble the furnishings, layout, wall coverings, and other items needed for this space. Students assess their communication processes in such conflicts and come to understand the role that communication plays in preventing, escalating, deescalating, and resolving conflict in an interpersonal context. |
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| IPC 4110 | Performing Digitally Mediated Identities |
| Radhika Gajjala | Associate Professor | Interpersonal Communication |
| Fall 2008 |
| Students use Second Life to do ethnography studies to understand the theory and practice of identity production in online 3D environments. Such work provides insight into how globalization functions through such online spaces. |
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| MIS 2000 | Introduction to MIS |
| Earl McKinney | Associate Professor | Accounting/MIS |
| Spring 2008 |
| Entrepreneur business minors in their Introduction to Management Information Systems class used Second Life to simulate entrepreneurship. To accomplish a couple of learning outcomes, they started a "business" in Second Life. |
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| POPC 4600 / POPC 6800 | Internet Communities |
| Dr. Montana Miller | Assistant Professor | Department of Popular Culture |
| Spring 2008 |
| The goal in these courses was to familiarize students with what Second Life looks like, who is using it and in what ways, and why people might be motivated to spend their time there. My students generally have not been users of Second Life, so the course tries to give them exposure to various issues that arise in Second Life: virtual violence, romantic relationships, educational initiatives, possibilities for people with disabilities, ethics of doing ethnographic research in-world, and so forth. |
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| PSYC 1010 | Introduction to Psychology |
| Dr. Richard Anderson | Associate Professor | Psychology Department |
| Spring 2011 |
| The course is a fully online course. Course activities consist primarily of discussing readings, written lectures, and taking exams that cover the readings, lectures, and discussions. The students, located as far away as Iraq, may fulfill their class discussion requirement through any combination of online discussion board participation and weekly meetings on BGSU's Second Life virtual campus. About a third of the class chooses to participate in the Second Life meetings, which take place in the instructor's Second Life virtual discussion area. The discussion area has a circular seating to encourage interactive discussion, as well as virtual whiteboards capable of displaying the course lectures or any other relevant web pages. |
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| TECH 4800 | Topics in Technology - Architecture in Second Life |
| Audra Magerman | Instructor | Department of Architecture |
| Spring 2009 | | |
| If you’ve been flying around the Virtual Campus lately you may have noticed A LOT of new projects underway! That would be Instructor Audra Magerman’s TECH 4800 Topics in Technology – Architecture in Second Life class. 14 students are taking the course this summer and are currently working on personal work spaces and departmental office spaces for BGSU Departmental use. |
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