A group of senior students (Joe Peric, John Bachynski, Andrew McNiven, and Nicki Darbyson) led by Kevin Kee, are currently working on a simulation/strategy game exploration of the world of 1885 Montreal, and its devastating encounter with smallpox. The event is chronicled in Michael Bliss’s book, Plague – the story of a horrifying smallpox epidemic [...]
Here is a movie of a walkthrough of a project which combines the online world of Second Life with the online learning management system Moodle: Sloodle!
Shawn’s presentation at Brock’s Immersive Worlds conference, held in June 2007, may be listened to here: The Virtual Archaeologist: Of Past Lives and Second Lives Abstract: Archaeology is about material culture, about exploring the human condition (not necessarily in the past) through how we create and manipulate objects. In recent years, the power of computers [...]
Henry Jenkins, interviewed for the Chronicle of Higher Education: Henry Jenkins, co-director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was one of the first scholars to study Trekkies and other fans of popular media. For decades, he argues, those fans have been on the cutting edge of the trend of [...]