In a Strange Land

At face value, the latest rejection of AI in writing classrooms from the Conference on College Composition and Communication does not sound...

 I'm fond of The Atlantic ; I've subscribed for more than 4 decades. I also enjoy Tyler Austin Harper's articles; his 2024 piece...

  As I noted in my last post, a student in my May-term class committed academic dishonesty in a reading journal I'd sought to make AI-...

A colleague in senior administration at OSU sent me a notice about their new AI initiative . It's so at odds, in a healthy manner, with ...

Location: Virtual House of Usher Is it to be "that's all, folks," in the immortal words of Porky Pig?  In twenty minutes...

Location: Undisclosed Here are two final clues for the FYS 100 students' hunts. Since the House of Usher is full of clues (see image...

Location: Undisclosed Location For the House of Usher simulation, we've always included clues in the virtual House itself. Now for w...

Location: VWER venue It will be a fun meeting tomorrow, with the topic "Tell Santa: What Simulation Do YOU Want in STEM, the Arts, ...

Location: Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable Celia Pearce image from her Web site Tom Boellstorff image by Olivia Hotshot I...

Location: VWER meeting In my last post, I focused on the in-world features of an educator-built virtual world. Next week we'll deba...

Location: Thinking Cap in Place After my few posts about Cloud Party and Glitch , I began pulling together a list of features that I...

Location: Cebarkul and Far Afield I will admit, in starting this post, that some of the material was probably in the pre-Beta Beta (or w...

Location: Pathfinder Lester's Home, Jibe In class on Monday, I plan to discuss why I don't think Second Life or OpenSim are good...

Location: Old-Timey Internet 1.0 & 2.0 Quite often, educators discuss the shortcomings of virtual-world technology or providers. The...

Location: Virtual House of Usher "What do you think of our home, my friend?" I asked this in character as Roderick Usher, as th...

Location: Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable I ran a transcript of a talk by Georgia Tech faculty members Robert Todd and Chris Langsto...

Location: Attic, Virtual House of Usher I'm close to finishing the SL build, at least to the point where I'll open the doors for...

  Location: Virtual House of Usher, Second Life The work in Jokaydia Grid last semester gave my students the chance to sound off about r...

Location: Jokaydia Grid, Virtual House of Usher With some glitches along the way, six groups of students completed their final exams, or...

  Location: Reading Jon Himoff's Blog From The Ivory Tower It has been a while since I've written about Rezzable's work, but ...