We’ve had a small group at Texas State exploring the educational potential of games and simulations for about a year now. A few months back, our director became very interested in Second Life, a virtual world with entirely user-created content. Emin, one of my coworkers, has since been building a lovely virtual space for use by the University populace within Second Life.
In preparation for a conference this weekend, Emin put together a tour of Texas State’s island. Behold, the Bobcat Village tour:
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Hi, my name is Glynn Jordan, I’m a features reporter for the University Star at Texas State and I was hoping you might be able to help me with an article I’m writing about this. If you have a chance sometime today to give me a little bit of info about Texas State in Second Life I would greatly appreciate it. I was hoping to find out how this all got worked out. Who put this all together? When will new things be happening with Texas State in Second Life and what specifically? What other universities are on Second Life? Why did the people initiating this feel it was something they wanted to do? Anything at all like that would be extremely helpful. So please get back to me as soon as you can.
Thanks a lot!
Glynn Jordan