Kristin Scott

Ok — I’ve spent a little over one year now in Second Life, and I’m not terribly convinced of its educational potential for college students in the humanities. Yes, I’ve been to a variety of educational events, have seen some pretty interesting simulated literary/historical environments, have even brought my own students into this virtual environment [...]

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SLED (Second Life Educator’s discussion) recently had a few discussion posts about architecture and space within Second Life that I found to be interesting. Indeed, why are we creating spaces within SL that almost always mimic RL? But even when they utilize really unusual colors and lines within the space, you still find very typically [...]

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I found the greatest village yesterday! It’s called Bryggen & Norwegian Waterfalls Norway at Alebi (103, 19, 34). Not only do they have some of the coolest waterfalls in SL, there is an underwater display that’s well worth getting wet to see. I had an entire conversation with a young woman underwater while a dolphin and various fish swam around [...]

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So I’ve had a full week off now from teaching; summer classes begin today. I’m teaching Reviewing the Arts again, a class that I’ve really come to enjoy teaching. In the last section of the course, I’ve been having the students consider the burgeoning art in virtual worlds, specifically in Second Life. But having them [...]

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Ok, I know, I’ve been horrible at keeping up this blog the last month or so. What can I say? To teachers, all I have to say is: “the end of the semester,” and I get sympathy, knowing nods, responses like “enough said.” But the end of one semester leads very quickly into another. I’ll [...]

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Last Thursday evening, I brought my Reviewing the Arts class over to the Interactive Arts and Media department for a Visiting Artists lecture series presentation. Educator and artist, John Craig Freeman (a.k.a. JC Fremont in Second Life), flew in from Emerson College in Boston to talk about his current project “Imaging Place,” a “place-based, virtual [...]

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