Kristin Scott

I just brought my fiction writing students down to the Portfolio Center (Columbia College Chicago) for a discussion with some folks about blogging, and it was a great event! Columbia alumnus, D. Littlejohn, author of Advertising for Peanuts, was here with Journalism faculty member Barbara Iverson, author of CurrentBuzz, and novelist and freelance writer Ben [...]

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Interesting, that just after I wrote about identity and what I believe is our inability to leave our real life identity behind when in virtual reality, I find out that this is exactly what Sarah Robbins (aka: Intellagirl) talked about when she was here at Columbia College Chicago this past week. I wasn’t able to [...]

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Lately, I’ve had a lot of students suggest that anything and/or everything in the virtual world is “not real.” Their logic often follows that since the virtual world is not real, nor the objects within it, neither are those representations of “ourselves” we often call avatars. And then while in Second Life, while perusing various [...]

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Ok, it’s official. I’m feeling like a child with the weight of the world on my shoulders! I want to PLAY!!! But I’m so incredibly busy right now, I don’t know half the time if I’m coming or going, or which classroom I’m teaching in, in which building, or what student I’m seeing at what [...]

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This weekend, I tried to focus a bit more on networking with other educators in SL and finding some interesting locations. I visited the various campuses and tried to hook up with a few more educator groups. I also explored this really great weather simulation site by the NOAA (National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration). Yes, [...]

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I’m feeling a little on the scattered side today . . . am grading midterm papers, just took on two handfuls of scholarship students to advise, have students emailing me with tons of questions, and am beginning to make several good connections with faculty from all over the world (so I want to further develop [...]

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