During the (Australian) Summer I was invited by incredible and passionate-about-education-in-virtual-worlds colleague Nick Noakes to participate in the Virtual Worlds and Language workshops held in Second Life (link to the associated ning here). I conducted a few tours through Macbeth and talked with participants about some principles for education in a virtual world. Today Nick shared [...]
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Virtual Worlds and Language Learning
Posted in Digital Media Researchers, Literature, Media and Popular Culture, New Media Literacies, Second Life, cyberculture, digital fiction, tagged virtualmacbeth on March 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tough Chicks and Femme Fatales in Film and Video Games
Posted in Digital Media Researchers, Second Life, cyberculture, tagged avatar, feminism, performance, the avatar, video games on March 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I wanted to share this great slideshow courtesy of my SL friend and fellow Australian virtual worlds researcher, Joanna Robinson. Joanna works and studies at the GNWC Centre for Digital Media in Vancouver and is a leading presence for digital media studies in Second Life. Her work is very cool and theoretically rigorous – enjoy!
Floating in Poetry
Posted in Literature, New Media Literacies, Second Life on March 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Have you ever floated in and around and through words? In a dreamlike and yes, poetic, experience, I enjoyed drifting through ‘love’s fair brow’, ‘time’s fickle glass’ and ‘knowledge as in hue’. Try it for yourself, here.
Inanimate Alice – Music, remixes and retellings
Posted in Media and Popular Culture, digital fiction, tagged inanimatealice, music on March 30, 2009 | 6 Comments »
(Hecate, from Inanimate Alice)
Ironically, days *after* doing my Digital Fiction workshop which had a strong focus on Inanimate Alice, I am only now discovering things I could have included in my workshop to enhance it! For example, did you know that if you signed up to Alice’s newsletter, “she” becomes [...]
Soy Tu Aire (I am your Air)
Posted in Media and Popular Culture, digital fiction, tagged cross-media storytelling, interactive music, soy tu aire on March 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Listen to this incredible, evocative song and watch the wonderful music video that accompanies it. Then interact with the narrative of the song, by going to Labuat. Make sure you move your cursor like a paint brush across the screen as the song crosses the space and takes its emotional journey with you, allowing you [...]
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
Posted in Literature, Second Life, cyberculture, digital fiction, tagged virtualmacbeth on March 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I created a Virtual Macbeth group on flickr so that I’d be able to view and enjoy the fun other people were having on Macbeth – and it is indeed a thrill every time somebody adds a new photo to the pool, or adds the tag virtualmacbeth to their flickr image. So far there are [...]
New Writing Universe
Posted in Literature, Media and Popular Culture, New Media Literacies, digital fiction, tagged australiancouncil on March 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
At the end of last year, the Australian Council for the Arts published The writer’s guide to making a digital living. The authors are Therese Fingleton, Christy Dena, and Jennifer Wilson. Christy has been a long time friend of mine since my early days in Second Life, and I met Therese whilst working on the [...]
Making our own Digital Fiction
Posted in New Media Literacies, digital fiction, tagged xtranormal on March 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This afternoon we made our own Digital Fiction using various tools. The above was made in around 15 minutes, using the amazing (and free!) text-to-movie software, xtranormal.
Inanimate Alice
Posted in Literature, New Media Literacies, digital fiction, tagged inanimatealice on March 28, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Today in my Certificate of Digital Literacies workshop we’re studying Inanimate Alice!
No Clean Feed
Posted in cyberculture, tagged acma, EFF, internet censorship, nocleanfeed, QandA on March 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In the past two weeks or so there has been enormous controversy over an alleged “leaked wikilinks” site to the Australian Government sanctioned “blacklist” of sites banned from Australia.
Last night, the ABC aired a program called “QandA” in which the Minister for Communication, Stephen Conroy, attempted to address the issue of censorship and the outrage [...]
British Primary Schools to Teach Twitter
Posted in New Media Literacies, tagged twitter on March 26, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Twitter has really entered mainstream consciousness! Everybody is “a-twitter”! And so too are new curriculum designers in the UK. A report from the Guardian yessterday announced that the new curriculum proposes the following:
Children to leave primary school familiar with blogging, podcasts, Wikipedia and Twitter as sources of information and forms of communication. They must gain [...]
New Media Literacies
Posted in Digital Media Researchers, New Media Literacies on March 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Oh! This video provides a great overview and definition of New Media Literacies.
Members of the research team at Project New Media Literacies discuss the social skills and cultural competencies needed to fully engage with today’s participatory culture. Featuring Henry Jenkins, and produced by Anna Van Someren at Project New Media Literacies. [...]
Angela Thomas: Liminal Agent
Posted in cyberculture, tagged boundaries, liminal agent, unknown on March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
These past few days I have had various meetings with colleagues interested in blogging, social media, and Second Life. Somehow the word must have trickled through the system to others that I am using social media for various purposes, and people are interested. It’s really affirming for me to talk with them and to have [...]
Ada Lovelace: Enchantress of Numbers
Posted in cyberculture on March 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Today is Ada Lovelace day! Ada Lovelace was a 19th century British writer and mathematician who is considered the first ever programmer and the founder of modern computing. Her friend and colleague Charles Babbage called her “The Enchantress of Numbers”. This year is the first year of what is hoped to be an annual celebration [...]
Children’s Literature Class
Posted in Literature, tagged children's literature, Literature on March 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here are some of my fabulous Children’s Literature students presenting some ideas for working with Neil Gaiman’s Coraline. Students were asked to develop and share learning experiences which could be used in classrooms to encourage children to explore characterisation, symbolism, and themes of a text in a creative way. I was very inspired by their [...]
“Don’t you Twitterstand?”
Posted in New Media Literacies, cyberculture on March 22, 2009 | 8 Comments »
This satirical look at twitter made me laugh. I am now 2 years into twitter and (like other social media use) I have my phases of being very active and not so active. But twitter has grown by over 2000% in the past year, thanks to all the celebrities who have [...]
New Grant!
Posted in Second Life, cyberculture, digital fiction on March 21, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Last month I learned that an application for funding for a research project I proposed was successful! It is a grant of $52,000 from the University of Sydney and the project title is: Innovative Pedagogy in Virtual Worlds.
I am working with colleagues from a number of other faculties on the project – medicine, pharmacy, engineering [...]
Virtual Macbeth participates in World Storytelling Day
Posted in Second Life, cyberculture on March 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Virtual Macbeth is going to be participating in the Virtual Worlds Story Project, a project running in Second Life as part of the celebrations of World Storytelling Day!
In details sent to me by the organisers, “The Story Quest brings writers from around the globe to participate in a fun-filled and challenging story writing exercise to [...]
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