Second Life
Second Life is a virtual environment where its over 7.5 million residents
can build, shop, play, and interact with each other. UCI Libraries has
purchased an island in Second Life which we named Anteater Island
found at the slurl http://slurl.com/secondlife/Anteater%20Island/152/188/26/.
The purposes of this investment are to foster and support creative design
through course-related instruction and faculty research. In previous quarters
courses such as Computer Games as Art, Culture and Technology (US 12) and
Reasoning and Modeling with Graphical Models (ICS 295) made using Anteater
Island an integral part of the syllabus. Student teams in these classes
not only used Second Life as a platform to build computer games, they also
used it as a collaborative work environment. UCI Libraries wants to partner
with creative faculty who are interested in this new technology. Participation
could be limited to holding a single class session in Second Life to using
a parcel of the island for an entire quarter.
Second Life Links
For more information, contact Julia Gelfand at jgelfand@uci.edu.
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