Resources SL « Other articles are posted under categories on this blog (‘teaching, learning and virtual worlds’, for example) Updates, Feb 2009 – More journal articles are becoming available, as are entire special issues on virtual worlds and learning.
These include ALT-J 16(3), a Special Issue titled Learning and Teaching in Immersive Virtual Worlds (IVWs), edited by Maggi Savin Baden and Robert Ward (January 09), a forthcoming British Journal and Education and Technology, Special issue, ‘Out of This World: 3-D MUVEs in Higher Education’ 40 (3) due in April – and, later in 2009, an interesting sounding special issue from the London Review of Education on Being online: a critical view of identity and subjectivity in new virtual learning spaces’.
The time in Second Life is US Pacific Time, or San Francisco time so the UK is 8 hours ahead in summer. And here’s a world clock conversion. Second Life. Your Life Miniaturized! The Mellon Grant at the University of Minnesota Libraries.