Second Life Virtual Hallucinations
Thought I'd add to the previous post's theme by pointing you towards a (fairly famous) simulation in SL that attempts to portray the 'experience' of suffering the auditory and visual hallucinations of psychotic disorders. It was, apparently, created by a psychiatrist with the aim of demonstrating the phenomenology of this condition to his students. Although the video is a bit slow off the mark and can't quite capture the experience of being at the sim and being 'subjected' to the unexpected and bizarre shifts in perception, I thought I'd flag it as it's worth a visit when you'e ever in-world. Here's the video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=E4JUzxaQVcE, here's a review of the sim: http://freshtakes.typepad.com/sl_communicators/2006/08/virtual_halluci.html and here's the Grid Ref to visit it when you're next in SL Sedig, 26/45/22.
You might like to track down any other uses of SL for education on paychopathology or even treatment sims. Just Google away.
On a different note, how about visiting one of the many university campuses in SL. Here's a list of them: http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Institutions_and_Organizations_in_SL#UNIVERSITIES.2C_COLLEGES_.26_SCHOOLS If you explore the links you'll find lots of videos illustrating their campuses, etc. Here's the San Jose Campus vid to start you off.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-9zt3Sd7oc&NR=1
On the subject of affordances....do the recognised affordances of cyberspace really facilitate learning and teaching superior to that offline ? Would you like to 'attend' virtual classes? What would the benefits / disadvantages be? Would you really learn more and better and why? Would the experience of university be better...or can it, at best, only complement real life campus experience and methods (OK, I'll leave you alone now) :)
You might like to track down any other uses of SL for education on paychopathology or even treatment sims. Just Google away.
On a different note, how about visiting one of the many university campuses in SL. Here's a list of them: http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Institutions_and_Organizations_in_SL#UNIVERSITIES.2C_COLLEGES_.26_SCHOOLS If you explore the links you'll find lots of videos illustrating their campuses, etc. Here's the San Jose Campus vid to start you off.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-9zt3Sd7oc&NR=1
On the subject of affordances....do the recognised affordances of cyberspace really facilitate learning and teaching superior to that offline ? Would you like to 'attend' virtual classes? What would the benefits / disadvantages be? Would you really learn more and better and why? Would the experience of university be better...or can it, at best, only complement real life campus experience and methods (OK, I'll leave you alone now) :)
4 comments:
I'd like to attend a virtual class. Though i think it would only add to a real life campus experience, aside that you are still just sat at a computer, I cannot imagine you would get the same sense of learning... given the temptation to do other things at the same time as the class.
It could prove to be a useful tool. No distractions from late-comers, a comfortable seat, and you could save the transcript or record the audio for later use.
But would you really feel (after osme time) that you were 'just sat at a computer'? Your avatar would be in front of you, sat in the classroom, in front of the lecturer. Do you think that it might start to take on a first-person perspective after a while?
I really wouldn't like to attend a virtual class and I don't think it would take on a first person perspective for me. If the doorbell or phone went then I'd be answering it whereas there are fewer distractions in class although I take the point about late comers.
It would be much easier to miss a lecture.
However I do wonder if younger students who have been 'brought up' with virtual life being their "second life" may well find it beneficial, being able to attend lectures when they wanted, if they recorded them, not on Friday afternoons!
So who knows what the future might bring ;) (did I just wink?)
Avro...yes,you did ;)
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