UNC- Creating Engaging, Collaborative Learning Spaces in Second Life

Creating Authentic and Engaging Community-Oriented Learning Spaces: Using Second Life in Higher Education Classrooms Sarah “Intellagirl” Robbins UNC-CH March 26, 2007 www.intellagirl.com [email_address]

We all have multiple identities. What identities do you have?

Relationships : mother, daughter, son, brother, second cousin once removed etc
Professions : student, waitress, teacher, ninja
Activity : football player, painter, wombat breeder
Personality : class clown, shy, sulking reject
Style : jock, pretty girl, Emo (aka sulking reject)

Online spaces have their own identities.

Personal website Relationship Profession Activity Personality Style

My Space Relationship Profession Activity Personality Style

Facebook Relationship Profession Activity Personality Style

LinkedIn: Professional Networking Relationship Profession Activity Personality Style

Del.icio.us: Social Bookmarking Relationship Profession Activity Personality Style

Skype or other VOIP or IM Client Relationship Profession Activity Personality Style

Photo or Media Sharing Relationship Profession Activity Personality Style

Avatars Relationship Profession Activity Personality Style

Gee’s Three Identities
Virtual: One’s identity as a virtual character
Gee, James Paul. What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy . New York: Palgrave. 2003.
Real: The identity of the user behind the character
Projective: The real as the virtual. The US we put in a character

What are the identities expressed in a learning space?

Relationship? Profession? Activity? Personality? Style? Real? Virtual? Projected?

Selfe and Selfe (1994)
Interfaces express a set of dominant identities and relations within a given social context.
A limited set of options for self-representation , expression , and interaction , shapes the kinds of identity and modes of communication that are possible.

In Second Life , WE create the interface . What politics , social constraints , and potential identities are we building in to our learning spaces?

To learn authentically, we must be allowed to be our real selves.

To be engaged, we must work toward a virtual , ideal, identity.

To form community, we must share our projected potentials.

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