English 680V: Visual Rhetoric in a Technological Age (Purdue)

Hey gang, thought it might be helpful for us to all make an official post on either what we’ve done, or at least, what areas we’re looking at before we write the script and make el movie.

I’m basically assembling a hypertext annotated bibliography of SL specific research and musings. On the one hand, there’s not a whole lot of writings online that deal with SL education specifically. On the other hand, there is actually quite a bit of writings online that deal with SL education specifically (ha, contradictory statement!). The challenge is sifting through it to decide what is lengthy and useful enough to conclude. Many newspapers published short articles on SL education uses, but they are very surface level and hardly useful . . . not on the level of say Intellagirl who posts dissertation research notes and musings. At this point the bib is split into two sections: one for education specific and one for general. The general section is where I’m practicing the most discretion– I can’t include every mention of SL in the media, so I’m trying to weed out the “SL is cool” material and include things that seem to consider the platform in complex or, at least, intellectually considered manners.

The goal for the bib I suppose is still to include it on studentavatar.com– hey, Cat, do we own that URL yet?

So I think we’re still on the have an epic script writing sit down at some point near the end of February. A big epic lair party of script writing madness where we all pool the individual research we’ve been doing this month. Looking forward to it!