November 23, 2007
Second Life as a Stage
I was fortunate enough to share a coffee and a quick chat Peter Miller at the JISC CETIS do earlier this week, and picked up a new lens to look at Second Life with...
(The scarey optician's gadget is called a phoropter, apparently... I was actually just looking for a box full of lenses..)
Anyway, the idea is to use Second Life as a stage, rather than a meeting place, and use it to create artefacts that can be brought into a learning activity (whether that's a lecture, or a VLE session!)...
Lysozyme1 from Peter Miller on Vimeo.
I also wondered whether worlds like Second Life could be used to provide a setting for visualised scientific models (such as in the above movie) that would induce a sense of awe - and evoke a consideration of the aesthetic - when stumbled upon by someone wandering through Second Life...
There is, after all, a fine recent history of art'n'science projects... I wonder why SciArt is no more, though?
Tags: sciart, second life
Posted by ajh59 at November 23, 2007 02:41 PM