Jeff McNeill

A student asked me some questions about distance education and virtual worlds, and I provided the following basic impressions (light on links, lets just get this posted for now). I think that research into the actual stats and studies would be of more help. Check out AERA and Horizon Report, and other distance ed stuff [...]

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"We don’t build websites anymore…"

Posted in opencontent, opensource, visualization, web2.0, wiki on Feb 17th, 2007

This is an important, if hyperbolic, statement as it relates to how we understand, and help mentor our students in terms of website design and development.
My current understanding is that websites, instead of being “designed” and “coded” as in the days of old, are now becoming more like collections of one or more of the [...]

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Play references

Posted in augmentation, brand, inworld, secondlife, simulation, visualization on Feb 8th, 2007

My presentation to fellow Communication and Information Sciences doctoral students today is on __Play: Research in Multi-User Virtual Environments__. The following references are available for further investigation:
* [Aedhmar Hynes, CEO, Text100](http://mondaymorning.typepad.com/monday_morning/2006/11/first_lessons_f.html) (First lessons in Second Life)
* [Irving Wladawsky-Berger, Vice President, Technical Strategy and Innovation, IBM](http://irvingwb.typepad.com/blog/2006/09/index.html) (3d Internet)
* [Sarah "Intellagirl" Robins, Doctoral Student, Ball State University](http://www.citeulike.org/user/intellagirl) [...]

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