Virtual Worlds: Moving Through time and space: US Revolutionary War

[Lori Bell]

Course at SJSU this summer: Virtual Worlds: Moving TH\hrough Time and
Space: US Revolutionary War. The San Jose State School of Information will
offer an immersive learning course this summer in the virtual world of
Second Life.  The course is:  287-10 – Virtual Worlds: Moving Through Time
and Space: U.S. Revolutionary War.

YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE A CURRENT STUDENT TO TAKE THIS COURSE. You can take
this course through the open education initiative. A minimum of 12 students
is required for the course to run. For more information on how to sign up
through the open education initiative, go to
http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/programs/ischool-open-classes/enrollment

This course will immerse students in the United States Revolutionary War
(1700-1790). Students will meet or become one of the fascinating characters
of this period or a fictional character living in the U.S. Colonial Period.
Take on the role of General George Washington, Martha Washington, Benjamin
Franklin, John Hancock, Paul Revere, a fictional settler, Mary Musgrove or
any number of historic figures as the class discusses and re-enacts
historic events such as the Boston Tea Party, and signing of the
Declaration of Independence.

Based on research conducted into the events taking place during the
Colonial Period, students will create and participate in an immersive
role-playing experience. The experience will introduce how a virtual world
can create community and teach students an innovative way to serve as
leaders in portraying knowledge, history and documents in creative and
educational ways using virtual world technologies.

Students from previous classes built all the buildings and constructed the
roleplay activities that will take place.  We need more students for the
course to run, so hope you will sign up.
For more information on the course, please contact Lori Bell at
lbell927 at gmail.com.

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