IML2 goes online in Second Life
The IML’s brand new 64-acre parcel of land in Second Life just went online last night in time for the first meeting of CTIN 482: Designing Online Multiplayer Game Environments. The design challenge for the class this semester is to create an innovative learning space and a set of game-based learning objects as part of a virtual campus for the School of Cinematic Arts. The new space is a tabula rasa, waiting to be terraformed, designed, developed and put into practice. From here you can see both the old and new IML spaces. If you have requests for what you’d like to see in a virtual SCA campus, now is the time to make them!
Steve Anderson is an Assistant Professor of Interactive Media and Director of the Ph.D. program in Media Arts & Practice in the USC School of Cinematic Arts. He is the author of Technologies of History: Visual Media and the Eccentricity of the Past (Dartmouth 2011), co-Editor of the interdisciplinary online journal Vectors and creator of the fair use advocacy site Critical Commons. A scholar-practitioner working at the intersection of media, culture and technology, his research interests include historiography, the theory and history of emerging technologies, documentary and experimental film and video, and interactive media design.