I have spoken with Sarah “Intellagirl” Robbins on a handful of occasions, and have always found her to be nothing short of wonderful. She is a doc student at Ball State University and teaches a few courses in Second Life.
Her local paper did a nice write-up. Go check it out here.
And if you need a good laugh, zoom into the photo and look what the sticker in the upper corner of her laptop says. I don’t like the language at all (warning: cursing) but the fact that the paper didn’t notice is a bit funny.
The part of the article I find most interesting is when Sarah says this:
“In 20 minutes we get about 10 to 20 pages of
dialogue,” she said. “We have great discussions that extend beyond what
we’d be able to do in a traditional classroom.”
I have to wonder about the quality of the dialogue. Part of me says that it would be more flowing because students can tend to be more comfortable in an IM-style environment, whereas they might tend to be a bit more cautious about how they form sentences, and possibly a bit more thoughtful about what they say in a more traditional literary circle (or generic classroom setting). I dunno.
I’d be curious to see these notes pages. Maybe I’ll ask her…
I also just learned she has her own page in Wikipedia. Wow.
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Wow- She’s a hoot and very interesting. No I want to be in Wikipedia. Too bad i don’t have enough for anyone to say about me. Wikipedia seems like an awesome forum for a testimony, doesn’t it?