MySpace Class Project

Here's just one of many examples of how instructors are using the virtual world for classroom projects. A fellow graduate student at LSU (Daniel Mangiavellano) created a group project in his ENGL 3022 course that requested the class to create myspaces pages for various authors. Making use of this informal communication site, Mangiavellano was able to merge a "trendy" communication method with pedagogical objectives. Last time I spoke with him about this project, he was writing an article on the experience. It will be interesting to see what develops. In the meantime, we can be virtual friends with Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde, and Matthew Arnold (to name a few)!