Hello and welcome to my Second Life blog! My name is Kevin Jarrett. Let me tell you a little about this project.
In February I received a $10,000 Faculty Excellence Grant from Walden University (where I teach part-time) to study Second Life (SL) and its implications for education at a distance. Thanks to this generous grant, I will be taking a leave of absence from my teaching duties so I can spend at least four to six months exploring, investigating and experimenting in SL. My vision is to essentially immerse myself in SL as an educator, documenting the experience in real time. I know that with the right tools, the right input, the right contacts, the right perspective, and enough time, I can create a practical resource of great value for educators who wish to use SL with their students, and to learn about it for themselves.
There are people who believe (I am one of them) that the 3D world of SL is the future of the web. I want to thank Walden University for giving me the opportunity to explore this technology as a Faculty Excellence Fund scholar. I will know my project has been a success when the value I have created for Walden and for the SL community far exceeds the cost of the grant.
Please feel free to explore the rest of this site and get in touch with me if you have questions or would like to get involved with my study.
Thanks for visiting. See you in-world!
Kevin Jarrett (KJ Hax)
Part Time Faculty, Graduate School of Education
Walden University
kjarrett (at) waldenu (dot) edu
