High wired : on the design, use, and theory of educational MOOs / Cynthia Haynes and Jan Rune Holmevik, editors ; foreword by Sherry Turkle

Published:: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2001]
Copyright Date:: ©2001
Edition:: 2nd ed.
Physical Description:: xix, 347 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Additional Creators:: Haynes, Cynthia (Cynthia A.) and Holmevik, Jan Rune

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Contents:

Preface to second edition -- Foreword : all MOOs are educational : the experience of "walking through the self" / Sherry Turkle -- Introduction : "From the faraway nearby" / Cynthia Haynes and Jan Rune Holmevik -- Concepts and contexts. Finding one's own in cyberspace / Amy Bruckman -- Not just a game : how LambdaMOO came to exist and what it did to get back at me / Pavel Curtis -- How to use, set up, and administer a MOO. How to MOO without making a sound : a guide to the virtual communities known as MOOs / Jorge R. Barrios and Deanna Wilkes-Gibbs -- MOO educational tools / Ken Schweller -- Taking the MOO by the horns : how to design, set up, and manage an educational MOO / Jan Rune Holmevik -- Day-to-day MOO administration and how to survive it / Shawn P. Wilbur -- Educational and professional use of MOOs. HELP! There's a MOO in this class! / Cynthia Haynes -- At home in the MUD : writing centers learn to wallow / Eric Crump -- Defending your life in MOOspace : a report from the electronic edge / Dene Grigar and John F. Barber -- The play's the thing : theatricality and the MOO environment / Juli Burk -- MOO meditations. Bodies in place : real politics, real pedagogy, and virtual space / Beth Kolko -- (Non)fiction('s) addiction(s) : a narcoanalysis of virtual worlds / D. Diane Davis -- Of MOOs, folds, and non-reactionary virtual communities / Victor J. Vitanza -- Songs of thy selves : persistence, momentariness, recurrence and the MOO / Michael Joyce -- Appendix : Xpress, the enCore difference / Jan Rune Holmevik and Cynthia Hayne.

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0472088386

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Includes bibliographical references.

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