The most recent issue of John Carroll University’s alumni magazine features professors who are utilizing the 3D virtual world Second Life as a virtual classroom, bringing together distant professors and students.

In this case, a professor working on a novel that included Second Life (Black Market Truth by Sharon Kaye, October 2008) included it in a proposal for a social justice seminal series called First Year Seminar. Other professors caught on to the idea and passed it along to students, using SL in 2008 as a base for discussing and generating ideas in implementing Utopian ideas.

Jack Thompson, Miami attorney and anti-game activist who has been hounding the gaming and music industry for a while. Now his career is in jeopardy as he fights to keep his license at the Florida Bar hearings this week. Looking through archives of news, news panels and blogs Thompson has been trouble off and on more »