Teaching Literature in Virtual Worlds: Immersive Learning in English Studies

ISBN-13: 9780415886284 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 208 str.

Allen Webb

Opis

What are the realities and possibilities of utilizing on-line virtual worlds as teaching tools for specific literary works? Through engaging and surprising stories from classrooms where virtual worlds are in use, this book invites readers to understand and participate in this emerging and valuable pedagogy.

Spis treści

Preface  1. Introduction  2. A Virtual World for Lord of the Flies: Engaging Students and Meeting Common Core Standards  3. Midsummer Madness and Virtual Tempest: Shakespeare as Foolish Role-Play Game  4. From Migrant Labor to High Society: Of Mice and Men and The Great Gatsby in Virtual Worlds  5. Teaching Things Fall Apart in the Village of Umuofia  6. Content Learning in Literary Virtual Worlds: The Village of Umuofia  7. Building a Secondary Brave New World  8. Riffing on the Pied Piper: Combining Research and Creativity  9. Virtual Flanerie: Strolling through Mrs. Dalloway’s London  10. "Virtual Museums: British Literary Works in Historical and Cultural Context"  11. "The Kindness of Strangers": Angels in America in a Virtual World 12. From MUDs to Metaverses: The Past and Future of Immersive Literary Worlds  13. On The Building of Worlds Contributors  Bibliography

O autorze

Allen Webb is Professor of English Education and Postcolonial Studies at Western Michigan University.