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Building A Collaborative Online Literary Experience, Joe Essid, Fran Wilde
Building A Collaborative Online Literary Experience, Joe Essid, Fran Wilde
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Key Takeaways
-Educators and students collaborated in constructing an immersive literary experience at the University of Richmond and then reenacted the narrative as a team.
-Considerable planning goes into such simulations to make them effective collaboration spaces.
-In creating a simulation of Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher, a team of distributed groups negotiated different approaches to believably embody Poe's characters and period.
-Despite limitations in the software and the planning process during and after a beta test, students experienced Poe's story in a new and rewarding way.
Effective virtual simulations can embed participants in imaginary …