Teaching Literature in Virtual Worlds (eBook, PDF)

Immersive Learning in English Studies
Redaktion: Webb, Allen

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Through reports from classrooms where on-line virtual worlds are in use, this book invites readers to consider the realities and possibilities of this emerging and valuable pedagogy for teaching specific literary works.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136863745
• Artikelnr.: 38279327

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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