MMORG and Teaching/Learning

Found a guy named John Savery (U. of Akron) through a colleague here...He's done work in the educational potential of MMORG's for classroom practice. I sent him an e-mail, no response yet...

Along similar lines, ran across this grant proposal which lays out how you might actually use MMORG in a K-12 classroom as well as some key citations we might want to check out.

We need to check out Civ3 to see if this might have more potential for the social studies classroom...

A few other pieces:

• MMORPG’s in the college classroom
• NECC presentation outline: Video Games as Constructivist Learning Environments (http://topics.typepad.com/pondering/games/index.html)
• Rochester Castle MMORPG: Instructional gaming and collaborative learning at a Western Australian school: includes a "where to start" section...
• A Second Life 'action research' study blog: http://www.secondlife.intellagirl.com/2006/06/26/working-toward-an-outilne/