Collaboration in Second Life Project

This site describes an ongoing collaborative teaching and research project in Second Life^®, a virtual world.

Project team members include:

• Dr. Lynnette Leonard (at American University in Bulgaria),
• Dr. Lesley Withers (Central Michigan University),
• Dr. John Sherblom (University of Maine), and
• Dr. Jeffrey Smith (Central Michigan University).

We are instructors, researchers, and consultants interested in issues of identity, interpersonal communication (communication apprehension, competence, satisfaction, and social presence), and group/team communication (collaboration, critical thinking, decision making) in virtual worlds such as Second Life^®.