Works and Days 37/38Virtual Experiences of the Harlem Rennaissance:
The Virtual Harlem Project
Vol. 19, Nos. 1 & 2
2001
Ed.
James J. Sosnoski and Bryan Carter
Contents:
Tom Defanti: Prefatory Note
Dwight McBride: Preface
James J. Sosnoski and Bryan Carter: Introduction: “Virtual Experiences of the Harlem Renaissance”
The History of the Virtual Harlem Project
Bryan Carter: “Virtual Harlem in the Beginning: Retrospective Reflections”
Erec Smith: “A Conversation with Bryan Carter”
William Plummer: “Why Engineers Are Interested in Projects Like Virtual Harlem”
The Technologies Used in the Virtual Harlem Project
James Pyfer: “The Technologies Used in the Virtual Harlem Project”
Andy Johnson: “VR as Instructional Technology: The CAVE as Classroom”
Reactions to the Virtual Harlem Project
Jason Leigh, Andy Johnson, and Kyoung Park: “How Humanities Students Cop with the Technology of Virtual Harlem”
Richard Besel: “Are Humanists Technophobes, or Is This a Myth?”
James J. Sosnoski: “Will New Technologies Impair the Critical and Imaginative Capabilities of Students?: Virtual Harlem, an Experiment in Learning Environments”
Veronica Watson: “Virtual Harlem and Actual Teaching: Where Technology meets Pedagogy in the Education Experience”
Brenda Aghahowa: “The Digital Divide and Langston Hughes: Bridging the Gap through the Virtual Harlem Project”
Related Projects
Bruce Lincoln: “Harlem in Harlem: The Use of Virtual Harlem in Present-Day Harlem’s Community Technology Centers”
Marcelo Milrad: “The COLDEX Project and Virtual Harlem’s Collaborative Learning Network”
Art and Drama in Virtual Harlem
Tim Portlock: “An Artist Moves to Digital”
James J. Sosnoski and Tim Portlock: “A Design in Multiple Interactive Narratives in VR Scenarious”
Georgia Tappan: “'A Girl’s Life' in Virtual Harlem”
Janice Lively: “Writing a Narrative for Virtual Harlem: A Learning Experience”
Final Thoughts
Duriel Harris: “Virtual Rupture: An Experiment Upon an Experiment”
Ken McAllister: “’In On the Job’: Praxis, Critique, and the Evolution of Virtual Harlem”
Steve Jones: “Virtual Reality Technology and the Future of Education”
James J. Sosnoski and Bryan Carter: Afterwords
Appendices
Glossary
Bibliography
Contributors