Okapi Island and Education
Okapi Island and Education
Second Life DeCal Courses (instructor:Nieman Razavian, sponsor: Ruth Tringham)
http://www.decal.org/784 (Fall 2008)
http://www.decal.org/930 (Spring 2009)
Anthropology 39B (Freshman/Sophomore seminar)(instructor: Ruth Tringham): Serious Games for Archaeology and Imagining the Past (Fall 2009)
http://anthropology.berkeley.edu/programs/courses/course_details.php?id=313
Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program:
Sharing a Sense of Place: Constructing a Neolithic Village in Second Life (ongoing since Fall 2007). Supervisors: Colleen Morgan and Ruth Tringham
Go here to sign up to be an apprentice for Spring 2010:
http://research.berkeley.edu/urap/projects/detail.lasso?-Search=Action&-Table=pub_details&-Database=urap_web&-KeyValue=508
Okapi Island and Education
Remixing Çatalhöyük Day at Okapi Island. Nov 2007
January 2008
Okapi Island Image Gallery
Publications and Interviews about Okapi Island
Recent News at Okapi Island
•New buildings created
•Freshman Seminar creates Machinimas
Other links
•Middle Savagery (Colleen Morgan) blog
•Keep in touch by the Okapi Island Blog
Undergraduate and graduate students work alongside faculty and post-docs to create Okapi Island. Some of them, have worked in the field at the real Çatalhöyük. Many have never been to Turkey. Practice in building and enacting on Okapi Island is incorporated into formal courses about the archeology of Turkey and the sharing of knowledge about the past with the broader public. In this movie (from Spring 2008) some of the students introduce themselves.