Sarah Robbins

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Sarah 'Intellagirl" Robbins
Born 1975

Sarah "Intellagirl" Robbins (born 1975), also known as Intellagirl, is an American blogger, best known for blogging, speaking and educating in Second Life. She has been profiled in the New York Times, USA Today, Christian Science Monitor and numerous local media in central Indiana. She has recently nominated for Indiana’s largest and most recognized technology award, the Mira award [1]. Robins also presented at the 2007 MIT Beyond Broadcast conference. She is currently co-authoring Second Life for Dummies with Ryan Hupfer.

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[edit] Biography

Robbins grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana. According to her website [1], Robbins received an MA in Literature from University of Indianapolis in 2003. Following that, she entered Ball State University and is currently ABD for her PhD in Rhetoric and Composition. She is the mother of triplets.

Robbins resides in Muncie, Indiana.

[edit] ENG 104 In Second Life

Robbins' innovative Second Life core-curriculum composition class has garnered international and national media attention. The class meets twice a week, once in Second Life and once in a classroom. When the course was first announced in the spring of 2006 Robbins received "300 responses for 18 spots"[2] The class has several unique teaching methods. Robins describes a gender-changing lesson as, "The women in class all put on sort of dorky, unathletic clothing and became sort of intellectual-looking men. Men in the class all put on bikinis and had big guns.” [3] Robbins philosphy for the class is to "break out of real-world learning."[4] Robins also says she is “very interested in how virtual environments can foster collaboration and community building in the class itself.”[5] Michael Holmes, associate director of insight and communications research professor at BSU has described the class as "another example of innovative use of technology in support of BSU's education mission." [6] The class is centered on Middletown Island, which is "an island that includes a student lounge, a tiki bar, and dorms."[7]

[edit] Blogs

Robbins blog on Second Life Research has garnered attention through out the Second Life Education community.

She also is a contributor to the Digital-ethos blog.

[edit] Publications

  • 2007: “Using a Multi-User Virtual Environment (MUVE) for Education: One Instructors Adventure in Second Life.” Published in the eLearning Guild whitepaper on Immersive environments.
  • 2006: “Image Slippage: Navigating the Dichotomies of an Academic Identity in a Non-Academic Virtual World.” Proceedings of the Second Life Education Workshop

[edit] In Process

  • Second Life for Dummies with Ryan Hupfer to be published in Fall of 2007.
  • Play and Pedagogy: Video Games and Writing Instruction article entitled "'CVE, MUVE, MMOE, MMORPG: What's the difference?': Virtual Environments as Compositional Models" Editors Douglas Eyman, Andrea Diane Davis and Stewart Neal Whittemore. To be published November 2007.

[edit] Services and Awards

  • Practical Criticism Midwest 2006 Best Paper Award
  • Business Fellows 2005-2006: "Profiting for Nonprofits through Grantsmanship"
  • Nominated for 2007 MIRA Award

[edit] Conference Presentations

  • 2007 MIT Beyond Broadcast conference: "Introduction to Second Life Pedagogy"
  • 2007 CCCC: “Please don’t come to class naked: Understanding the Value of Role Shifts in Second Life Education.”
  • 2006 NCTE National Convention: “Completely Multi-Literate: Teachers as Techno-Learners in the new Millennium.”
  • 2006 Conference on Writing, Teaching, and Technology.: "Teachers as Travel Guides: The Journey to Technoliteracy" Presented with Heidi Skurat Harris.
  • 2006 Practical Criticism Midwest:“From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs”: Faith-Based Collaboration in the Collective - Winner of Best Paper Award
  • 2006 Conference on Information Literacy: "Tagging the Collective: Motivation Analysis and Tagging in Information Literacy"
  • 2004 Practical Criticism Midwest: "Windows on Writing: Describing the Remediation of the 'Print Setting' in Electronic Writing"
  • 2004 MMLA Fall: “‘We Thought, Because We Had Power, We Had Wisdom’: Decentralizing the Power in the Freshman Composition Classroom” Presented with Shane Sullivan
  • 2004 Watson Writing Center Conference: "Computers Everywhere—Yes, But in the Writing Center, Too?" Presented with Leo Huisman and Amber Buck
  • 2004 NCTE Conference: "From If to Ought: "Computers, Composing, and the Transformation of Writing Centers" Presented with Leo Huisman and Amber Buck

[edit] Media

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ "Mira Award Nominees"
  2. ^ "300 responses for 18 spots", New York Times, The Ultimate Distance Learning article, Slide 1 of Slideshow. URL retrieved on March 10, 2007.
  3. ^ "The women in class all put on sort of dorky...", New York Times, The Ultimate Distance Learning article, Slide 2 of Slideshow. URL retrieved on March 10, 2007.
  4. ^ "break out of real-world learning.", New York Times, The Ultimate Distance Learning article, Slide 2 of Slideshow. URL retrieved on March 10, 2007.
  5. ^ "very interested in how virtual environments can...", Boston Phoenix, Right-click To Learn article, Page 2. URL retrieved on March 10, 2007.
  6. ^ "another example of innovative use of...", Muncie Star Press, BSU class meets in another (virtual) world article. URL retrieved on March 10, 2007.
  7. ^ "an island that includes a student lounge, a tiki bar, and...", Chronicle Of Higher Learning, Second Life Keeps Chugging Along article. URL retrieved on March 10, 2007.

[edit] References

Persondata
NAME Sarah Robbins
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Intellgirl
SHORT DESCRIPTION academic
DATE OF BIRTH 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Indianapolis, IN, USA
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH
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