Joe Sanchez

Joe Sanchez, M.S. is completing his doctoral work in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin with research focusing on Shared Virtual Environments (SVE), Learning 2.0, Social Informatics, and instructional technology. He has presented research about the use and deveolpment of instructional technology at Educause, Ed-Media, SITE, Syllabus, TXDLA, and IOL. His recent work includes a qualitative assessment of the Second Life user experience for a World Literature course at the University of Texas at Austin.


Recent work includes:


Creating Transitional Spaces in Virtual Places: Learning in Second Life. Association of Internet Researchers 8. Vancouver, Canada. October 2007



Using Second Life in an English course: Designing class activities to address learning objectives. World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications. Vancouver, Canada. June 2007

A Sociotechnical analysis of Second Life in an undergraduate English course. World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications. Vancouver, Canada. June 2007



Sanchez, J. (March 2007) Second Life: an Interactive Qualitative Analysis. Proceedings Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education, San Antonio, Texas.