By Mary Ann Thomas, VALLEY NEWS DISPATCH
Authorities sprayed protesters with high pressure water hoses, and tried to corral them with police dogs. The images were frightening. Those scenes and others from the mid-1960s civil rights movement stun viewers again — this time in the Second Life virtual-reality game, which immerses Indiana University of Pennsylvania students in that movement. Allen Partridge, a professor in the school’s Communications Media department and his doctoral students developed the project in his Simulation of Games doctoral class. Not just an excursion into computer geek territory, Second Life is a computer-based tool that takes students into a virtual world where history comes alive. As avatars (computer-generated characters), students walk through and with the 1965 Voting Rights March from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., and other pivotal moments.
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