Mick Brady, Professor Emeritus, Russell Sage College.

Mick is currently Live Teams Manager at the Serious Game Design Institute at the Santa Barbara City College; Second Life photographer, blogger, writer and digital artist. ... http://mikimojo.com

Mick writes of himself: “I entered a virtual world for the very first time last fall as part of a team whose mission was to launch the Serious Game Design Institute at the Santa Barbara City College island campus in Second Life. Up until that moment, I had never even heard of virtual worlds (unless you include reading Snow Crash when it came out). I think I was brought in because of my eclectic background: artist/designer/photographer/writer/professor, etc.

I've recently begun working with a code warrior/partner, though, in an attempt to devise a new way of building avatars that would enable them be brought in and out of Second Life, with the long range goal of making them compatible with other virtual worlds. We've come up with some interesting results, but we're still at the very beginning, and I'm not at all certain of where we will end up.”