It is not unusual for frequent users of technology to create multiple personae for participation in various electronic meeting places. Many establish multiple email accounts, choosing self-descriptive or playful usernames rather than their real-life names. In the MOO, users may add aliases and appear as different personae within a single session, adopting different voices and actions and choosing different icons to represent them.

Some successful classroom uses of this flexibility that I have witnessed included discussions in which students or instructors selected identities as literary characters, authors, or philosophers or chose to play devil's advocate in order to foster debate.

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