Local candidate attacked by Republican Chair
Reported By: Megan Brilley/WCIA-3 News
Wednesday, June 19, 2013 @10:08 PM
URBANA -- A local GOP candidate was called a "street walker", "love
child" and "Miss Queen", and a Central Illinois Republican Party
Chairman may be...
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Library board hears from concerned residents
Reported By: Megan Brilley/WCIA-3 News
Wednesday, June 19, 2013 @ 9:36 PM
URBANA -- Nearly 100 people lined up to speak in front of the Library
Board on Wednesday night.
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Weather Now: The warm-up starts overnight
Reported By: Derick Fabert/WCIA-3 News
Wednesday, June 19, 2013 @ 6:21 PM
The forecast for the next few hours.
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State bridges better than national average
Reported By: Melanie Kaminski/WCIA-3 News
Wednesday, June 19, 2013 @ 5:57 PM
NATIONAL -- One in twelve bridges in the state needs to be repaired or replaced.
Read More»Reported By: Melanie Kaminski/WCIA-3 News
Wednesday, June 19, 2013 @ 5:51 PM
URBANA -- Board members of the Urbana Free Library will hold a special meeting Wednesday night.
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People are creating new identities in the virtual world "Second Life." University of Illinois professor Sharon Tettegah is one of them. In real life, she is a single woman, but online, she's a different version of herself. She's Amma, a married professor, and she's making real money by selling virtual real estate. Tettegah also uses this online world to teach her class at the U of I. She bought an island online with real grant money, and the students used it to create their own education systems. Graduate student Kona Taylor says, "If there's chemistry experiments to where you either can't afford the chemicals or worried students may hurt themselves, you can create those kinds of environments in Second Life to where they could play around with it an wouldn't get hurt" Students also came up with their own curriculum in this online world and even watched a parent-teacher conference happen. 