Second Life blog

This week we were put into groups for an upcoming group project. I am in the red group. My group is a mixture of people in my course including close friends as well as people i have never met before so it will be interesting to see how the group dynamic develops. The odd thing is that the end product as in many things in college is not the be all and end all. your ability to communicate and critically think is a main contributing factor to your result at the end.

In week 2 we were tasked with making conversations with people in second life. This was quite daunting at first because you don't know who you are going to meet and i have never talked to anyone anonymous online before. You hear about horror stories online and see people getting cat fished, honesty cannot be ensured online but you have to give them the benefit of the doubt. The first person i talked to was in social island. I visited this place as it is under the category of chat hot spots. I got talking to Eexperiment. I started by saying hello. then they said hi bro [05:05] Eexperiment: u r so cool. i said thanks so are you and they said "haha". i asked them what they're doing. they said they're changing their clothes. then they said they were making materials for experiments. I said cool then I asked him for what experiment and he disappeared so I left. Then i traveled back to Moscow to see if anyone spoke English. i asked in the public chat if an...

I joined Second Life as part of an optional module in college. I didn't know what to expect at first, what the quality of the game would be and just how realistic it was. Turns out it is quite fun, its a full of fantasy and exploration. First thing i wanted to was costomize my character. I found a wolf that i found quite funny so picked it. I then went to class which was interesting as everyone got to terms with their characters. I then went exploring around the virtual world. first place i visited was the beach.  it was night time so there wasnt much going on. I then visited a night club which surprised me because it as so full of people dancing. it made me ask myself why would you dance i online world but i tried it and it was actually fun! I also visited the WillowVale which was really cool. it was like something out of lord of the rings. It is easy to get around when you can teleport. i also visited Moscow. It is amazing how this platform gives you the opportunity...