Saturday I had the opportunity to attend a Second Life workshop at TIES titled, "Get a Second Life!" For 6 hours, 8 other educators and myself explored the virtual world of Second Life , a multi-player 3-D Virtual world, and had the opportunity to look at resources that may have an application in the classroom. Second Life requires separate software downloaded on your computer, and a fairly robust computer to keep things running smoothly . Given the fact that iMax movies and other simulations make me nauseous , by the end of the day I was feeling a bit woozy!! Here's the avatar I created. I stopped by the ISTE Island and got the free t-shirt I'm wearing! Several organizations provide freebies when you visit their sites on the grid. I tried to make my avatar appear as close to the real thing as possible. Hard to get patchy grey hair to work very well, but pretty easy to lose a few pounds!! After getting an orientation on how to move talk, gesture, fly and teleport...
Ideas and Tips on Digital Age Learning from Michael Walker. These thoughts and ideas may not represent the views of my employer.