Poilination's SecondLife Experience

Sadly, the Virtual Environments module ended today with our final presentations. We created a video for our presentation which seemed to go well. I enjoyed this whole module and the new concept of learning in an online classroom, and I only wish I could do it again. Thanks for everything John. Poilin ...

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This week we all got very distracted and John taught us how to build things and I made a giant burrito that I got stuck in then I turned it into a portal and basically that's what happened in class this week. Here are some snaps. I made John promise not to remove it but I feel like he will and that's the...

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This week my group has started to buck up a little in terms of finding specific angles and choosing how to structure our presentation. At the minute we are considering using video, but John mentioned that video in SL can be unpredictable at times, so we would have to use YouTube. I'm not going to lie, I'm a little uncomfortable with the prospect...

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I'm finding it difficult to find any information on my group online due to the vast amount of Google articles on people with similar names. I can find Joe's website, but that's the only thing I can find, and I already knew the URL. Dan proved even more difficult to research, which I had already anticipated.  We've been using Facebook to keep in...

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This week's task was to start getting to grips with the project brief. I suggested to my group after class one day that we should start to build a profile on each other based on our findings online. However, I believe that this may be a flawed approach, even though it seems to be what other groups have started to do.  I believe...

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This week we were given a tour of Virtual Ability Island by Gentle Heron. It was eye opening and encouraging to see that people with IRL disabilities could utilise SecondLife to craft a fully immersive and gratifying experience for themselves. Cape Serenity was my favourite part of the outing. I loved reading the poetry and enjoying the gardens with the animals. Of course...

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This week we went to Lauk's Nest, one of the oldest parks in SecondLife, built in 2004. Symeon Siamendes gave us a tour and answered any questions we had about the reserve. After the class had ended we explored Lauk's nest ourselves and I found a giant tortoise walking about outside someones house, so obviously I sat on it and went for a...

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