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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
In the fourth class, I was unable to attend for long as my internet cut out. However, I did keep in touch with my group as to what our communication tool would be. After deliberating between WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, we decided that Messenger was a better app due to its availability on both laptop and phone. It has all the capabilities we...
In class this week, John let me take over as I was standing at the podium. He immediately regretted this decision when I started to build a wall of blocks around myself and his avatar. Sadly, DIT @ SecondLife is now a no-building zone. I can't think why. This week John told us to go out and look for people to talk to...
The second week of this module was spent getting to grips with the SecondLife environment. The first place I visited was Something Estates Shopping Centre, where I played a game called Gridberts which made absolutely no sense but I was given a Ray Gun which I was quite content with. I think the objective of the game was to shoot other avatars but...
My name is Poilination and this the blog I've created to log my thoughts and experiences on SecondLife. I'm excited to start getting into SecondLife over the course of this module. I hope to make new friends and learn more about this virtual environment and new learning techniques. I'm glad that, in this digital age, the 'classroom' concept is advancing along with our...
