Thursday, February 08, 2007 6:03:34 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

I just spent the last hour on Second Life with Karsten, Shirley and a host of other academics from around the globe.

It was an interesting experience, assessing Second Life as a tool for assisting with e-learning - or at least I think that was the aim of the experiment.

The goal was to team people up and for each team to go hide a cube of a certain colour. I was teamed up with Beth Kanter and a guy called Juan/John.

I don't think any of us were experienced with Second Life and I was surprised at how fast everybody picked it up. Organising the teams to go and do things was difficult - but no more difficult than trying to organise a collaborative exercise online in any other fashion.

I dressed for the occasion in a somewhat different manner than everybody else, who seemed content looking like themselves/ordinary. I should be easy to spot in the photos, being that I'm big, multi-coloured and have eyes which are completely detached from the rest of me.

Waiting for everybody to arrive

Ooh, this looks like a good hiding spot

Probably a bit too obvious...

Ah, perhaps here is better

Aha, found Orange's box!