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!
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