Treasure Huntin’ in Second Life
Posted by HeyWayne | Filed under Learning, Technology, Virtual Spaces
One of the other activities that we have been undertaking has involved the idea of going on a treasure hunt in the Second Life environment. So far, Fiona Littleton has devised two such hunts and has given the players just a brief clue to get them on their way. These being: High above the chapel [...]
Tags: IDGBL2009, intellectual, little grey cells, second life, treasure hunt
Dragons’ Lair RPG – A Team 2 Production
Posted by HeyWayne | Filed under Learning, Virtual Spaces
Week 5 of the course saw the teams being given an exercise that involved building a game around the Second Life platform. Team 2 member, Nicholas Palmer, once again, got the ball rolling by providing a useful mind map of the task at hand. The game was based around the well-worn concept of role playing [...]
Tags: dragons' den, IDGBL2009, role playing game, rpg, second life
The Curious Case of Voice Identity
Posted by HeyWayne | Filed under Technology, Virtual Spaces
I had deliberately left it quite late in the evening last night before venturing into Second Life (SL) as I wanted some time on my own to refamiliarise myself with the SL environment, the user interface and to ensure I had the latest update from from SL as I knew that there would be a [...]
Tags: avatar, identity, IDGBL2009, second life, virtual worlds, voice
Return to the Rabbit Hole
Posted by HeyWayne | Filed under Society, Virtual Spaces
The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself falling down what seemed to be a very deep well. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, L. Carroll (1865) I am still feeling quite [...]
Tags: discrimination, IDELautumn07, inclusion, metaverse, rabbit hole, second life, stereotypes, virtual worlds
Second Life, The Metaverse and just about everything else…
Posted by HeyWayne | Filed under Society, Virtual Spaces
Five years from now a social networking site without a 3D universe will look like a dinosaur. Mark Kern, President of Red 5 Studios. March 2007 I went along to the Tuesday evening induction session for Second Life that was conducted by Fiona and Sian. This was followed up by a session on how to [...]
Tags: IDELautumn07, metaverse, second life, virtual worlds
Inside the Rabbit Hole
Posted by HeyWayne | Filed under Virtual Spaces
I started using Second Life (SL) about 8 months when I first saw Gilly Salmon demonstrate it (via a series of PowerPoint slides in her keynote speech) to a bemused audience at the Learning Futures Conference 2007 which was held at the University of Leicester. Gilly was offering it up as a possible virtual learning [...]
Tags: addiction, avatar, IDELautumn07, identity, second life, virtual world
