Second Life with Sydney Institute LearnScopers

Posted on August 31, 2007 
Filed Under learnscope07, secondlife, tafe, virtualworlds

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I had a great day yesterday - exploring Second Life with the team from the Sydney Insititute of TAFE LearnScope project. They are focusing on the possibilities for teaching and learning in Second Life, and today was our first opportunity to get together inworld and explore.

We had two sessions today. The first group experience a few technical difficulties, but using some alt avs I had prepared earlier and Steph’s 3G card we managed to get everyone inworld. We explored a number of spaces including Svarga, NOAA and the Second Life Library. We also enjoyed some freebie shopping… who knew you could pick up such cool stilettos for free! ;)

In the second session, we had a few less technical headaches, and a smaller group so things ran more smoothly. During this session we managed to get to Ars Virtua, Spaceport Alpha and our Virtual Hairdressing Salon which has recently moved to jokaydia.

A special thanks to the always super supportive Corwin Carillon aka Nick Noakes, who gave the second group an impromptu tour of his fabulous holodeck tools at Boracay. I always appreciate Corwin’s support, feedback and positive energy and he was wonderful with the group. They were really impresed! ;) A special thanks also to Steph and Paula who fab and supported the participants in figuring out their first steps in SL.

At any rate, I hope the sessions today provided the participants with lots of virtual food for thought, and I”m looking forward to hearing their ideas now that they’ve had a little taste of what Second Life is really like!

Now… for some real life sleep! ;)

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