Just attended my first group supervision session in Second Life, a very strange session which left me wanting to get to grips with the virtual world a little bit more.
Not sure I’m a big fan yet, but I can see the possibilities of doing lectures for distance courses in Second Life – there’s a video to come of the University of Portsmouth’s island and one of the lecture theatres that has been built there.
One of the oddest things was that I’m on a course with people I’ve never actually met – although we have seen each other through vid chat – so the idea of their avatars didn’t seem overly weird.
Their names were odd and one of our group was a blue monster (he of the long blue dangly tail in the pic) – he is a school teacher and let his students design the avatar themselves, a very brave thing to do and quite cool too. I developed avatar envy, that’s my back you can see in the image.
It felt, at first, like a very posh IM session – but we soon got over that. Not sure I want to spend the time required to really get to grips with the environment, but we are going back for more.
Partiularly interesing is one of my group is going to be doing a build project for her assignment – something I’m really looking forward to seeing.
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