Last Thursday I attempted to log into my Second Life account during my Show and Tell session and was unable to connect. I assumed it was because I was a few versions behind, and so I completed the update and tried again, without success. I thought maybe I was using the wrong password, so I [...]
I’ve been in Second Life a few times this week and run into people I spent time with in 1st life lately. In these instances, they’ve told me SL doesn’t begin to compare with real life interaction. So now I’m curious as to why it was an acceptable surrogate before, but now seems unsatisfying. Here [...]
I think this social networking thing we have going on is more about brain chemistry and less about technology. We are making social connections, but I feel we are also making new internal brain connections, stimulating endocrine production and by nature, changing our personalities. The visual and audio cues we feed off create [...]
When I began researching virtual worlds a year ago, I had difficulty finding the value for educators. In all my research, the best examples I could find, were those involving social activities and communications studies, such as Sarah Robbins’ rhetoric classes. While there were stellar examples of scientific simulations, I couldn’t see the [...]