My first meeting in SL

Only few days after my arrival I had my first meeting in SL about how to use and create holodecks in a virtual environment.

This was an absolutely amazing experience. I joined the session at 10 pm, kind of stressed on how it would be and if I would possibly be able to follow and interact with other people.

Then I saw all the people arriving for the session and funny enough you already feel like being part of community. And that is truly interesting, because giving the participants this feeling of "belonging" will help foster the learning process.

The time of the meeting almost flew and I can tell that sometimes even in a f2f context 2 hours might be a real long time....

Now talking about the content of the session I am actually still impressed about what I saw, with a fingertip you change the context, layout of your environment, you move from the Southpole to a Japanese Tea house in less than second. How could you possibly do that in a real environment.

I think in the future this will open many opportunities for creating learning environments that are perfectly adapted to the target audience and the content.

For me this was a great start and a truly inspiring experience and I am looking forward to more...

My first experience with Second Life

Phia Josephina or what' s the purpose of getting a SecondLife

When you start creating your "second" identity you already feel that there will be a connection between the real life and your potential second life. But what will it be and how come?
Why do you choose a certain first name? Why are you not happy with the list of last names they provide? I would prefer having the choice!
I kind of like "Phia" but for the surname the choice is limited...
Hmm, this won't stop me and even so I would have preferred a different surname I am kind of happy with "Josephina", at least it sounds good.
Once entered into SL there are more decisions to be taken.
How do I want to look like? Close to reality? Or somebody radically different?
Well, let's start with some "look-alike" avatat and then will see in the future if this is still suitable.
Once you start modifying your avatar you realize that this all about perceptions How do we see ourselves. Do we prefer to somehow "arrange" reality or we really close to the image we have ourselves.
Besides these fundamental issues I also got confronted to some more "down-to-earth" issues.
Oh my god, what did I do? My hair is gone? Oh no, these pants are too short!!
You see it seems that real life is not complicated enough, you create yourselves more problems in SL. And then you see all these people falling from the sky, some of them have exactly the same dress than you!! Can you believe that? She is wearing my skirt!!
No kidding, this first experience was really fun and I could hardly stop hanging around and exploring this new dimension.