Learning to Fly

It was a nice change to actually be able to access the application having switched from my Mac to my PC. I was able to may things after a quick tour from a friend. What concerned me was how others and students could have the same problems. I quietly consider myself to be more than a newbie around computers but will be the first to admit I have a lot to learn.

Hopping from world to world was very cool and when we had our virtual meet up it was quite impressive to see everyone and a big surprise to see fancy dance moves, back flips and muscle poses. I had been to shop and enjoyed adding to my inventory especially the prices were unbeatable $0.00. Then the trip to Marlboro Island was very nice. It was disappointing that it did not res during our meetup.

I did work through the challenges and at this time need to go back and change the face of my portfolio as directed. I was able to upload an image from my computer but not able to add it a face. I think some of the techniques we are being asked to do may come more natural to a digital native than to this digital dinosaur.

I am happy to report I was able to access Marlboro Island and it did RES. You can see the snapshot here.

I was able to modify my appearance and having the ability to chat with voice was very nice as my typing can bit wonky.

I now have a bit of an inventory of stuff for a home and think that may be a good project to get some land.

I also liked looking at the lesson on the virtual boards for math class. I could see ways to integrate this into my web classes. I was also surprised to see how accessible the code was for scripts which made me think there are a lot of opportunities to learn and teach programming.

I think this week has made some very good progress in class. Yesterday we had a meeting at work with the management team for Games for Change http://www.gamesforchange.org/ along with graduate students and instructors from Lehigh University, Marlboro Graduate School, and colleagues from the United Nations to include an ambassador and we launched a project to build a game to teach about Sustainable Development Goals. Thing are moving along quite nicely and my virtual world new experiences are very helpful.

Oh let's not forget learning to fly - this is just plane fun to soar above and circle the lands like an eagle in the sky. For no reason it can be a joy to just fly around an explore and maybe find someone to interact with. This is a welcome break from the daily toils.