Second Life Adventure

First visit to a new land in Second life

Second Life is the new destination for this traveler. The move from Jokaydia was not too terrible as there were familiar controls. It seems  a lot of learning from travels to Marlboro Island were transferable. What was new is that there were a lot more visitors to interact with. I surprised that I found myself being a but shy as I did not really want to start up conversations with others. Actually I was more concerned about too much time being spent hanging out. It is unfortunate but reality for me is I simply don't have much time to socialize and have to focus on lessons and assignments. What immediately did get my interest was how there were groups socializing. Then is became a bit strange and it seemed like people were partnering up like at a night club. In this case there were Spanish speakers  - Hola, que tal. I thought wow what I great way to work on my Spanish then realized it was more like these two were in dating mode. I then thought maybe I can meet some Serbo Croat speakers another time but for now I need to focus on assignments.

A view from above

Exploring a new Island 

As part of a choice assignment I visited a Virtual World developed by NTID the National Technical Institute for Deaf which is part of the Rochester Institute of Technology. As I was a student at RIT and later had done some work on the campus located in my home town I was looking forward to meeting other travelers.

I also thought what a great opportunity to interact with deaf as we could chat via text. It was a challenge to learn how to communicate using sign language. Today we could easily text to have conversations and share information. Unfortunately this virtual world created to share learning on the subject of Physics was no longer supported since 2011.

Example projects of physics

The familiar brick paths from the real world campus with a message regarding status. Sadly I did not find any visitors and took a visit to the facebook page that only had a few likes.