Posted by andrearookie on November 22, 2008
Well, too many things on my mind … 
Trying to do the homework, I know, I know, I’m late, yes, it’s past the deadline, blame on me, and only me … 
On my previous post I forgot to mention many things, for example technical issues. At first it was a bit frustrating due to the technical requirements. I could only work on my laptop, and not on my PC due to a graphic card problem. 
Then, it was quite difficult to configure the audio setting, I don’t know why it kept changing all the time.
Then, lagging was an issue too, but I learned to be more patient … 
If you had a look at the avatar I chose, and you compared it to the one I have now, you could say I have been working on it a lot. Well, the change was not because I didn’t like the first one, but becuase I felt it wasn’t me. We looked so different … 
Anyway, I guess I will keep on changing it, and that’s the nice part of it, you can’t really change much of your appearance in RL, can you? lol 
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As regards Orientation Island, as I mentioned in my previous post, it was a great place for me. I met people from different parts of the world and we helped one another. Besides, there were signs everywhere so I didn’t feel l was lost in virtual space. I communicated with other avatars by means of text chat, but nobody knew hot to voice chat. That was a bit disappointing, but I believed I would soon learn how to. I guess that, because I knew how to text chat (Messenger) and how to surf the Net, I felt confident enough to start my journey in this virtual world.
OK, that’s it. I’m done. Better late than never, ok? Comments welcome.
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December 6th, 2008 at 2:53 am
Hi Andrea,
I totally understand with being late. We are heading into the end of the semester here and I am finding myself overwhelmed. Trying to get everything graded and ready for the last class coming up this week. UGHH!!!
Two weeks ago, I took my class online to Second Life. It was their first time on Second Life. Some had fun; some were frustrated; all stumbled through it all. I really expected it to be easier than it was. Several did mention though that they did learn a lot and it was cool to have a guest speaker from Florida speak to my class.
I wish I would have had them read some of these posts first. Then they probably would not have felt so inadequate as they stumble around in their new avatars.