Here are two good videos to introduce you to Second Life.
This one shows Second Life possibilities to education.
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You think a techie and a web-savvy person would know? Not Mr. H, who spends most of his awake time in front of a computer - websurfing and logging to techie forums here and there. He asked me, "Second life? As in, your life after this one? But it can be your third life... and what if you reincarnate as a bird?!"
Mr. H, in Second Life, we can chose to be anything we want to be. You see, SL is a web-based 3D virtual world. Much like an online role-playing game, but more. In Second Life:
- You have an online identity or avatar, its look limited only by your creativity or fantasy. My avatar is a pony-tailed, sexy girl in denim pants, body-hugging shirt and comfy sandals - my look when I was in college years ago. Beep... Ok, drop the sexy. :-) I am not stuck with this look though. In SL you can change your look anytime. I can transform my avatar to a more voluptuous virtual-me in a daring outfit, or a prim and proper barbie-like princess.
- You can socialize with other SL residents in cafes, bars, go dancing at clubs, or be by your lone self and visit a zoo, a planetarium, a botanical garden, a beach. Tour a replica of Moscow's Red Square, Beijing's Forbidden City, or France's Chateau de Versailles. Take pics for souvenir!
- You can go shopping, watch concerts, sport events. Get into sports that you'll never be able to, in real life. Don't need to worry about falling off board when you windsurf at SL.
- You can run a business - a REAL business. SL residents trade in Linden dollars L$ with L$263=US$1. But you can get by in SL without money. Like I do.
- You can attend meetings, trainings, virtual classes about SL and real life topics. For example, you can learn basic German, conversational English or software skills such as digital photo editing.
In SL, you can do almost anything, be anybody and be anywhere you like. So you see Mr. H, Second Life is not the Next Life!
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Virtual-me attended the 911 Memorial at Second Life NYC World Trade Memorial Center, yesterday, Sept. 11. Citizens of Second Life (SL), an online 3D virtual world, gathered to listen to the names of the almost 3,000 victims of the 9.11.01 tragedy. Virtual-me is sitting on the grass, corner lower right in the snapshot above.- 9.11 Never Forget Memorial
- Weeping Angel Fountain
- replica of the FDNY Memorial Wall
- memorial firetrucks
- memorial photos in the huge changing billboard
On 9.11.08 Melody Regent and the staff of Regent Estates invite you to join us for 9.11 Never Forget - A Memorial in Second Life.The names of all of the almost 3000 people who perished in the terrorist attacks of 9.11.01 will be read by residents from SL Fashion, Music, Art, Builders, TV, Bloggers, Podcasters and others. A replica of the FDNY Memorial on the wall of "Ten House" will be dedicated.
Schedule of events:5:15am SLT - Gather at the World Trade Center Memorial, ceremony begins5:46am SLT (8:46am Eastern) - Reading of the names of all 2974 victims of the terrorist attacks commences.
8:50am SLT - Long moment of silence after the last name is read.
9am SLT - Dedication of new FDNY Memorial Wall.3pm SLT - A special dance of remembrance and renewal with DJ Jonas Lunasea. Formal attire requested.
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It was not like any I have attended. I learned how to make a bedroom mirror-dresser in a class conducted in a park! An entirely new experience, really. Not because furniture-making is non-techie in my list, nor because a park is an unlikely venue for a carpentry class. What's unique about it is, everything was virtual! My virtual self, together with my virtual classmates, learned how to make our own virtual mirror-dressers ...in a virtual park ...in a virtual world called Second Life. (With 5 virtuals in a sentence, who's gonna miss my point ?)
In the above Second Life (SL) snapshot, my second-self is the avatar seated along the middle row, 2nd from left. As you can see, virtual-me was having newbie issues. I had not made my mirror yet, and my dresser looked like something you can put a dead body in.
The class was an SL educational event at Technical User Interfacing (TUi), an educational SL region that regularly conducts classes on how to make virtual objects such as tables, lamps, magic poles and pickle bucket toilets ...whatever those are.
The class teacher was seated on my right. She "talked" with us via the Local Chat window which allowed newbies like me to catch up by scrolling back to previous instructions. The Local Chat was like a YM (Yahoo Messenger) group chat where I can "hear" classmates talking with the teacher, and among each other. And then there is the IM (Instant Messenger) window/tab where I received a private message from one of my virtual classmates inviting me to join her study group.
There is a real person in every SL avatar in the class. Each with his own reason for attending the class - curiosity, to make virtual friends and to learn new things. (Like making virtual mirror-dressers, perhaps?!) One classmate declared (via the Local Chat) that she had long been wanting to have her own mirror-dresser and that she would be bringing with her the finished project. Hmm, good idea... So here's a snapshot of the sexy virtual-me with my first "hand-made" virtual object. How cool is that?! Want to make virtual objects in SL with me?
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