Today I walked to the music building for class.  However, when I got there I was told that class was cancelled.  I still went on to sign on to Second Life anyways, since I’m sure we were still supposed to get on.  However, the Second Life program would not let me sign on nor would it let anyone else in the class.  I waited for a while for it to load, but nothing happened.  This same thing happened to me the last class.  It took about 25 minutes just for the program to start up.  Perhaps Second Life is experiencing some technical difficulties that it needs to work on.  With these continuous problems it is going to be hard for our group to finish the project.  We have done a lot so far, but some finishing still needs to be completed.  Chapter 9 is the last chapter in the Second Life book to be read, and blogged about.  I am very happy about that although I have found that many of the chapters in the Second Life book were not that bad to read.

I posted this at the beginning of the school year but decided to move it to the class discussion section on my blog because I felt it fit better there.

September 19, 2008

For our group project, my group was assigned semiotics.  Semitoics are images, signs, texts, etc…  Mostly just focusing on the visual aspects of what we saw through secondlife and analyzing them.  I spent the whole class period exploring different parts of secondlife and snapping photos.  I chose to go in depth in analyzing three seperate photos.

Today in class it was really interesting because no one actually met face to face, but instead our class met virtually on secondlife.  To be perfectly honest, our class doesn’t necesssarily have to meet in person ever, as long as everyone has access to a computer that can access secondlife and is going on at the same time, all of our class periods can be conducted through secondlife.  I think that is really cool especially since you can actually use an avatar to approach different classmates and communicate with them right there.

Today in class we talked about virtual reality and what makes the place we live in an actual place.  Such terms as atmosphere and the ability to touch and see things are what makes our location real.