About a week ago I became a member of Second Life. I have heard about second life but I really never knew what it was all about. I first heard about it on an episode of “The Office” when one of the characters (Dwight Shrute) made himself in second life. Anyways, I named my virtual self Merv MacMoragh. I was confused on how to work second life at first and it seemed to lag a lot due to internet connection and what not, but eventually I was able to roam around and figure things on my own. I have been playing around with second and just going to different places. I teleported to some sort of island with a bunch of different house on it. There was a large mansion type house and some sort of Oriental looking home. I thought that was cool. I didn’t see anyone though. Later I teleported to a clothing store. It was more like a street with a bunch of clothing stores. I looked around and even saw a suit that i wanted but I couldn’t afford it. Even my second life character is broke like me! Furthermore I roamed around the street and ended up in a sewer where I saw two super hero looking people. There was a guy and a girl hanging out down there wearing capes. They seemed nice. This virtual world is interesting and I’m ready to explore it more.
6:55 am - 9-3-2008
good job on following rules for how to place your artefact assignment on your blog. Re you artefact assignment – good points. Can you now think/write about why you “want it”?
We will revisit some of what I am asking in everyone’s blogs in class on Friday as well – but do continue the thinking through here as well…