Visiting Another Orientation Island

Here Lu is interacting with fellow avatars on another Orientation Island. This was Lu's first experience with an animal looking avatar.

Lu enjoyed the scenery at this island. The trees and the rolling hills were absolutely beautiful!

Angela Becerra-Chvilicek

Hello,

Just for kicks Eva and I tried to go to the Manpower virtual world today, it works you can get on there. There is a lot of stuff to look at. You guys should try it. I tried to get on IBM, but it says we do not have access to it. Just wanted to let you guys know since we are writing our paper on it.

Angela Becerra-Chvilicek

Hi everyone,

Today Eva and I did a little exploring, I tried some orientation islands. By the way there are a ton of them! Other than that I am still just working on navigating around everywhere. Talk to you guys later.

Touring Second Life

Hi Everyone!

Today Lu and I did a little site seeing in Second Life. We visited a really neat island, Jade's Jazz Island. Jade's Jazz island had some really fun upbeat music and some really fun dances we could try out.

Here is a picture of Lu looking at the stage on Jade's Jazz island!

My Second Life

My Avatars name is - Erica Sassower

I picked "The Girl next door" for my main character, I changed her clothing style, height, a some facial characteristics so she could resemble myself more.

Second life also reminded me of The Sims game, both take a lot of time and useage to figure out how to use them. I had trouble walking my character, she kept running into walls.

My first impression of Second life was bad, because someone tried talking to me, and wrote me some very inappropriate things when I told them I just signed onto Second life for a school project. It made me not walk to talk to people anymore!

Stepen Sampson

My Avatar's name is Steve Kweller.  

I changed a few things about my appearance, I changed my hair color, hair length, eye color, nose and mouth.  I guess I wanted to make it look as much like myself as possible.  Since I have the characteristics I inputted, I thought it would look more like me.  

I did not have any major challenges with Second Life.  The only problem was when I was in the UWM world and was not able to click on the logo to review the rules.  I am on a Mac, I don't know if that makes a difference, but that was the only challenge that I ran into.  

My first impression of Second Life was that it reminded me of the SIMS.  I guess I still have a hard time comprehending the reason for living a different representation of oneself online.   Maybe I am reading to much into it.  I will curb my skepticism and pursue the fun aspects of it though!

Angela Becerra-Chvilicek

My avatar's name is Eva Kips.

I changed a lot of things about my appearance such as skin tone, eyes, body shape, clothes and shoes. I change these things because I thought it was fun.

Some of the challenges that I had with Second Life, was learning how to teleport back and forth to other locations.

My first impression of Second Life was that it was a little difficult, but fun at the same time.