Second Life: Freya Ophelia

I’ve been rooting for SL from the start. I think learning and meeting virtually is the way of the future. But one thing the classroom has that SL doesn’t is dependability. The classroom is never down for maintenance. The classroom is never lagged. The classroom, as much as I hate it, is always there. Second life, on the other hand, seems to be riddled with problems. Before we can take meeting in a virtual environment for educational purposes seriously, we need to take a long hard look at technical difficulties.

My group and I also had difficulties getting our project together because of the stipulations SL puts on objects. We each made our separate parts, but when it came down to having one person pick them all up, the trouble began. In the end, I had made such a debacle of our project Tyler said “you just keep working on that” and he snuck off and started over. Maybe I just don’t understand the settings for sharing objects, or maybe SL really was making it difficult, but either way, the experience was frustrating.