Second Life

Second Life is a good technology for students to learn how to make characters meet others on line. It allows students to interact in a “safe” computer setting, rather than taking chances with their lives. Second life gives people the chance to take risks and to not be boring. In real time / life situations we may be afraid to say something because of other people’s reactions to what we say. In second life, we can make a group of students because of the flexibility of joining people together. I have just begun to use “second life” this semester and found it to be an interesting tool to use to teach my students. I enjoy the second life as a way of transporting myself into a “cartoon like” scenario; it’s real, but not really real. It does not affect my first life in the sense that it is “make believe/ not real.” This second life allows students to take on line classes. I like it because I can present my presentation in second life, I do not get “nervous” in front of people in second life, as I do in “real life” situations.