What's New in My Second Life Adventure

I haven't had much time to spend at either my rental on Eduisland II or at my place on Montbard. I've been so busy taking classes in the SL environment, learning the fundamentals of prims, scripting, animation, photography, as well as creating prim clothes, hair and shoes. I cannot believe all of the incredible classes that are offered here in SL.

I've also joined a number of education-related groups in Second Life:

• Best Practices for Education


• SLolar Central


• NMC Guest


• ISTE: Education Technology Association


• Academy of Second Learning


• ELVEN Institute


• K-12 Educators


• Library Services for Teens


• Lighthouse Learning Island


• Real Life Education in Second Life


• Rockcliffe University


• Eduisland II


• Discovery Education Network

Being involved in these many groups tends to keep me busy. For instance, I attend meetings at the ELVEN Institute on how to include SL into the K-12 teaching environment. This is still my main focus for using Second Life; how to have my students be able to use the SL virtual world as a teaching and learning tool.

I am also continuing to try to have access to the SL Teen grid. I have been pursuing this avenue through The Eye4You Alliance group which is a program that offers library services within the space of Teen Second Life. So far I have passed the background check and created an alternate avator to take over to the Teen grid.

Hoping to soon be able to explore the possibilities of this Teen grid for my students to use in the future.

But not all the time spent here in Second Life has been work. My neighbour in Montbard had a fire-works display for the 4th of July. Here is a photo of us watching the display: Andromeda, Victoria and I.