Sharing the Addiction

There has been a real surge of interest in Second Life through Twitter recently. I have had an account for about a year now but only occasionally go in. I can see that there is a real potential in Second Life for education but I have not really found enough of interest to keep me going back in that regularly. Still, the other day I decided to hop on and ended up teleporting to an island on Second Life that is a Spanish speaking area. As I am learning Spanish, I thought I would head in there and see if I could try and talk to people in Spanish. I bumped into a nice guy called Angel (in real life - I can’t quite remember his SL name) who was based in Spain. We chatted for a while and he was very patient with my exceptionally broken Spanish! It wasn’t until the end of the conversation that we realised that we were both ICT advisors and were able to share ideas around that topic. I took a snap shot of us having a talk. For anyone trying to learn another language, I think Second Life has HUGE potential. I certainly found it very motivating

Tags: languages, second life

Second Life Has Finally Caught Up With Me

I knew that it was dangerous to download Second Life (which is free) as I could tell that I had the capacity to become very addicted. After spending eight straight hours on it today, that fear has been realised! The reason the picture is so dark is that it was nighttime at the Bloggers Cafe. This cafe is a place where educational bloggers from around the world meet to talk. I dropped into a conversation earlier today about Harry Potter!

Uploaded with Skitch!

I have also been playing with an excellent tool called Skitch which is from Plasq (the same people who brought us Comic Life which you can now download from their site for Windows!!). The arrows and comments on the first picture I made using the Skitch tools.

Uploaded with Skitch!

You have to get an invite to try out this tool (thanks Allanah for letting John know!) but hopefully it will soon be available to a wider audience). It is extremely versatile.