What a wonderful world

This morning I got an inspiration of searching the most beautiful sims (digital areas) in the Second Life virtual world. Unfortunately my computer's memory and graphic card was not able to work properly so that I could make some splendid photo shots over the sites. Luckily I found a short video clip from YouTube (see above) which will do the trip. Isn't the world wonderful!

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Making the Inventory

This morning I decided to rearrange my Inventory because it would otherwise be soon a huge mess. There was already a lot of stuff such as free clothes, shoes, hairs, skins, objects etc. Together there were over 3200 objects before rearranging in the inventory, afterwards slightly below 3000.

I made a new folder structure inside the main folders and created sub folders with short but descriptive titles so that it is more logical and easier to find objects. I also deleted those that I would probably never need and that could be easy to get again if needed.

I found some really beautiful clothes and other stuff that could fit really fine on me (I am quite slim, lol), so I started to make some new outfits including clothes, shoes, jewelries, haircut, makeup and so on. I must say I succeeded to create a very wonderful summer collection. Maybe some day I could invite some friends to my very own private fashion show (lol).

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Tutoring my colleague

One particularly nice person, Midsummer Moomington, a librarian of our Adult Education Centre was in troubles last Thursday in the EduFinland island. She needed some help in her very first steps in the virtual world of SL. First there was a problem of getting inside the open learning center house in the island: the door just did not open at all in first attempts. We noticed finally that it needs to be opened by touching the window - not the wooden parts of the door.

After a lots of efforts trying in (lol) I suggested that she might want to sit down in the bubble chair. It was not so easy either cause it usually needs to click on the right mouse button, not left.

Then nothing happened: no actions taken on her avatar. I asked if everything was alright or not. She just got a customer in first life so she could not concentrate on the second life. So after she finished with the customer we continued our tour inside the house. We found a very nice blue laptop in the table. She got a copy but could not find it from the inventory. Instead of the laptop she found a mug of chocolate which she took in her hand with my help. I also gave her an animated cup of coffee, which was nice looking.

After some cups of coffee we learnt how to zoom and pan in t the SL. That was all for almost one hour. The skills will be improving gradually.

Meeting in the University of Helsinki in SL

I was making a task list for the group meeting of the Adult Education Center's "Social Media -project" persons. The meeting was to be held Wednesday the 18th of June 2008. I were taking a deep look in the EduFinland island and suddenly saw there was an announcement for a meeting of the ICT designers of the University of Helsinki in SL which was just about to start. In despite of I do not belong to the staff of the University I decided to stay in the island for a while to see how the meeting would go.

Gradually about 20 avatars teleported themselves into the EduFinland island and the meeting started. First we were just gathering the avatars into the small auditorium and introduced ourselves. Afterwards we were walking around to get known about the island, specially the University's area in it. Then we devided into two groups and were chatting about SL's possibilities in eLearning genre. Finally we reflected with each other what we had chatted in the groups.

The meeting took about one hour and 15 minutes and there were some good ideas. We also chatted about the problems of SL and compared it on the other communicating systems. Everyone agreed that there are many challenges if thinking about using SL as a learning tool. The immersivity of SL makes it both interesting but also addictive.

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