{"id":117,"date":"2007-04-22T22:57:15","date_gmt":"2007-04-23T03:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/04\/22\/second-life-second-try\/"},"modified":"2007-05-09T08:11:13","modified_gmt":"2007-05-09T13:11:13","slug":"second-life-second-try","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/04\/22\/second-life-second-try\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Life Second Try"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=SecondLife src=\"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/2ndlife.png\" align=\"right\" \/>I have been toying with the idea of giving <a href=\"http:\/\/secondlife.com\">Second Life<\/a> another try.  Last summer I wasted a couple of days trying to find some educational use for SL.  For the most part, it was one big chat room.  You know what I think about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oT9XoJLDNjE\">chat in the classroom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, I have seen many articles concerning the use of SL as an educational tool.  Check out the SL site dedicated to <a href=\"http:\/\/secondlife.com\/education\">education<\/a>.  There was a SL presentation at eTech this year.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oln.org\/emerging_technologies\/\">OLN<\/a> and several educational institutions in Ohio have purchased real estate to be used for educational purposes.<\/p>\n<p>I created a new account today.  Of the six male avatars, I picked the one with glasses and a beard.  For some reason, I didn&#8217;t get the glasses but instead ended up with fairly large bosoms.  The clothes were &#8220;downloading&#8221; according to the on screen message.  I switched from the laptop to the more powerful desktop.  That seems to have corrected my anatomy problem.  I&#8217;m still waiting on the clothes.<\/p>\n<p>So far I have visited a couple of virtual campuses and ISTE.  Sunday must not be a popular day for these places because I only found two other people surfing around.  I did take a ride on the ISTE skydiving machine.  That was fun.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll keep you posted on how things go this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been toying with the idea of giving Second Life another try. Last summer I wasted a couple of days trying to find some educational use for SL. For the most part, it was one big chat room. You &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/04\/22\/second-life-second-try\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[336,5],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edtech","tag-edtech","tag-secondlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}