Wednesday, June 13, 2007

What is Second Life?

I've been teleporting around Second Life quite a bit these days to find out how educational it is. So far, with not much great success.

I have come across some interesting articles about it though. One is by Tiffany Widdershins who wrote a satirical piece on it. (link in title)

Another site I discovered reports on the Second Life Best Practices in Education: Teaching, Learning, and Research 2007 International Conference in the virtual world of Second Life. The event was the first 24 hour, international conference ever to take place entirely within a virtual world. Tons of pictures in Flickr that you can browse through.

1 comment:

micah_gideon said...

That's sorta' amusing, but what strikes me the most is the term Sim Game — it's only like a game, eh? What elements of a game have not been reproduced in Second Life?