On November 22, 2010, myself and 20 some-odd students from Dr. Yi-Fan Chen's Comm. 372 class attended the Career Management Center to participate and partake in a what is called "Second Life". For those who do not know what second life is, there is no need to worry, I too had no idea what Second Life was until I atteneded the group meeting on November 22nd. Second Life (http://secondlife.com/) is perhaps the most popular virtual world platform in use today, with an emphisis on social interaction. Second Life is a virtual world that is computer based, multi-media enviornment, usually running over the Web, designed so that users can "inhabit" and interact via their own graphical self representations known as avitars (Boulos & Hetherington & Wheeler, 2007). Below is a video explaining the main functions of Second Life.
Though I have no specific use for Second Life in my life. I do feel the multi functional tools and systems Second Life has provided for it users are very useful means of communication amoung one another form different geographical regions.
To learn more about Second Life, please visit the website: Second Life, Official Website
Boulos, M. N. K., Hetherington, L. and Wheeler, S. (2007), Second Life: an overview of the potential of 3-D virtual worlds in medical and health education. Health Information & Libraries Journal, 24: 233–245. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-1842.2007.00733.x
No comments:
Post a Comment