Campus Week in Second Life

Campus Tour Week:

This week we were suppose to pick a partner and go into Second Life. We needed to tour and explore another college campus in Second Life. My partner was Holly and we were assigned Bowling Green State University.  The University was very well done. I thought the detail in everything was very well. I could not help myself from comparing it to Epcot at Disney. It had that future world appearance with all the buildings but then it had some old country areas as well. It felt like I was back in Epcot. It had a couple of good things in there. I loved the dance and music area. You could click on the dance statute and your Avitar could do all kinds of crazy dances.  Also the campus was divided up in 4 areas or islands; Creation, Collaboration, Community, and Interaction.

Below is the other part of our Assignment. We had to take a couple of pictures together while we were touring.  Ok, we will see you next week!

Reflection: Second Life

This week we signed into Second Life. I was not too happy about this from when I first heard of this. But the more that I work with it the more I like it. The first class meeting we had was the first time that I really felt a part of a class while being online. It was strange at first but it does seem like a good thing. I can see why so many people get hooked on this type of thing. Also, I see how it is a very important to Universities and other educational programs. Another advantage of using this for educational reasons is the fact that you don’t have to actually go to class and you can save money on gas and tuition being a distance education option.

See all of you later in SL

My Avitar: DougieAustin

Ok, here is a little description about my avatar. This somewhat looks like me. I am a jeans and short type of person. I love wearing layers of shirts. Like with this one I will wear a long sleeve shirt under a t-shirt. I like doing that in the winter instead of wearing a jacket. I have a goatee and wear glasses. I am also a big hat and visor person. This hat I am wearing kind of looks like the hat I and all of my friends wear when we are out on the lake in the summer. Ok, don’t ask hahahahaha. Nike shoes are my think unless I’m at work in church.  Hope you enjoyed reading about my avatar and looking forward to yours.  My name of the avatar is DougieAustin. My nick name for years was DougieFresh but that was taken. So some of my friends call me DougieAustin.

Wordle and Facebook

Wordle and Facebook

This week we finished up our Facebook assignments. We were able to join our ECU class group page on facebook. Now we will get assignments and other tasks from this social networking site. This will be something new for me. I have always just worked out of Blackboard or Moodle. I think it will be new and interesting.

Also this week we worked with Wordle. This is something that I have some knowledge of. The teachers in the district are working with this and helping students with this program. For my Wordle picture I took the Delicious and Flickr blog postings. I copied this into Wordle and thin used the windows built in snipping tool. This is the first time that I used the snipping tool and it worked great. So if you get a chance to look at my Wordle it is below. I thought it was cool which words were eye catching and gave you different look at what was posted.

See you next week!

Wordle on Web 2.0

Social Networking & Twitter

This week we learned about twitter and Facebook. This week was a fun week. I was already familiar with Facebook but we did some things that I don’t do a lot of. I don’t join a lot of groups on Facebook. We joined the BITE group so we could keep in touch and see what was happening in our group. Twitter is another 2.0 tool that we learned about. This is something that I have never done before but have seen this on just about everything you look at. You see professional athletes getting in trouble all the time with what they say on Tweeter. It was cool to post something in a 140 characters or less. I found myself trying to put as much as I could in one tweet. Also thought it was cool that you could join a group and only certain people could see what was being posted or said.

Ok, that’s about it this week. Was a good weekend. Went to the Dixie Classic Fair and had a blast!