Small Snippets

This weeks class kicked off with a discussion on blogs we had researched and it led into the tone your blog can create. Some examples of peoples blogs we looked at were Dolce Merda, she comes across as a very friendly  person while Chris Brogan used his blog to advance his marketing career so the tone was relaxed and chatty. We also looked up ways to improve your own personal blog so that people will want to read it. During class we had two surprise visitors come in, neither of them were part of the class but surprisingly contributed in a positive way. They initially started clapping constantly, nearly making me cry with laughter but after asking them about themselves one of the men said he was from America and has been on SL for over 10 years, he made a point about how there are a lot of toxic people on SL. I haven't personally met anyone like that yet but I can see where he is coming from because people find it easy to hide behind screens when saying rude things since there is

I joined Second Life as part of a module in college. I didn't know what to expect at first, what the quality of the game would be and just how realistic it was. Turns out it is exactly what the title says, its a second life for some with places from the real world mixed with a certain level of fantasy. The first thing I wanted to do was customize my character which turned out way more difficult than I thought so now I have a cat stuck to my shoulder. Ill figure out how to remove it eventually. Not much happened in class it was mostly just figuring out the basics and helping everyone to connect. The work given was to find 3 places of interest and document them on a blog. The first place I went was Korea, I thought it would the country but no it was a clothing store, everything is confusing. I found a sign giving away free socks but I couldn't figure out how to take them which was heartbreaking. I left the socks in search for more. I went to another are title Korea this time