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Have you ever stretched out your arms and flown across the land?

Forget the scripting, forget codes, forget the maths, forget manuals, forget the building skills, forget anything but the most basic tutorials UNITL you have lived your Second Life for a few hours/days. Learn to walk, enjoy the freedom of flying, enjoy discovering the world, meet new people, learn how to make your avatar yours, learn the new language and immerse yourself in your new Second Life.

Posted on June 4, 2007 at 12:28am —

SLURL - a URL that takes you the NAACE Lounge

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Huineng/116/148/88/

This URL will teleport you to the NAACE lounge.

Follow the link or copy and paste URL into your browser. You need to have SL open, press the orange "Teleport now" button on your browser. The map will then show up in SL, press "Teleport" button. You will end up at the flag just outside the lounge.

Posted on June 1, 2007 at 2:31pm —

NAACE UK Group created

I have created a NAACE group on SL. If I know your Avatar's name then I have invited you to join. If I dont, please find search box at the bottom of the SL screen and enter NAACE under the Group tab. You should find it there. Press "Join" to join the group.

Posted on June 1, 2007 at 2:13pm —

NAACE Lounge

I have created a lounge - somewhere to meet; somewhere to chat. I will send interested parties the Land Mark when you join the SL NAACE group

Posted on May 30, 2007 at 8:59pm — 1 Comment

Interesting times ahead

I find this experience quite a challenge. I use Second Life (SL) to meet in world friends, do a little land speculation (YES! You can make real money!), I design and make virtual clothes, learn building and scripting skills and all in my own private personal time. MY TIME! Whilst I have read a lot about the numerous universities and learning groups sharing this world with me, I have not ventured too far into the serious side of SL. This has definately been my play thing and not my work thing.

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Posted on May 25, 2007 at 10:58pm — 1 Comment

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At 10:22am on June 8, 2007, J Pearce said…: You are in good company being a Homewood; the other Homewood is me! I have added both of your names to my Friends' List. When you next log in you should have the invite to accept friendship from me. I look forward to meeting you in world.

Jenny

At 1:41am on June 8, 2007, Mgt Dee said…: Hi J,
thanks for the extensive reply. I use two avatars, WychElm Homewood and Bracken Homewood. WychElm is still making the most of the Help Island (there is a lot of stuff there including loads of tutorials!) but Bracken has ventured onto the mainland and even visited the Naace Lounge. I see someone else in the group has also chosen the 'Homewood' surname, but I cannot remember who it was.
I have bought and have been reading the book and I have been looking at the research and intend to experiment as far as possible with second life over some months. I can see its potential for MFL, particularly with distance learning and am comparing it to skype which I have been using for nearly a year. I am keeping an open mind and weighing up the pros and cons. So far, given the lack of distance factor in most school teaching, and the ready availability of REAL peers with which to interact it seems to be more trouble than the gains are worth. I am sure many youngsters would benefit from taking part in, say polo. But would the gains be worth the time, trouble and expense? I want to make sure that I find out as much as possible about what can be gained as well as what the risks and problems are before making up my mind. It will be very interesting to see what everyone else thinks. I will see if I can visit the Naace Lounge tomorrow earlier in the evening. Unfortunately SL will run only on the PC up in the spare bedroom. I can't just log in on the PC in my study where I spend a lot of time. I have to go up there and log on specially!
Margaret

At 2:20pm on June 7, 2007, Mgt Dee said…: Well I have been there a few times but never seen anyone else at the Naace lounge. When do people go there?
I have waltzed around and chatted with other residents, mostly American but a few European. I have even sort of managed to converse in French with one resident. Some generous people have invited me to their 'homes'. One suggested ways of making money there (as a stripper or excort!!! She told me she wouldn't dream of doing such things in real life but this wasn't real so why not!) It is all very interesting but ....

At 7:52am on June 1, 2007, DJD said…: Thanks for the tutorial last evening .... got me started on something that has sat there just waiting to be done

At 7:43am on May 31, 2007, Peter Twining said…: If you like comics then check out http://schome.open.ac.uk/wikiworks/index.php/The_Schome_Park_cartoon_poster which tells you about the sorts of things we have been getting up to in Schome Park (our island on the Teen Grid).

At 11:33pm on May 30, 2007, Philip Rees said…: It's strange getting used to another "you" but... It's fun! Just like ICT should be!

At 12:48pm on May 30, 2007, Heather Govier said…: I'm anthr novice. Look forward to learning with some old friends and some new;-)

At 6:04pm on May 29, 2007, Peter Twining said…: Hi - I've been playing (I mean working) with Second Life (both Main and Teen Grids) for a while now - have an island in each grid (SchomeBase and Schome Park). To be honest I'm useless at the techy side of SL (building, scripting yuk). Impressed that you make clothes!