Brief Review of Introduction to Second Life--Part II

Part one (the webex session) was reviewed previouly.  http://sla-divisions.typepad.com/sla_in_second_life/2008/10/brief-review-of.html

I attended the second session of Part II, which took place at the SLA property in Second LIfe.  Check the SLA in Second Life wiki for the schedule.  You will need to register for the sessions.  Several more one hour sessions are planned for November and December.

Approximately five of the eleven people who registered showed up for the class.  Instructors Steven Source (RL Scott Brown) and Violet Portola (RL Christy Confetti Higgins) both from Sun MicroSystems  began the class with general introductions and some basic instructions on how the class would proceed.  The instructions to begin questions with @ and indicate that a task had been completed with # were a handy way to aid communications.

Violet then provided the class with a syllabus on what would be covered:

* SLA Space
* How to communication in Second Life
* How to make friends
* Sitting
* Profiles
* Home locations
* How to teleport a person
* Creating a home location or landmark
* Search
* Groups
* Security
* Away from keyboard guidelines (AFK)
* Second Life Voice / Media
* Creating a Notecard
* Visting Info Island

We had just covered  SLA space and had begun walking from the fire pit to the building, when Violet disappeared.  Steve took over and covered the rest of the class.  He did a good job.  It is hard to manage a class when so many of the students are new to each other, the class, and even Second LIfe itself.

We were shown how to teleport, offer friendship, pass out notecards, profiles, groups, set landmarks and home. We ran out of time before we covered security or visited Info Island.  I was looking forward to learning how to create a notecard.  An hour past too quickly and I wish we had had more time.

It was nice to see that the SLA building now offers a teleport board to get to other locations within Second LIfe.

Photo of the instructors--Steve is sitting on the left, Violet is standing on the right.  Biblio is sitting in the middle

Note--Christy/Violet and Steve/Scott have offered a makeup class because of the technical diificulties that were experienced in this one.  These avatars really go the extra mile for their students.   See Christy's comment for an explanation of the technical difficulties.

Comments

[Chrsity]

Sorry everyone! I lost my home internet connection for over an hour - raced over to Starbucks but too late!

Thanks to Scott for taking over!

Christy (SL: Violet Portola)