Hello!

So today we had a cool new experience on Second Life. In the office, Itay and Jeff logged us in to Second Life, an online community in which you participate and interact with avatars. I had read about it when doing research for Idit's slides, but seeing it blew my mind away! The reason we were on Second Life is because Idit had her presentation at NECC in Texas recorded live on Second Life. We had a good laugh during the presentation because Lee, someone who virtually works in the office, could not figure out how to sit down in the theater and I bet some people were annoyed at that since he was in the front row. Shannon was also friended by someone and then there was an attempt to teleport her somewhere else. Stalker anyone? For about 10 minutes we lost video and sound and so we missed a lot, which was unfortunate since Idit's talk was really interesting.
During the presentation, Aixsha mentioned that myglife and globaloria sites were down but Itay confidently showed us that it worked on his Windows and that the problem must be our Macs. However, when people in the virtual theater began to complain about an error they were receiving when trying to access these sites, Shannon, Jeff and Itay became a little nervous and anxious. It's a good thing Idit knew this might have happened and she made sure to do her presentation offline.
Since the site where we do ALL our work was down, the only thing I had to do for the rest of the time here is figure out Flash. I can't say I know anymore about Flash because I couldn't do one of the tutorials on the site. I don't know why I thought making a game was not going to be a hard task but after unsuccessfully figuring out Flash, I can now admire the kids' games even more.

Until Next Time,
~Leticia