Why Hello My beautiful Followers. The presentation today was a real exciting one for me because I have had some experience with Second Life and have done a research project on the different aspects of Second Life. I did a research paper for a class in my undergraduate degree which involved researching Second Life. My paper was comparing the literary secondary worlds such as Lord of the Rings, and Harry Potter with the Cyber secondary world such as Second Life. I found a lot of interesting things while researching Second Life and its participants. In my research I found a lot of handicap and disfigured members of society were heavily into the game on Second Life. They felt as if it was a second chance at life and live a life they had set out through their avatar. I found a lot of paraplegic people felt that they had the opportunity to not only to walk through their avatars but to fly. For example in the recent Blockbuster movie Avatar by James Cameron portrayed the main character as a paraplegic on purpose in order to show how much satisfaction a disabled person get through the portrayal of their avatar. I find this to be fascinating and it is something that is interesting to research and understand more about. As educators we work with a lot of students that have disabilities and I feel that this program is something that could help students get a real life satisfaction. I believe that Second Life is something that is an interesting topic that classrooms can research and use a classroom project in order to develop understanding of businesses and how money works with Linden Dollars. This is defiantly a program I would suggest to teachers in business administration as a project for developing a business perspective and look at the game in that aspect. Overall this presentation was really interesting to me because of my background in Second Life and it was defiantly something that I would recommend to teachers to incorporate this into their classroom.
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YO YO Sharda!
ReplyDeleteSo our two posts really are opposite ends of the spectrum, but I totally see where you are coming from. I like how you called Second Life a "Second Chance at Life" because some of these people probably need that escape from their reality. My initial thoughts were that people were using Second Life because they hated themselves. After reading your post I realized that these people perhaps do accept and love their lives, but want the chance to do in fantasy what they can not in reality.
Later skater! ;)
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so i thought i already commented on this blog, sorry shards. i too think that we can use this is the classroom in some aspect. second life is a game to me tho, for the most part. i agree about the using this as a lesson in money and buisness too, the linden $'s would be a great way to incorperate it into the classroom. ur statement saying that it is a second chance of life is mind blowing man, thats deep. great blog sharda!
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