I hate to admit it, but I have been kind of a hermit in Second Life. I know, it is supposed to be immersive and social and interactive with other avatars. My problem has been that I have good computer access around 4am CST. I find that there aren’t as many people on Second Life at that time! Well, I have had an interactive, 3-hour session today; and it was great. When the presenter explained that some people didn’t have avatars yet, and it would be an introductory session — I decided just to go try building and playing with that holodeck. While I did that a bit, I was really drawn to interacting with people, too! This same thing happened at the scripting class last week when we were working on a slide show presentation that we build ourselves. I also learned some new things, too.
Check out the Mystic Tool for blogging. It is a HUD that allows you to send blog entries from in world.
When your avatar is doing something (like laying on the floor reading), others might just see it standing there! That really brought the client/server aspect in focus for me.
I really need to take a look at Moodle and Sloodle again. Sloodle has classroom gestures in a HUD.
Edunation II is a pretty cool place!
Winlight is a beta version of SL that seems to work nicer with Vista