Location: Many Places, Including Vassar University in Second Life
I was extremely excited to do the otherwise hum-drum work of checking links for a recent VWER transcript. We had a great session on 20 October, where more than 30 educators' avatars posted Web and SLURL links to good resources for educators new to virtual worlds.
The entire transcript can be read here. Because of the proximity to Halloween, I was in my "Loremaster" outfit by Tekelili Tantalus (plus top hat).
I arrived at the Sistine Chapel at the same time as a group of what I suppose were undergrads doing a SL field-trip. All of the avatars were from the latest bunch of Linden Lab starters.
Immediately, a German Shepherd told me "Ignatius, I could beat you up."
What was I to say in reply? "You and what dog-sled team?" or "I will suck your aura, canine primitive creature, until you are a withered mindless husk, one with Azathoth as he howls at the center of all matter, where shapeless horrors dance to the music of eldritch flutes held in nameless paws?"
No. I settled for "Go ahead. I'm a pacifist."
And very tired, after all of that grid-hopping. But there is still a lot to see out there in Second Life. Read about it and click those links here.
Students! I'm glad someone is still bringing classes into SL. Mine are off to OpenSim in a few weeks. No dogs allowed. For that matter, no dark gods who walk between the dimensions, serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen, allowed.
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