Exciting week

We had our first class in Second Life this week--I had a tough time setting it up, but got it to work in time for class. The story:

I had worked on Second Life at my home computer--I had registered and begun weeks ago--but the graphics were fuzzy and took ages to load, if they loaded at all. Bad times. After searching the help pages (and talking to my classmates) we thought it might be my computer.

So the Sunday before class I loaded Second Life on my mum's computer. It worked as it should! Bright graphics, easy to understand. I was able to change my outfit and customize my avatar a bit. The only problem was I had to go to mum's for class--on the other side of town--and I had to take the kids. Once there it was no problem.

So I did. The kids were fascinated by the whole thing. My niece asked if she could play my game, and mum did not believe that this was class! It was funny. This week, more of the same.

I also have two big projects going at work--I gave a talk to the president's board (president of the college) about blogging. It was very last minute--they called and said please come tomorrow--and I had a lot of information to get together in a short time. Fun though! We have also been doing some podcasts for a book discussion group--writing them and recording them--and that takes extra time. PLUS I had a huge group for library instruction on Thursday. Usually I squeeze some schoolwork into my workday--with my supervisor's permission--but NOT this week!

Back to mum's for Second Life class on Wednesday.