Monday, June 4, 2012

Reflection- Virtual class



  • Write about your likes and dislikes. 
It's enough interesting. I can dress my character up, fly across the river, and if I want, dance- I don't know how to have it dance yet, though.
I had to go to PC room because my computer is not capable to install Second Life. Half of the men in there are smokers and there wasn't a vacant seat for me in non- smoking area, so I had to try not to breathe for about 30 min... and I actually succeeded if you can believe!  hohoho


  • How could you use it for your teaching? 
 I'll let my students have a chance to make some foreign friends. It's obviously helpful to have a friend who speaks my target language. I saw that strangers had a chat casually. Students can join in it and build a writing skill. They can have a conversation verbally if they connect mic with computer. The sounds are pretty clear to understand.

  • What are the advantages and disadvantages?
We can differentiate our characters. As I mentioned earlier, I can choose everything I like in SL such as character and clothes.
I was in PC room during the virtual class so it was little bit hard to concentrate on the professor's talk. It took about 10 min to find the locate and teleport there. I made a phone call to ask help to my friend because I didn't know what to do at the first.
In my opinion, I'm not sure that Second Life is a proper program for teaching and learning. I  might say this because I don't understand what virtual class exactly mean and how to control my SL character yet.