Interestingly enough, I spend about 30 minutes – maybe an hour navigating around Funfair in Second life. Just like the name implies it was a virtual fair with rides based off of real life carnival rides such as haunted houses, bumper cars, a Ferris wheel, drop zone, and etc. One thing that stood out and I was pretty impressed by was that someone actually designed a fully accessible haunted house in SL. It actually took work to navigate thru this small and cramped area, with monsters jumping out at you and ghosts painted on the wall as you turn a corner. I thought that was really detailed, the rides itself were all fully functional as well.
As for teaching DAI 227 in SL, I can see it happening maybe just for a specific week’s material. But I do not see it happening at all. The environment is totally different and lacks serious-ness; the teacher could be lecturing about a topic while a student(s) would be jumping off the Ferris wheel repeatedly as I have done so in my visit during the hour. It would however be fun to meet up in, except that idea lacks an incentive. Not too many students would just log in and hang out since student life is very busy, if it was required as homework or maybe even extra credit, then maybe. In terms of virtual lecture, it would be close to impossible, because I think people would just turn on SL and be AFK the whole entire time.
One thing that could become a downer is the lagging, I think its probably because of the my computer since I am running it on a laptop but if a student has an older computer, I am sure that the meeting up of 25+ students on screen would cause even more lag.
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