tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6393024096561092606.post8034387321539383807..comments2020-06-23T02:04:45.843-04:00Comments on A Skirt Around The Issues: Kinda A Little (OK A Lot) "Creepy" with Many Quotation Marks InvolvedAmanda McGuire Rzicznekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12290224875178713929noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6393024096561092606.post-61644938306792853942008-03-13T17:07:00.000-04:002008-03-13T17:07:00.000-04:00I tend to agree with you. I tried out SL over a y...I tend to agree with you. I tried out SL over a year ago and found the learning curb a bit difficulty, (i.e. walking around, manipulating objects), and also found that SL was an enormous drain on my PC's resources. During my few weeks there, I visited English island and saw the potential for distance learning, but what's the point? It seems to me that having a dedicated...or at least closed platform for your classes would make more sense, and that the "game" aspect of it distracts from the actual learning that's going on. Yet I continue to hear about people teaching, researching, and collaborating in SL. I think the ideal SL students and teachers would be people who already use it for recreation and do not need to learn the technology at the same time they are learning content. That said, it may be an ideal training environment for designers, programmers and IT types, but what is the purpose (beyond the gimmick aspect) of putting a writing class in a virtual world?Aaron Schwartzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06555779952540106971noreply@blogger.com