First Experience in Second Life

I had heard about Second Life in one of my tech magazines a few months ago. It intrigued me today because it feels like you can do almost anything with anybody. Limitless possibilities. Today, I learned how to adjust and manipulate my appearance, communicate with different folks, and build up my library and inventory of information. Thinking about this in teaching and learning terms, I think this can be effective in working with kids in that you can create characters, storylines, and lessons around stuff that looks familiar to them. In regards to communication with other characters and the environment, it can be beneficial in that an environment could probably be set up, an island, where kids go and communicate with differentiated lessons on an island. This would probably be better for the kids, who can work best on their own. We would have to worry about kids communicating though with each other and not being focused on the tasks at hand. Also, somebody called me a "nigga" today. Let's not even get into what kind of issues that brings up. I am still learning how to report an abuse though.