The document discusses an avatar in Second Life that is having trouble customizing her appearance to match the real person. While exploring Second Life, the avatar finds it fun but cannot fly very high or ride a horse virtual. Some favorite spots mentioned are Genome Island, where students can conduct virtual lab experiments, and NOAA Island to study weather patterns.

1. NEW ME IN SL Much like the old me

2. Do you think my avatar looks like the real me? Here I am inside the world’s largest geode.

3. Fixing my appearance; I am embarrassed to admit that I still can’t resolve things about my avatar looks; I originally wanted her to look just like me; but she doesn’t. I can’t seem to find better shoes and I can’t get rid of the denim skirt I picked up somewhere. (I confess that I made her thinner this time; the new skirt was making her look fat.)

4. Third Course but exploring is still fun

5. Getting an Earth Science Perspective: I transitioned from bio to earth this term. I would use SL to get ideas and research projects; I would encourage students to do the same; to use it to see what other users are doing for projects and allow this to influence their own work.

6. Learning to fly; for some reason I can’t fly very high and I bump into things; I can’t ride the horse, either, him I just go right through, like a virtual ghost.

7. Genome Island is one of my favorite spots Students can actually conduct experiments in virtual labs here; they can test out their own theories and it doesn’t cost any lab equipment; what a great preparatory environment; usually labs are limited to materials that must be pre-purchased and it requires a lot of planning.

8. A meeting from the summer term; and part of our live discussion.

9. NOAA Island Students can make weather predictions for their own region and test theories about weather patterns using the maps.