This document summarizes the narrator's journey exploring various virtual worlds in Second Life, including required sites like Kuttara Zen, Multiple Intelligences, and Bloom's Taxonomy. It describes the challenges of navigating as an avatar and discusses lessons learned about different types of intelligence. The narrator enjoyed colorful, interactive worlds but had technical issues staying logged on. Overall it was an exploratory experience visiting educational sites in the virtual world.

1. Second Life:
My Native Journey
Interpersonal & Intrapersonal Skill Development (IP2)
Donna Wyckoff
a.k.a.
DONNA Wardell

3. Imagine

4. Not a bird

5. Not a bird

6. Not a plane

7. Not a plane

8. Not even

9. Not even

10. It’s YOU
in
Second Life
A place where anything is possible!

11. It’s YOU
in
Second Life
A place where anything is possible!

12. Philip Rosedale said it
best, “Virtual
worlds...represent
essentially the likely
really tactically possible
version of space
exploration. They allow
us to re-invent
ourselves, and anything
and everything is
possible.” (2008, May)
click on arrow top right to advance
images captured from TED video filmed May, 2008

13. My journey began as assigned - well, I did travel around in
uncharted territory a little before starting the assigned
journey - in the Orientation World.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/NMC%20Orientation/69/107/32

14. At first I thought this was all a bit creepy, and it was a little tricky to get my avatar
to move like I wanted. But the most frustrating part for me was getting kicked off
every 3 minutes, and then when I logged back on I either got a blurred background
with a white cloud, or my avatar would start flying or walking and I could not stop
her. I did get to practice:
walking running turning
flying changing appearance chatting
touching sitting playing piano

15. But after moving back and forth between my PC and MAC,
emailing FSO and Second Life support, uninstalling and re-
installing the software, creating a new user for my MAC (none
of which corrected the problems), I finally got to start my
official journey into the required virtual worlds...

16. Required Sites
✴ Kuttara Zen
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Kuttara/119/61/21
✴ Multiple Intelligences
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Koru/58/212/0
✴ Bloom’s Taxonomy
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Teaching%204/222/150/25
✴ Weather island
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Weather/114/5/26
✴ Svarga
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Svarga/128.0/128.0 SOLD
✴ EdTech Island
http://slurl.com/secondlife/EdTech/129/128/24

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18. I also got to practice jumping again. I thought I had
it mastered in the orientations, but these directions
aided my jumping skills, which I so desperately need
since I am NOT a kinesthetic learner.

19. This part really excited me since I love to dance. Usually I
enjoy country and western dancing, being from Texas and all,
but dancing with a pose ball wasn’t all that bad - and I really
miss dancing since I broke my leg! I learned moves that I
certainly would not do in reality, but ANYTHING is possible in
SL!

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notecard welcomed
me into the room and
asked me to try all that
interested me. It asked me
to email or IM a notecard
telling what I thought about
this world. Then it even
game me things to
consider as I
explored:

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I looked into the mirror and
reflected about what I saw -
inner thoughts and meditation
help me understand myself and
set goals. I like me!

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This circle would be a great area for
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Either something teacher assigned or
heck, why not just a conversation. It’s
all about communicating effectively
with others & being social.

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I am a spatial person,
but moving these
blocks around to
create something
artistic was not my
forte. I am a visual
learner which is
probably what placed
me above average in
spatial intelligence.

24. ical
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I love music although I
do not sing nor do I
play an instrument
anymore. I did when I
was in school. But I
use music in my
classroom almost
every single day for a
purpose AND because
I just like music and so
do my students!
Touching the instruments and hearing the sound was fascinating
to me! I enjoyed this lesson very much!

25. ry
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Lit
Literary intelligence is probably my third highest
intelligence. Unfortunately I did not make it to the literary
segment of this lesson. After trying for 2 weeks, I decided
that it just wasn’t meant to be for now. I will keep trying.

26. ical
Mus
This is the color I see when I am expected to do math!
Math-UGH!
This is my weakest
intelligence.
A + B equals nothing
to me; they are the lst
two letters in the
alphabet. I do NOT
do math; it’s exactly
why I have a financial
advisor!

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29. It made me quite sad to leave this Multiple Intelligence World. I
thoroughly enjoyed the color and interactivity of it all- except, of
course, the literary lesson, which I plan to return to soon!

30. Another colorful
lesson that
I truly enjoyed
studying because
I AM a
visual learner.
Seeing the colors along
with the elements of the
Cognitive Process was
delightful!
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31. These two pictures
show other notecards
that I read; then the
picture in the bottom
right corner illustrates
what my avatar did at
will. She would begin
walking, and I could not
get her to stop. She
walked right over the
top of the lesson blocks.
Although it is a pretty
picture; it is not
conducive to wandering
through a SL world.

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33. Here you could pick your lesson that played on all three television sets
mounted on the glass ceiling. I preferred the one about Maui and surfing hot
spots. It talked about the best winter surfing location, Jaws, located on the
north shore of Maui. The Pacific storms crated waves called swells in winter
they move to Maui. Waves collide with the ocean floor and the reef and lava
that together created a tongue that causes monster waves and swells. Steve
Wells was the expert who spoke in the video as I watched in the background
for a glimpse of my favorite island Maui.

34. The Weather Channel
presented Rapids in
Idaho!
Called the rapids
“frozen liquid
gold.”

35. My favorite and most relaxing part of this world. Reminds me of what?
MA U I

36. My favorite and most relaxing part of this world. Reminds me of what?
MA U I

37. When I entered this world,
there was a helper at the
welcome sign. Below left, I
studied the menu and
decided to go toward the
Center for
Virtual Educators.
EdTech Island
http://slurl.com/secondlife/EdTech/129/128/24
On the way to the Center for
Virtual Educators, I passed the
Holodeck classroom,
innovative teaching spaces (to
the right). I tried to enter, but
it was closed.

38. Inside
the Center...
I visited Gaming in SL, Teen SL,Video Tutorials,
Educational Technology, Tools for Teachers, and the
last image is what happens to my screen when I can
no longer see where my avatar is going or what’s in
the room. I completed a survey that was created
in Survey Guru in the Educational
technologies booth and wandered from
booth to booth reading and looking
at available activities.
Started Here

39. On my way to the
treehouse,
I saw a cool memorial where you could get a
flower and place it there. When I got to the
treehouse, the stairway was quite challenging to go up
so I decided it would be quicker to fly. When I got
there, wowee! It was beautiful. I looked at the window
where people were resting; I got me a chair in front
of the fireplace and relaxed before going to look
out the window with the flat screen television.
Quite a view from the treehouse!!

40. I decided to
fly from
treehouse for
a bird’s eye view of
EdTech Island

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