Fire drill also a fact of Second Life July 5, 2007
Posted by Gareth Davies in meetings.trackback
Tonight, we had our second meeting in Second Life, again in the Naace Lounge. Several minutes into the ‘lesson’, a message appeared on all our screens that this ‘region’ was being restarted. The equivalent of a fire drill in RL (Real Life). Failure to leave would mean you were ‘logged off’ the system. Unfortunately, there was no pre-arranged assembly point, or roll call, but Bill suggested we visit the Diversionarium, and a number of us teleported over there following his instructions. The Diversionarium is pictured above, and with music playing we soon became quite relaxed and managed to teach each other how to dance. Indeed, it was quite a ‘diversion’ from the formal nature of the learning that has taken place so far. And that’s what perhaps interested me most from tonight’s session. We’d learnt that we needed protocols to ensure everyone has their say, and it was pretty traditional - hands up if you want to say something (although I had trouble with this gesture, since my laptop keyboard does not have page up/down keys, which are used. I’ve been practising through, and now know how to do this without those keys). The other clue is that when you type, your avatar starts typing as well. So you can see if someone else is about to speak.
And of course, and after a hard day learning, just like my daughter, you just feel like lying down …
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