Second Lifeing from the coffee shop July 5, 2007
Posted by leon in meetings.trackback
The inaugural meeting of Naace Second Lifers was one of the more surreal moments in my life. I was actually accessing the meeting from a motorway service station somewhere outside Exeter - just having manned the Naace stall at the SWGfL conference for practitioners in Torquay.
Luckily I had recently invested in a portable Web and Walk broadband modem from T-Mobile and I can surf and interact from virtually anywhere - (Is this a good thing I ask myself?).
There was no way I would be able to get back to London from Torquay in the time needed so I set up shop in a coffee shop on the M5. I guess this is what learning platforms are all about in some cases. I need that ubiquity of access because of what I do and in this case it proved invaluable until the power ran out - no plug sockets in service station cafes :(.
I was quite amused to see all the same things happening in Second Life as happens in RL. People are late (including me), they shuffle in and information has to be repeated and protocols observed. The agenda shifts as everyone wants to get a word in or have their various needs serviced - and, of course teachers and advisors are no different to anyone else in this respect 
(big smiley).
I thought Jenny did an excellent job of it and considering it was a large group everyone was very engaged.
I am meant to be at a party in Soho tonight but I am not going to even try to multitask - I’ll need all my reserves to do half as good a job as Jenny did last night. It will be very interesting to see how the whole things evolves over the next few weeks.
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