Virtual Environments, Katie in Second Life

Hi, Katielloyd99 back for week three, this week I – well really it was Big Katie (BK) messed up. We were meant to meet up with our team and start getting to know each other, unfortunately, BK didn’t know what group she was part of, and here is a prime example of issues arising when working online. I had a good time, I went around Second Life (SL) and saw some new places, met some new people, yet I didn’t meet this week set task. I think BK should’ve contacted Tae, but she didn’t, and I am now one week behind, and I didn’t get to meet my class! Update: I now know what group I am apart of and since finding this out I have reflected on how the problem occurred and how to prevent such things happening again in this or future projects. BK realised that Tae accidentally had her name written incorrectly and so her name wasn’t on the list, this is an the issue that could really affect projects, if a team member had an incorrect email address or due date that could really me

Hi, it’s Katielloyd99 and I’m back again for week 2! This week I have been tasked with meeting three new people in the Second Life (SL) world. Last week while visiting different locations I did see other people, but I didn’t talk to any of them, this week however it is my mission to meet people! I already know Big Katie (BK) doesn’t like meeting new people in the real world, so hopefully, this virtual world will make it a little easier for me. Location one; I went to “Bear Dream Lodge Inforhub”, I went here randomly, and I wasn’t quite sure of what the location was but there were a lot of people there. I knew there would be a good place to start when I teleported to this location, I could immediately see 9 people so I had many people to choose from who I would like to introduce myself to. I bit the bullet and introduced myself to “Lorelaei Taur”. I soon found out that in the real world, “Lorelaei Taur is a woman living in the United States, I quickly discovered that mak

Hi! It’s me katielloyd99, and it is week one of my Virtual Environments class. This week I was set the task to visit 3 new locations in the Second Life virtual world, of course, this would take me some time as I am still not fully confident in walking! I may be 26 years of age but for some reason, I feel like an all-new being… Strange. As my wonderful controller Big Katie (BK) is from Dublin, Ireland we decided that visiting virtual Ireland would be a good idea, so we logged in and arrived right in the middle of Dublin, next to the Blarney Stone Pub. I started walking around (as much as I could) banging into walls and such as I went, but I did make it across the Ha’penny bridge, into the Savoy and almost fell into the River Liffey. According to BK, a lot of this Dublin looked like real Dublin. It wasn’t the fastest to load, but I saw that as a good sign as it meant there was a lot to see and some great buildings, detailed wonderfully. I was starting to get the hang of things. I