Whimsyy's Life - Second Life

Whimsyy's Fifth Week The medium is the message: https://www.azquotes.com/quote/195279 Our Class this week was moved to the day before its usual schedule as our lecture was away and it was a more suited day to go ahead with the class. Not everyone could attend but I managed to re-arrange my plans to make it as I wanted to ask about the assignment given. John spoke about Marshall McLuhan and how he sees tools as an extension of what we can do as well as an extension of ourselves. We were using different tools as examples to explain how his thought process went. If you have a hammer, it’s a hammer simple as, but if you pick it up, it is now part of you. Depending on what you chose to do with it and now you see though the hammers virtual eyes, thinking of the things you can do with it. We make tools do certain things, but the manner in which we use it, can be a cure or a disease. This impacts how we see everything around us. We then talked about how this all depends on wha...

Whimsyy's Fourth Week We were asked to make a pitch to present during class just to help us get into the flow of presenting. I decided to go with "the question pitch" which I felt went best with what I wanted to pitch.  "The Question Pitch Ask yourself, ‘Are you better off now than you were four years ago? If your presentation’s central idea is already understood by your audience, a question pitch may be ideal. In the 1980 US presidential election campaign between Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter, Reagan asked a simple question, “Ask yourself, ‘Are you better off now than you were four years ago?’” Most people immediately understood the question and its context. Reagan became the 40 th  President of the United States.  For Hydrolyzier it might be, “How can you supply a rural village in Ghana, West Africa with clean drinking water in under 36 hours, and at less than 60% of the cost of other water purification systems?” Having been put into groups and discus...

Whimsyy's Third Week During our last lecture, the class was separated into five groups of six people. I was placed in the ‘Yellow’ group with 5 others, Muriel001/ JonathanBK/ Maevebrienny/ JeromeZZC and Cmragasa. I decided I wanted to get a start on gathering the group together so that we could get a start on the project assigned to us. I realized during the week that we all knew each other as only by our avatar names which meant I didn't know the real names of the people in my group. To be able to find them, I posted a comment on the SL facebook group page for all to see so that I could find team 'Yellow'; " Hey guys Whimsyy from the Yellow group, just realized we don't know o ur real names so had no way of knowing who is who. Could you just add a 'y' here so I can add you in a group chat to organise the meet up please and thank you in advance". One from the group wrote back so we decided to meet up in SL. We chose to go explore the pla...

                                  Whimsyy's Second Week  On our second week in SL we were discussing blogs and having an online voice. How the tone in the blog/ article could tell a lot about the writer. Before class we were asked to read 4 articles to get a feel for each one and during class discussed the differences between them. Gianni, who was a director and product designer, ‘Illustration Friday’ which was more about the images than the text. ‘Brain pickings’ which was a lot of quotes and Chris Brogan which even though it was a very business orientated blog, I found it interesting how it was presented, very factual. The task given this week I found to be difficult, to pluck up the courage to start talking to random people in SL seemed to make me nervous.   I chose to steer clear of ‘New Citizens Incorporation’ as it seems as if it is run by its second life admins ...

                                                                        Whimsyy's First Week                                          Image captured in SL of my avatar flying.  My Journey into second life began when I had to pick an avatar which best suited me. Instead of going into great detail of personalizing a character, I just chose to pick a default character as no one knew what I looked like in person apart from 4 people from my original class, I didn't feel the want or need for others to see what I really looked like. I also felt that being an avatar gave me a chance to step out of the ordinary so why look ordinary? I may change the avatar exterior look in time as it wont matter becau...