Another Second Life presentation, a different set of problems. This time it really wasn’t Second Life itself, but because the room’s Internet access was flaky, my Avatar was stuck floating in the air and couldn’t be moved at all to the venue where the virtual presentation was taking place. Many others in the room never got to even login. Acki.

I believe that educational SL enthusiasts need to continue to develop, expand and improve the platform. But I have to wonder with us still having such difficulties in such an open supportive environment as Full Sail, I find it hard to believe that SL, as an educational tool, is not going to reach the tipping point in terms of widespread usages for quite some time. Let’s just say that the difficulties this afternoon were enough that I was taken out of the powerful nature of this presentation by the two advocates of ed-use of SL who were speaking from somewhere else in the country. I think, for the time being, that the sense of ‘being there together" could be better served if we all logged into one of the streaming video chat services like Stickam or U-Stream and we could see the smiling faces of the speakers and have our own faces on the virtual wall of monitors behind the main virtual presenters.