I learned a lot from visiting the Ivory Tower in Second Life, especially about the different building techniques important for our community partner project. The tutorial was hard at first because I was confused even where to start. Once I learned how to save the ‘notes’ to my inventory, I realized I could go around and collect the notes at each of the stations then have them saved for future use. I enjoyed the Ivory Tower when I was there with my group members. We helped each other with the different aspects of the assignment which made it easier and more fun.
My favorite part of the Ivory Tower was the building! (I wish we had more class time to practice this part). My first object was a ball shape and it took me awhile to figure out to build. Building was also more enjoyable with my group members because we could see what each other created and I could learn different techniques and building skills from them. Above is a picture of me at the Ivory Tower as well as a picture of me looking at two of my sculptures. On the left is a large circular ball with an American Flag themed texture/fabric. I liked looking through the different colors and fabrics when it came to building as well as creating my own avatar clothing. On the right is a cone shaped object with a tied-eyed pattern. This one was also fun to make. As simple as it looks, it took me quite a while to construct it.
It took a whole class period and time on my own to complete the tutorial at Ivory Tower. I downloaded Second Life on my home computer and that has helped me a lot. After the tutorial I felt more confident about my building skills on Second Life, but still very very confused about everything (especially, crossposting my pictures from secondlife to wordpress!) I followed the steps to crosspost my pictures several times and still my pictures did not show up on wordpress, only on the bloghud website. A lot of my classmates had this same problem so that was comforting. I copy/pasted the pictures for now. I look forward to more time learning about Second Life!
