No fun photos or screen shots for this post as I have been working on the lesson plans for the field school, getting the interactive pieces together, as well as editing some more video from real life field school to include in the sim.
I made Brock an avatar that looks a lot like him. And I realized that I wanted to make some avatar outfits for students who want to customize their avatars. While this seems silly, I think having a unique avatar correlates with feelings of individuality. And while a good part of field school involves community service, learning about the discipline, etc., I believe that a very important part of the field school process involves learning about yourself. No one goes to field school and leaves unchanged. So, I want the students at field school to have the opportunity to express their own unique individuality.
As I write this I have a dendrochronology video compressing on one machine, and another field school video compressing on a second machine. And now that I am done with this entry, I will be logging into Second Life on this machine. So things are pretty busy around here! It's like a little binary factory of ones and zeros.
