Thing FIFTEEN

OK- Thing fifteen was all I'd hoped it would be and was. Second Life -Beyond Imagination. I really liked the OSU YouTube intro. It was well done and showed an application for the Academic Library. It is just plain fun! I had the opportunity to visit late-night with a hooker, and someone who appeared to be dead, but during the day, except for one character making a lewd comment, I was thoroughly involved in a second life.

The students of today think this way, it's easier not to get too close to another person, so texting is extremely popular, as is "writing on someone's wall" to communicate. I think it's all good, but we can't lose out on human face-to-face communication. It's great that you can sit in on book discussion talks on Info Island, but I think you lose your identity, and warmth, when you go into that virtual world. The possibilities are endless for educational purposes, as exhibited by the South Carolina Library System. There were training sessions scheduled, and links to web pages, as well as book links, and instructor pages. Because there is also validity for entertainment purposes, it has a lot of merit - There was SO MUCH STUFF!