Long Way – Point Eight – Courses for Newbies

“Knowledge is power.”

We learn ourselves during the whole life, whether we want or no. Sometimes it is a spontaneous thing, at other time we have to do it. It means we have to attend some educational institution, which is usually a school. It begins sometime in a kindergarten and continues at basic school right to higher variant of education. Well, after that there are other educational methods like a self-study, courses or a university of the third age.

The Second Life environment is like created for that to organize courses, tutorials, meetings, etc. After coming of a voice chat into SL, the education moved to another qualitatively higher level. Well, even if phraseology and speech style of some avatars was not correct or standard. By the way, do you know that when Linden Lab announced the implementation of voice chat into SL, the big protests appeared, also demonstrations? Nevertheless, in August 2007 you can communicate with other avatars using your own voice.

So today, there is no problem to use voice chat by different activities in SL. 8th March 2008 was an important day for me. I gave a lecture at the first course from the series of the lectures for the newbies in our community in city Bohemia. Of course it was without voice chat only with text chat. There were purely rational reasons for that. Some people did not have installed voice chat and did not want it or were not able to use it. Because of my text writing, the whole lecture was hard to lecture preparation and management. Unfortunately, I have no any pictures form this time, but the lecture room in Telefónica O₂ building was rather full. And actually what about talked I, respectively wrote I, there? Here is the handout of this lecture for interest:

1. What Second Life (SL) is?
1.1. General presentation of this phenomenon.
1.2. History.
1.3. Definition of some names.

2. SL enviroments.
2.1. Terrain – sims, islands, space, area, objects.
2.2. Avatar – human beings, possibilities.
2.3. Communication – languages, media.

3. Entrance.
3.1. SL main portal.
3.2. SL client.
3.3. Security.

4. What can I do in SL?
4.1. Earning – money, camping, surveys, Earn2Life, job.
4.2. Communication with avatars.
4.3. Entertainment.
4.4. Objects creation. Building.

5. Ethic and behavior in SL
5.1. Question of avatar age in real life.
5.2. Reciprocal behavior among avatars.
5.3. Weapons, violence, bans.

6. Premium Account

This series of courses continued with other topics later. And as it is seen today, some of them are repeating because of big interest, for example, course about scripting.

Actually, I am realizing now that I could reincarnate me only for image into avatar shape, which I had by this lecture.