Starting again... sort of

We've had a lot of changes since Winter Break.

Hargall -- our most advanced student -- moved and although he visits us in-world, he's not around to help the other kids in real life.

Several students (including Bree Mapp and Anthony Hawkeye who left the previous posts) have just joined. We've had six-eight students over the last two weeks, most of them more or less beginners.

We've also had company on the island: a 3-D Gaming group. Some were not especially friendly, but others were great and gave our students lots of structures.

Our bit of the island now looks like urban sprawl to the millionth power (or, like I imagine The Raft in Snow Crash looked) with buildings running into one another and tiny passages in and out.

Hector and I have started over, with assignment one. Trying to teach the new students the ropes, while Sin and Chestnut do some work on their own projects.

Hector's newest ideas are to give the students some kind of merit badge (or maybe more akin to belts in martial arts) for accomplishing programming tasks. I'm excited to start that. I'll post some pictures when we get that organized. But the kids won't be able to pass levels until they post their accomplishments here on the blog, so stay tuned for more frequent postings from us!

Second Life

Hello second life is very fun and you get to create things and even talk to people. You can have objects talk to you. There is cars, boats, and other cool things. I made a box today that talk to me it said Hi Anthony Box. Last week i made a swiming pool and everone like it. Thats why i like second life. Bye.............................................

Secon Life

Hello I just created an object that speaks to me. When anybody touches it. It says "Hello this is alexis box." The thing im goin to do next is make a rainbow object. I think second life is good because it helps your mind work and you have to remember the things. Theres alot of things like cars,boats swimming pools, couches, and other things.