Sitting in a desk chair, the notion surfaces once more that I need a more comfortable chair. Not just a chair, but a working platform, a helm; yes, I am thinking something more like a dentist’s chair. Padded, tooled-up, with a motorized reclining feature. Of course, my (new) dual monitors will have to be mounted – or better, suspended – from above so that I can continue to do what I am doing this very moment, which is interacting.

Because I am going to be here for a while.

If young learners are to be guided, perhaps escorted, within a learn-on-demand campus such as Second Life, then there will need to be training camps for the mentors. Maybe even networked teams of roving avatars (think social media). How is this different? What are the features of this place that serve the big picture? What in Kimi’s tutelage is unique when compared to Education 1.0? One difference, it feels like friendship.

Look at what we have now. In just under four days, I was been able to learn to build, script, explore, and even dress myself. Granted I had spent many hours with Second Life: The Official Guide, but still, a motivated learner has all of the information available to get going, moving forward. Look at what I am doing now, no word processor or application suite. I am writing a note that can be posted to anyone in the world, drawn from as content for another application, even e-mailed out to the outer grid (snapshot the note, select e-mail to friend).

I have created and designed.

Regardless of the debate (see Scoble’s threaded discussion) over whether this is an OS or not, what matters is this: Will we find what we need to communicate right here, at our fingertips.
I write this entry after having spent two RL (real life) hours in a dance club. The visual stimulation inspired me to come up with my own acronymious teen speak (You know, the short abrev/fonix type words that young people are text messaging and IMing while some of us (those who remember rotary dial telephones) wonder if they may be doing it just to be obscure.)

IO

IO = information overload. There was so much going on; music, dancing, costumes, chat text, IMing, that i could hardly take pictures of my new friends (all my SL friends were there !). At times I had my browser open with a blog or wiki to learn about SL, or about how to SL, or whatever else i might do on the WWW. But in this case, my virtual self was doing some salsa dancing with my mentor, Kimi. Later, I would actually jump up onto one of the floating pedastals myself, and earn a bit of kipper while the music thumped. Dancing actually freed me up to do more of this that I am doing right now – generating content.

WAW.

(What A World.)