Second life? Really?

Today we had a woman come in to teach us of all the interesting and applicable things we can do with second life in education. I'm gonna have to take a pass on it though and say there's roughly nothing you can do with second life in education.

If you really do need me to elaborate, I'm not sure what to tell you. It was a joke, a waste of time, a sham, I wanted my money back.

On the second half, however, we did learn a bit about copyright laws in education. Pretty much "if you didn't make it, you better not use more than 5 minutes of it." Which seems fair superficially. But when you realize that certain things would be valuable to our society as a whole if they were free in education it starts to break down.

Day 8

Today we learned how to use 2 fairly interesting pieces of software which pretty much both have the same function or making movies/slide shows. The first piece of software seemed to be much easier to use than the second one as it pretty much spoon fed you what you needed to do at each step. The second piece of software may have been more advanced but I could not see as many features that would be needed. I have a hard time seeing where movie/slide show presentations would be usable in a science classroom. They may function a lot better on the humanities side. Either way the presenters did a good job presenting their respective software.