Second Life
I'm headed back home to the Pacific Northwest in a few hours. I'm co-teaching a course that I hope will be an ethnographic study of Second Life. My students will explore the online environment and report on their findings each week. They'll discuss social and technical issues related to the technology and the built world.
I admit that I had only messed with Second Life briefly about a year ago. I dug around for my character name and password and found that somehow I had selected Japanese as the tutorial language. I suspect that the tutorial could tell me how to change language preferences, but, as Chris Farley once said in a skit on SNL, "I'm sorry -- I don't speak Japanese." Click here for the skit, courtesy of YouTube and some dude who violates copyright law.
To make things more interesting, I chose an Arabic name for my character. I was promptly approached by a guy from the United Arab Emirates. Oops.
I admit that I had only messed with Second Life briefly about a year ago. I dug around for my character name and password and found that somehow I had selected Japanese as the tutorial language. I suspect that the tutorial could tell me how to change language preferences, but, as Chris Farley once said in a skit on SNL, "I'm sorry -- I don't speak Japanese." Click here for the skit, courtesy of YouTube and some dude who violates copyright law.
To make things more interesting, I chose an Arabic name for my character. I was promptly approached by a guy from the United Arab Emirates. Oops.
Labels: japanese, second life, teaching