This is just too weird!  It really begs the question of what life is really about, and to me this is taking technology too far.

Here’s a comment from the site of Ohio University Second Life Campus: “In the future there won’t be any need for REAL social interaction, we’ll all just be blobs behind our computers living a virtual life where pimply nerds act like gangsters…”

I don’t think that’s going to happen but still..

After looking at several of the discovery sites I can see how it relates to education in terms of it being another information resource and how virtual worlds are representing major trends in education.  The work-related areas of Second Life (which don’t seem to represent the majority) are certainly relevant forms of literacies and do offer meaningful ways to reinvent the classroom. There are also significant possibilities with Second Life for displaying talent and creativity and also for students with disabilities.  One site describes Second Life as a world of endless possibilities, of imagination and discovery that breaks the bonds of traditional learning environments. I can see that this may be true but it still doesn’t resonate well with me. 

Each week’s activities seem to show me more and more firstly, the endless possibilities of Web 2.0 and secondly, how far removed I am from this cyber world… scary.