A Techno Teacher’s Second Life

It all started with the Groucho Marx noses. That should have clued me in: this was not going to be a “sit behind a desk and answer questions politely” night. I have to say…out of all the evenings I have spent in SL, this one finally overwhelmed me completely. It was a good thing, don’t get me wrong…I like challenges. But I did have to turn off the computer for awhile when it was over to recover.

I thought I was supposed to be working at 7pm SLT. But, when I arrived, Laelia Laval and Knowclue Kidd were there already on the job. I was an hour early. Thank goodness…I got to work with the pros for awhile. Knowclue passed out the groucho noses, and Laelia convinced everyone present to try out Skype while in SL. (It didn’t take much convincing. We all jumped at the chance to try it out.) I had only skyped once before when KJ Hax trained me to be a docent. People kept showing up at ISTE and joining…so we had about 6 women talking on Skype and chatting in SL. Talk about multitasking!! And I thought ISTE socials were hard to keep up with! Hopefully I’ll look back at this night in a few months as old hat…but boy….it was absolutely crazy!

I owe Knowclue BIGTIME for sticking around through my shift to help me out. And also for the cool nose. Now all I need to find is a permanent partner for ISTE docenting…any takers? I’ll give you a free groucho nose!