8.14.2007

NMC Conference in SL: Day Two

How does the idea of a conference session conducted entirely in chat sound? Kinda like watching a foreign film with subtitles? Close....

I'm not sure if it had to do with technical difficulties, but there were several sessions today that were held entirely in chat, which was not the case yesterday.

This got me thinking about the things that I truly enjoy in FL conferences: seeing old friends, meeting new people, hearing and watching sessions, collecting materials, etc. Maybe this is a little old school, but not much of that is available in a virtual space. I do understand that SL is still in its infancy and that many things are clunky at the beginning.

Other sessions, like Larry Johnson's Why Creativity Matters were very engaging (and incidentally, very FL).

Also, what's up with the name bubbles that float over our heads--sometimes there are so many of us around that the bubbles block the presenter's screen!

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