It all started a month or so ago when i read an article in popular science about Second Life. Then I found an article in MIT's technology review from 2005 that mentioned the economics of second life. I thought it might be interesting to play with in my emerging tech class, and set the articles aside for review.

A student tried it out and was excited about it, and i mentioned it to a dean or two, and about the same time a few more articles started popping up, and i did some basic research.

Which culminated in my boss' boss asking me to figure out how to make it happen, and to make it happen, with pretty rapid deadlines.

So first steps:
-create account, verified with my card
-muck with my avatar- too complicated, walk around with white and blue shirt coat using flag texture for first week until someone gave me some regular clothes
-spent way too long a week into trying to make my face look like my real face, but then giving my ears pointed tips, and making my hair silver-gray
-requested education island space- waiting to hear back
-learned about first land, and got some
-built my first primitives (prims) as big flat boards to put on my property
-and so on.

So this is a place for me to start putting this al together, though I'm wondering if a wiki wouldn' tmake more sense...

the impetus? The SLED list had this link, and i needed a place to put it:
http://ets.tlt.psu.edu/virtualworlds/