Coming Soon – Faculty/Staff Beach Club
Posted on September 3, 2008
Filed under Announcement, Helpful, News and tagged Second Life
Situated behind the SDSU campus and next to the Library, the new Faculty/Staff Beach Club will be a one of a kind in Second Life. A Beach Club, you’re thinking?? What about learning how to teach in SL?
During the Gustav crisis, we received a request to use our SL facilities in case New Orleans’ schools might need emergency locations to conduct classes. I thought, “now that’s a resourceful idea.” I mention it because it reminds me that people create their own uses for technologies and that’s what we’re continuing to do.
We’re going to elevate the entertainment and social value of Second Life and push aside for near future the fact that Second Life is an educational technology. (Read this post and this post for more on SL as an educational technology.)
The Beach Club is about hanging out in SL in our casual San Diego kind of way. It’s about having a fun place to meet, chat and do Second Life kinds of things. It will have the usual SL and real life amenities such as indoor & outdoor lounging areas, a campfire, swings. Swimming, diving, water sports (e.g. jet-skiing, sailing, canoing), music, dancing and cocktails, a gift shop and informational counter.
It’ll be open and available 7/24 to all SDSU faculty and staff. Students are welcome too. If it sounds like play, that’s what we’re inviting you to do. But don’t be mislead into thinking that’s all it’s about. Are you working on an international project? With a team of folks spread across the country? Second Life & 3D environments are used more and more as places to meet, when distance and time is a concern.
Suzanne
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I think this is an excellent idea Suzanne! Much of my learning to be comfortable in SL has taken place through casual trial and error and peer mentoring. The Beach Club sounds like a wonderful way to network, try out ideas, and dust off that fabulous virtual swim suit that’s been neglected in my inventory.
Oo! I’ve got to put swimwear into the gift shop inventory. Thanks for reminding me. And thanks for the feedback. I’ve too learned everything I know about SL is more or less the same way.