Blog #9

Today a team member and I each had to create an introduction for our position essay. I am writing about virtual terrorism. Does it exist? My position on the essay is that I truly believe groups are now using 3d virtual worlds to find new ways to obtain money and communicating through these worlds. They also have websites that show "virtual bombings" of buildings blowing up. Anyways it helped me out a whole bunch because it helped me to set up a timeline and create a thesis for my paper.
It helps to have another person's opinion on what is being written. They can help see errors that you had in spelling, punctuation, and word choice. When I write I usually understand what I am writing. When someone else reads my paper they help me to realize that I have many run on sentences and fragment sentences. I like working with other people on papers because I receive their perspective and try to understand my audience so I can write a better paper.

blog # 8

In my assignment today, I was to explore an island that is related to a subject in school and write about it. The Island I went to is called the Native American Museum. When I first teleported to the island I walked around to see what it had to offer. It was a very small island, but they were still doing construction and fixing the island up. The island was connected to other islands which I had to walk to because I could not fly in the area. The other islands contained Native American shops and kivas (ceremonial chamber, but I headed back to the Native American Museum.

The first interaction that caught my attention was a glowing dream catcher with nine feathers attached. I placed my mouse on the icon and each feather contained a story passed down from their ancient ancestors. Each story is unique and quite interesting. The stories were about the native people before the discovery of America. After I read through all the feathers I walked to the center of the island where there was a huge drum surrounded by other small drums. I connected my earphones to the computer and clicked on the icon and played the biggest drum I could find. Each drum contained different drum beats from different tribes of Native Americans.

I walked around a little more and stumbled upon a wooden shack shop. The shop contained headdresses, axes, clay pots, and artwork which could be purchased with the Linden currency. I then walked to the information center where I received the most information about Native Americans. The Information Center itself was a teepee , and located in the middle of the teepee a fire burned. It contained artwork, signs, and different pottery scattered all around which were icons. When I clicked on the different icons it sent me to different websites which provided addtional information about Native Americans. On the way out there was a donation box to which visitors could donate money to their cause, where I was unfortunately unable to offer any money so I decided to leave Second Life.