The idea of building something significant in SL hasn’t occurred to me. I don’t mean creating objects; I can see the fun in that for a time being. I’m thinking more about the impulse to buy an island and build a structure on it so that I can have a place “to call home.” I don’t have that need at all and I just figured out why.

I ordered the “Official Guide to SL” based on the first customer review at Amazon. He described the book as a traveler’s guide book and talked about preparing for his numerous travels around the world.

SL is a foreign place…many places….a world. I think of my travels and time living abroad, which felt for many years like travel. This is my orientation to SL…it’s a place to explore and find out about, like a foreign country. My orientation to it educationally, is the same. A study abroad, or a field trip–that’s a far more interesting approach.