Skydiving!
July 16th, 2006 by dmirliss
HA! What fun. Definitely something that I would not do in real life. There is a bit of a story behind my latest adventure of skydiving with new found friend Audio Zenith. I recently posted to the SLED listserve a bit of a formal blurb about the grad student group. Audio and another responded that they would prefer more informal conversations in SL which is fine by me but I think that some structure and formality would help poor struggling grad students, like myself. So I responded about the purpose of the group, blah blah blah. After reflecting on my response I started to feel badly hoping that no one would take that personally. When I saw Audio online I wanted to make sure it was all OK. Funny thing is that he had no idea what I was talking about, LOL, so we went skydiving!
Informal meetings are great - look how much fun this spontaneous get together was and what I learned about Audio and his 6 years of exprience in distance education. The social affordances of SL allows us to experience that “water cooler” talk that is known to bind communities. But without the formality of the Grad Student group and our meeting I might have never had the chance to meet Audio - what place does each have in building community?
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