Second Life-1

This is my first time to use Second Life. Our group has four members. Robert, Perlie, Sunnie, and me, Tiffany. My role in second life is Tiffany0207. She is a white woman. She has black long hair, brown eyes and white skin. She wears a white shirt, black jacket and a pair of jeans. All the new born characters appear at the beach of the island of beginner. There are white sand, blue sea ,some rocks and trees. We find that the roles can do some movemonets, including waving and all kinds of funny dancing. So we all do funny movements to each other. Then I start to explore this virtual world, controlling my role to move forward. She can walk as well as fly. By pressing Page Up twice she can jump to the air and start to fly. It is very interesting to have a bird's-eye view of the island and sea. Besides controlling the roles, we also learn other functions such as teleport and call. It takes some time to get familiar with all these functions.

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Question1: What are new strategies, skills, and abilities needed to interact with text on the Internet?

Our conclusion is that it is important to have the ability to type in English quickly so one can chat with others on the net. But for people who can't type quickly they may also use Skype and just talk directly. And we can use videos and images to accompany with our spoken English so that people can understand easier.

Question2: How can reading processes be supported by new and varied forms of moblie technology?

We think that new mobile technology like Ipod enables us to save thousands of hundreds of electronic books in it instead of bring a lot of heavy books at the same time. We can just bring an Ipod. And there are lots of apps for Ebooks. Some of them can read out the text for you so you don’t have to look at the text and you can just listen to it. Also some mobile technology can translate the foreign text into Chinese so we can read other countries’ websites’ information as well. Last but least, thanks to mobile technology, readers don’t have to wear glasses because they can just use fingers to enlarge the words.