Suffern Middle School in Second Life

Like a mama duck who nudges the ducklings into the pond to swim, I’ve “nudged” my teachers into Second Life.   Success is when they jump in on their own and start developing their own projects and lessons and both Liza Medina and Nicole Tarife have done just that!  I will be posting more examples of the student work  but wanted to get started by posting the actual lesson that was designed: realistic-fiction-second-life-project

Here is an unedited example of a portion of one group’s chat log:

[6:12]  Hermes SMSVoyager: I read monster
[6:12]  Amaliar SMSVoyager: hello.
[6:13]  Hermes SMSVoyager: k i’ll start.
[6:13]  Amaliar SMSVoyager: im 16
[6:13]  Hermes SMSVoyager: quote – who is speaking or saying the quote
[6:14]  Hermes SMSVoyager: ?
[6:14]  Amaliar SMSVoyager: monster?????
[6:14]  Amaliar SMSVoyager: oh< im not saying i. people are saying it about me
[6:14]  Hermes SMSVoyager: is there any certain person
[6:14]  Hermes SMSVoyager: ?
[6:14]  Amaliar SMSVoyager: his name is leo, he is realllyyyy anoying
[6:15]  Hermes SMSVoyager: oh and what can you in fer about the quote?
[6:15]  Hermes SMSVoyager: infer*
[6:15]  Amaliar SMSVoyager: well, i dont think its true, well some of it is. i just think i dont care what people say
[6:16]  You: do you guys love school like me?
[6:16]  Amaliar SMSVoyager: ummm ewww
[6:16]  Amaliar SMSVoyager: no way
[6:16]  Hermes SMSVoyager: i dont go to school i am like 19
[6:16]  Amaliar SMSVoyager: no college/
[6:16]  You: dont you go to a big school then?
[6:16]  Hermes SMSVoyager: what percentage of people like you hilliri and what percentage doesnt like you
[6:16]  Hermes SMSVoyager: ?
[6:17]  Amaliar SMSVoyager: i dont no, my group like me but i dont care about anyone else
[6:17]  You: hiliri? are your friends popular and cool/mean too?
[6:18]  Amaliar SMSVoyager: apsaloult
[6:18]  Hermes SMSVoyager: what does that word say/
[6:18]  Hermes SMSVoyager: ?
[6:18]  Hermes SMSVoyager: absolte?
[6:18]  Amaliar SMSVoyager: *abolutely
[6:18]  Hermes SMSVoyager: oh
[6:19]  You: do you guys like running? i love to run. but im not very fast
[6:19]  You: thats ho i earned my name loser”
[6:19]  Amaliar SMSVoyager: an agat, i dont know if i go to a big school< i just go to a high schoolk
[6:19]  You: how*
[6:19]  You: o
[6:19]  You: i go to a very little school
[6:19]  Hermes SMSVoyager: donald how did you feel when everyone ignored you and called you loser
[6:19]  Hermes SMSVoyager: ?
[6:19]  Amaliar SMSVoyager: i dont lke getting sweaty
[6:19]  You: elemntary school
[6:20]  Amaliar SMSVoyager: yea how did u feel. i would of hated it
[6:20]  You: i felt horrible. they just ignored me the whole time; basicly.
[6:20]  You: i felt really bad
[6:20]  You: ;(
[6:20]  Hermes SMSVoyager: oh thats horrible
[6:20]  Amaliar SMSVoyager: that would never happen to me, but im sorry it happend t you
[6:21]  Hermes SMSVoyager: what was the little girl’s name that you saved?
[6:21]  You: why wouldnt t happen to you?
[6:21]  Amaliar SMSVoyager: how old was shye?
[6:21]  Amaliar SMSVoyager: im like the most popular goirl in the grade!
[6:21]  You: she was very young. and she was a friend. but i didnt ectually save her
[6:21]  Amaliar SMSVoyager: you dident?
[6:22]  Amaliar SMSVoyager: i though you did?
[6:22]  You: nope. it turns out that she went back home after an hour. the police were actually searchiing for me th whole time. i thought they were looking for claudia (the little girl)
[6:22]  Hermes SMSVoyager: oh when you went out to save her why were you so dedicated to save the little girl? was it because you wanted to redeem yourself and lose the nick name loser or was it because something inside you knew you should do?
[6:23]  You: no. i felt sorry for her. i couldnt beleive she ranaway. her mother was scared and i didnt want claudia to freeze to death. in the snow
[6:23]  Hermes SMSVoyager: h thats nice
[6:24]  Hermes SMSVoyager: after the running away incident how did peopl treat you at school
[6:24]  Amaliar SMSVoyager: well yea that is nice. did you have any relations to the little girl
[6:24]  Hermes SMSVoyager: ?
[6:24]  Amaliar SMSVoyager: were rthey still bullys? or did tney see the good in you/
[6:24]  You: umm. the girl was very cute. i rode my bike past her huse everyonce and a while
[6:25]  Amaliar SMSVoyager: oh, so like she wa not your like sister or friend from school?
[6:25]  You: they were still bullies but they thught i was dumb. but some thought it was caring for me to try to save her so they picked my for kickball
[6:25]  Hermes SMSVoyager: hilliri was the reason you were mean to stargirl because you were afraid she would steal your popularity cause she was nicer than you?
[6:25]  You: she was alot younger then me
[6:25]  You: nope
[6:26]  Hermes SMSVoyager: and that ppl liked her better
[6:26]  Amaliar SMSVoyager: people know im not that nice. it just anoyed me that people could like someone like tht
[6:26]  Hermes SMSVoyager: oh
[6:26]  Amaliar SMSVoyager: she was like sooooo weird
[6:26]  Hermes SMSVoyager: do you and stargirl ever become friends?
[6:27]  You: you dont like wied people? people say im wierd
[6:27]  Amaliar SMSVoyager: yea well i just dident like the way people liked her.
[6:27]  Amaliar SMSVoyager: no me and stargirl never became friends
[6:27]  You: why ?what was wrong ith her?
[6:27]  Amaliar SMSVoyager: she lives in nher own little world
[6:27]  Hermes SMSVoyager: so your saying you were jealous without using the word jealous
[6:28]  Amaliar SMSVoyager: she had a differnt outlook on life and the way she acted
[6:28]  Amaliar SMSVoyager: yea i guess, not really tho
[6:28]  Hermes SMSVoyager: ask questions about me
[6:28]  Amaliar SMSVoyager: why are you named monster
[6:29]  You: did you ever caught by police. and why were you always running? what did you do wrong?
[6:29]  Hermes SMSVoyager: thats my nick name i got it from the police my real name is steven harmon
[6:29]  Amaliar SMSVoyager: why do they call you that though?
[6:30]  Hermes SMSVoyager: i did nothing wrong the police arrested me because they thought i was involved in a robbery and murdr case although i wasnt
[6:30]  You: wy did they arrest you and not the person who did it?
[6:30]  You: why*
[6:30]  Amaliar SMSVoyager: where you friends w. the real convict?