First experience on Second Life

Second Life is an interactive game which players can communicate in text or voice in a virtual environment.
For a new player, I don't think it is easy to manage. It is attractive as it offers experiences that human cannot do in a real world, e.g dive in the deep sea, fly into the sky and look over the city. Yet, I cannot make it related to effective learning on proper English. Yet, I had first encountered the guy in the game saying something impolite, such as commenting on ones' appearance or teasing for inappropiate behaviours. For the younger learners, I think it is not a securce place for them to learn and use English. Yet, for adult English learners, they may need such a place to talk in English freely without burdens on rejection by others on face-to-face basis.

Hoping that more educators can help making this game a really edutainment to SL learners, I find the Ancient Islands fun for learning hisotry. Showing achitectures, people and other objects of the past in a virtual world let players feel more familiar. Especially for learning the culture, art, music and literature, learners need to know about the context of the arts. This games make the arts pop up in front of the players where they can walk around in the old city with the paintings, music, sculptures and landmarks all around.