The basis for the event was to simulate a collaborative building process with people separated by distance and only connected through Second Life. How is the experience for those using Second Life as collaborative space but are located around different parts of the world. We attempted to achieve this by having everyone in class not speak to each other vocally. They were tasked to only communicate through SL.
The class was given a goal to build a 'Christmas-like' tree within the given time frame. The event started off with a giant beam in the middle of the sandbox and all the participants were to build on top of it. The theme was obviously a Christmas tree but wasn't restricted in having to resemble a traditional douglas fir. Documentation of the end result is displayed below.
The feedback we received was mainly about how the event had no solid goal. This is acknowledged because, there wasn't much communication going on through the duration of the event. Because there wasn't much restrictions as well, it didn't motivate participants to communicate with each other in order to meet mutual goals. Although the event was fairly simple, the bigger concern is what real issues does the community face when doing large scale collaborations. When a group of users organize to perform a play in SL what pros and cons do they face, and in what ways can the virtual world experience be pushed to allow provide collaborative spaces to be more efficient.
The class was given a goal to build a 'Christmas-like' tree within the given time frame. The event started off with a giant beam in the middle of the sandbox and all the participants were to build on top of it. The theme was obviously a Christmas tree but wasn't restricted in having to resemble a traditional douglas fir. Documentation of the end result is displayed below.
The feedback we received was mainly about how the event had no solid goal. This is acknowledged because, there wasn't much communication going on through the duration of the event. Because there wasn't much restrictions as well, it didn't motivate participants to communicate with each other in order to meet mutual goals. Although the event was fairly simple, the bigger concern is what real issues does the community face when doing large scale collaborations. When a group of users organize to perform a play in SL what pros and cons do they face, and in what ways can the virtual world experience be pushed to allow provide collaborative spaces to be more efficient.
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