SecondLife Blog

 The topic of Antropocene and climate change is a major issue for our planet today. Anthropocene is an official era on the timeline of earth that is human led and all we have done is caused global warming, habitat loss, changed the chemical composition of the atmosphere, oceans and soils, and animal extinction (World Economic Forum).Climate change is a topic I am very interested in and like to do what I can to take action.  In the major project with my group, I am doing the sustainability section where I discuss how the future workplace we chose is sustainable. My group and I wanted to pick a future workplace we knew would be sustainable because that is how we imagined the future will be like. Today, our planet is suffering greatly from humanity's stubbornness to take real action, but the population of activists is growing and they are educating the people and leaders on how serious the matter is. I imagine it won't be long before we see world leaders set strategies for moving

 In fifty years from now, digital citizenship will be more advanced that anyone would have thought. In reference to the Digital Citizenship's website and the nine themes of digital citizenship, I have made predictions of what each element will be like in fifty years from now. Digital Access- I believe the access to technology and the internet will be made very accessible in the future. I predict that prices will be more affordable than they are now and that there will be more inventions like complete waterproof devices, unbreakable devices, foldable pocket-size devices, public devices. The long line of new inventions will make accessing internet etc possible anywhere for anyone. Digital Commerce - Online banking and spending will become a lot more secure in the future. Today there are a lot of scams going around pretending to be AIB etc and scamming people. I predict in the future these frauds will be easily tracked down and it will no longer happen making online spending and banki

 This week's blog is going to be about my group project work and my team's process so far. My team (team yellow) have been so efficient and dedicated to this project. We have been updating each other on Whatsapp about 3 times a week and helping each other with any issues. So far, we are all in the process of preparing our own section of the presentation, as I have stated in a previous blog, I am working on the sustainable future workplace section. Kacper has set up share point presentation for our team so when we are done our slides, we can upload them to this.  I had finished my slides last week but never got around to uploading them so I tried to do it on Wednesday last week but I didn't understand how to do it. I asked in the group-chat about how to do it and I received instant replies helping me. This is something my team is very good at, helping each other where ever we can, it is important to support one and other. I managed to get my piece up on our shared presentati

 This week in class we had a guest speaker Dr Glenn Loughran who joined us to discuss the short story The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula Le Guin. I had read the story before the class and thought it was a bit strange as I didn't understand the metaphors within the text until Dr Loughran engaged us in a very interesting discussion about the story and led us to develop our own understanding ourselves.  For a quick overview of what the story means, essentially it is about a society of people who are very humble and content and seem to have no issues in their lives at all, a fantasy. As the story goes on, it takes a dark turn, we are told about a very young child who is trapped in a blacked out basement with barely any food or water and no one will let him out. The dark and twisted reason for this is for everyone else in that society's happiness. "They all know that it has to be there. Some of them understand why, and some do not, but they all understand that their h

 This week was focused on the team project we have due at the end of this semester. My team and I have met last a few weeks ago to discuss what topic each of us will do, I offered to do sustainability. My team and I have not met in Second Life since, but we have been very active in the group chat on Whatsapp about our individual processes and keeping each other updated. I put a message in the chat on Wednesday the 24th of March to clarify what I have to do on my behalf of this project. This week I began my sustainability presentation and finished over three days as I am currently drowning in other assignments this semester. However, I did complete it and I am quite happy with it. I began by looking at a text that our lecturer John has on Brightspace called "World Scientists' Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice" an article signed by thousands of scientists from 184 countries. This article addresses the serious level of risk our planet is at with our current way of living

 In last week's class we discussed the idea of online personas and our consciousness. This topic was very interesting to look at in detail. Although it is something that I have been in conversations about before, it was interesting to read about it and talk about it with someone like John who is very educated in it. My online persona would probably exist mostly on Instagram as I don't have Facebook or Twitter. On Instagram, online personas are created through the images you share and what captions you put with them. Online personas are also given through direct messages with people.  In terms of my personal online persona, I would say I don't change much to how I am in real life. I don't post a whole lot on Instagram about myself, to be honest it's mainly my dog that I post. So in a way, my online persona may be a crazy dog lover! I also like to share music from time to time on Instagram so people may perceive me by my music taste which would be hard to do as I have