Meeting with Bryan's Students in SL on 24th January

I had a meeting today with two different groups of Bryan's students in SL today. We used the classroom space at Hyperborea Bryan often uses, and I presented some basic information about the course and what we wanted the US students to do. I used the audio chat facility in SL, which Bryan had hooked up to some speakers, and they used text chat.

It's quite odd communicating that way, since you don't really know how what you're saying is being received. It's also quite difficult to stop yourself responding emotionally to the apparent body language of the avatars you're 'speaking' to. Some of the heads will drop because of a lack of mouse movement, and it's hard not to think that they're getting bored.

So far, the US response has been very positive. We'll see now what happens when we actually get down to working together.