SECOND LIFE / 18

Today's topic is about another type of virtual reality : Second Life 

Second Life is a platform that is basically an online virtual world.

After creating an account on the website, you download the Second Life application on your laptop. And then  you sign in the app. 
The application provides you a lot of "island"choices to join. For each world , the "island" word is used. While discovering the app, you can see these island on the world map section of the app. 
To try this application, i signed up and joined my university's island which is called Istanbul Uni - Erasmus. However, i could not reach the location because of technical issues. If you want to check how looks this location, you can visit one of my friend's blog to see there : here is the blog address.

In spite of this issue, i started looking around , and i found another island related to education. then i went this island and looked around.

 As you can see from these pictures, you can direct your character in the way you want. In this island, there are many activities that you can try ; you can order some food or you can

get into sea just like i did in the photo :) Just like your real life , you can control everthing. You can change your character's appearance. Moreover, beyond the real life, you can change the time. you can choose a morning to a night. One another important feature of these virtual world is that because of being online platform, you can communicate with the other users of the app. 

In that sense, we can think SL as a good way for language learning process.  As a teacher, you can create an island for your classes and  support them to speak English. Especially in these quarantine days, this application is very suitable for creating an authentic environment for language learning process.