I went to the writing lab and met with Adrianne Freeman and we went over my paper together and corrected it.

Topic: Education in Second Life

Outline:

Question: What opportunities are offered to study science and social sciences in Second Life and what Universities are involved?

I. Introduction
A. Talk about school.
i. Getting up in the morning and having to look nice vs. just going to a computer.

II. What Universities are available to study at in Second Life?
A. What Universities are accredited?
i. Can you earn a degree there?
B. Are there any non-accredited Universities?
i. Who runs them or is in charge?

III. Do the accredited or non-accredited Universities offer classes or is it a come in yourself?
A. What are the Universities hours?
B. What is the structure of the classes?
C. Do the classes cost?
i. How much?
ii. When and how do you pay? (Linden/real money)
D. Do you have to apply to these Universities?
i. Do you have to have a certain background?
ii. Do you need certain scores on tests?
iii. Do you need a High school diploma?

IV. Classes
A. What Universities offer classes on the Biology, Chemistry and Earth science sciences?
i. What are the classes about?
ii.What is the structure of the classes?
iii. Do you need any prerequisites.
B. What Universities offer Social Science classes?
i. What are theses classes about?
ii. Can you participate in any in world experiments?
iii. Is your class part of an experiment?

VI. Teachers/Professors
A. Who teaches the Bio,Chem, Earth sciences?
i. Are they real accredited professors?
ii. Do they get paid?
iii. Who are they and how do you get a hold of them if you have questions?
B. Who teaches the Social sciences?
i. Are they real accredited professors?
ii. Do they get paid?
iii. Who are they and how do you get a hold of them if you have a question?

VII. Conclusion
A. Don't have that yet, I need to write the rest of the paper to get more information.

Thesis statement:

Religion and spirituality are important within virtual environments because they provide, peace, fulfillment and healing.

The topic I am going to write about for my second paper is, Religion and Spirituality.

On Feb/16/07 at 12:30pm I went to the writing center in Humphreys to get help on my paper.
I met with Laura Hardin and see reviewed my paper and we talked about why she made some of the changes. It was very helpful and Laura was nice.

Monday/22/07
Met with my peer editing partner, Alex Klang. We talked about what our topics were and how we were going to research them. Alex's topic is, religion and spirituality and he plans to research this topic by attending church services in second life. My topic is, appearance, acceptance, identity and race. I am mainly focusing on the appearance and acceptance, I plan on trying to be accepted into the furry communities. We agreed to meet again tomorrow at 6:15.

Monday/29/07
Met with my peer editing partner in second life. We both have not started our papers though, we have both been to different places pertaining to our papers. Neither of us have thought too much about our thesis statements, we have not had very much time. Agreed to meet Friday.

Friday/2/07
Met with peer editing partner. We both still have not started to write our papers. Alex has been to a virtual church, but he has not been to a service yet. I am still trying to find a furry skin and Alex is going to see if he can contact any of the pastors in second life. Agreed to meet again later that night.

Friday/2/07
I could not get on second life, my computer would not let me. I then e-mailed my peer editing partner and told him what information on found on my topic. Alex e-mailed me and told me that he attended a bible study located at "The Journey: Christian Fell, Cayuga (26,52,95). In the bible study they covered John 13:1-20, we did not set a time to meet again.

Thesis Statement
- Avatar appearance such as, animal, human or mythical, is not directly related to acceptance within virtual communities.

Approach
- Trying to be accepted into communities without changing my appearance to match the appearance of the avatars in these communities.

Topic
-Appearance, acceptance, identity and race.