Second Life is First Choice for PSU Advisors

November 10, 2009

Pennsylvania State University academic advisors are now required to meet students in the virtual world of Second Life.

The online campus advisors take to the community for at least two hours a week, using their avatars to interface with students and answer questions reports The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Shannon Ritter, social-networks adviser for the Penn State World Campus, indicated that the advisors are enjoying their new form of interaction, adding, “Second Life has been a completely new thing to almost all the advisers. And so at the beginning they aren’t really sure how to do anything. But we schedule training sessions and work with them on the basics.”


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Re: Second Life is First Choice for PSU Advisors

LMAO this is amazing!

 

 

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Re: Second Life is First Choice for PSU Advisors

The images this conjures up are amazing, is there going to be a dress code, or is the room going to be filled with flying penises, and people in bondage gear?

 
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