[IDZ/Teen] Day 9
Three things I learned about paleontology that I didn't know about before are that:
that the same fossils can be found on several different continents because of the the continents split of millions of years ago leaving animals spread up from each other. I learned that dinosaurs are not the only type of fossils that are left on the earth today. There are a lot of others that can be found but can look similar. And that when digging up the fossils they can break very easily just because they have become very fragile due to the different weather conditions and because of how they were exposed above the earth so the animals that were alive could have easily have access to it and could have done things to make it break and spread all over the earth or they could have eaten it .
My favorite experience in IDZ would most likely be just how we worked in second life. I say this because I have never been involved in second life before and just the thought of working as a character of myself have been very interesting. Also just because we got to socialize with other people it felt more comfortable doing it in second life than if I had to do it in real life.
A new skill that I have learned over the past week would be how to work better with the people around me and I say that just because I have always had a problem socializing with people and feeling comfortable around them but working in second life made it easier to do that. Socializing can be helpful in the future just because I am going to meet new people everyday and I will have to talk to them so it was just made easier in IDZ.
Learning in second life has been different than what I have done before just because I was able to have my own character and I was able to make it do whatever I wanted it to do and that was easy because it was a world where we could have done what we wanted and not being judged for it. The pros of working in second life is that we could have done anything we wanted and not be judged for it, we met new people, we had a group that we worked with, and we were in a new environment. The cons of working in second life Is that the computer was a bit slow so it made it difficult to do the task fast, it was sometimes difficult to work with our group members on a task just because we sometimes would be doing the same thing at the same time. The job was harder to do than it would have been in real life just because the tools might not have worked the way we wanted it to, but over all it was a great experience.
