Genome Island visit - Let's learn genetics!

Tdobs Artemis and I travelled to Genome Island. This place was phenomenal We got a free tee shirt upon entry. Then I went on a scavenger hunt. I learned about genetics or at least I tried to. 

There were several levels to the building in Genome Island that is run by Texas Weselyn University. They are teaching science here on the island and during the scavenger hunt I was given many notecards that gave me lessons in genetics. It was very interesting. What a great way to teach students.

Each area I went there was a place to click to get another task. These tasks end up teaching us about the subject matter. The first notecard told me where to visit first. I was to click on that orange question mark to visit the tower.

Then the task cards were found along my travels. Here is a copy of one notecard:

Task 2. 

The chromosome models in this room represent the 24 different chromosomes found in the human genome.  You have also been offered, OMG, ANOTHER T-shirt, this one based on the banding pattern of the largest human chromosome. 

Which human chromosome is the largest?   Hint:  the human chromosomes are arranged by size, in descending order, with the two sex chromosomes at the end.   The label for each chromosome is ABOVE the chromosome, not beside it.

Send me a Second Life IM to tell me the answer (see the instructions below). 

How to send an Instant Message in Second Life. 

            1.  Find the People tab in the bottom menu bar.             

            2.  Open the People listing and click on the "FRIENDS" tab.

            3.  Find my SL name on your Friends list:  Max Chatnoir

            4.  Click on my name to highlight it. 

            5.  Select "i" icon from the icons that appear to the right of my name.  Then select the "IM" button to open a message box. 

            6.  Type "The largest human chromosome is .... " + your answer to the question. 

            7.  Hit Return to save and send your message.  I will get your message even if I am not in world when you send it. 

           After you send the message, walk up to the 10th level of the tower for the next task. 

Virtual Hallucinatios

This week several us got together on Monday evening and went traveling in SL. Tdobs, Artemis, and I  first visited Virtual Hallucinations. As soon as we got there things started happening. I could see lights floating around Tdobs so I knew she had stumbled on to something. I was busy taking pictures and waiting for Artemis to teleport. Once Artemis arrived we all entered Hallucinations. We first got our badges and then traveled through. We saw some very disturbing items here. WWe first needed to select a male or female patient. As I turned the corner there were laptops flapping open and closed upon and a note saying that people with schizophrenia see visual distortions and to see the red poster. That post transformed from saying something appropriate to saying something inappropriate. When I snapped this pic this is not what I saw.

I met another person name Casia who joined us on our travel through. She was pleasant and found this place disturbing as well. You can see the badge we got on Artemis as well in this picture.

Believe it or not in this next pic which also did not capture what I saw a man’s pic kept appearing on the wall and the voice kept saying ‘your dead’

I left there quick and then saw a gun on the table in the next room and a voice saying you got 5 seconds to grab the gun and shoot yourself... scary trip...

We learned some things about schizophrenia and hallucinations during this trip. As I mentioned it was a bit disturbing so we left here and went to Genome Island. See my next blog post for that adventure...

More Exploration in Second Life

Well lets see now I've done so much exploring this week it seems I need a SL rehab already. I think I went somewhere almost every night this week.

I went Wednesday evening to Brasil Rio with Lourdes, Carmita, and Linda. We saw some interesting things a bit of nudity for one and other avatars/people who wanted to coax us into a club of some sort. I sent emails/postcards to Esme but looks like I forgot to save a pic of that trip to my computer so I could post it here.

So lets move on to Thursday we met up at Esme's house. The room was filled. So many classmates showed up to see what Esme had to say. That's me CabanaDiLuca in the Red leather jacket.

Esme explained to us that we can open websites with Second Life. But better yet Esme gave us $50 Linden bucks!  I spent $10 so far but more about that later. Esme then took us shopping for some free clothes so we could fulfill our change our appearance assignment for this week. She also gave some pointers on changing our body structure which I could not get to work earlier this week. See me now in the print dress and my nice glasses.

Then Esme took us to ISTE for an educational venture. We saw many things and all gathered around to talk and ask questions. 

Muffle looks great above here doesn't he. And GBuzzy is a dog but seems I do not have a picture of him.

Now today I went exploring on my own (well my 4 and 6 year old grandson were with me). I went to the Visual Pioneer Educational Site that was suggested in our Blogs and Other... document.

Right about here is where I spent my $10 Linden bucks. I gave a donation to this area. I then flew upstairs for a new change of clothes. This place had some free historical clothing.

After changing I went out of this building and started to look around and found Artemis working on her appearance. Nice to see you Artemis!

I then went over to a diner to see about getting something to eat. I didn't get waited on but there was some information about getting a menu that I chose not to get.

I also saw SIGVE building outside of here this was my last pic of the day.

More travels lie ahead. Lets see what I can find next.

Above is one of the videos I explored this week as well. Duke University's Second Life nursing school.