This week I had my first SL interaction outside the FIMS space which really helped me understand how SL can be a useful platform for educational experiences. On Thursday evening I attended the “Nancy Drew and her Legacy” event at Mystery Manor. I started out having some technical difficulties – the discussion leader said she was using Voice, so I thought we would all be using our microphones to talk to each other. I turned on my mic and it apparently made some really awful noises! It turns out that the discussion was actually going to be set up so that just the leader used her mic. We could all hear her, and the rest of the group members would type to each other. The discussion leader read what we wrote and would comment and participate in the discussion out loud. This was a really effective way running the event, as everyone could state their opinions without having to worry about interrupting anyone else.
The discussion leader read an excerpt from the first Nancy Drew novel as well as an essay from a collection from the Nancy Drew Convention held in the ‘90s at the University of Iowa (the alma mater of Nancy Drew’s original author). We discussed other female sleuths, and the contributions Nancy made to us as readers and today’s mystery novel scene. It was a great learning experience and pretty fun, too!
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