I enjoy the thoughts in the thread conversation that is launched by David, rising with whom we are conversing in the virtual word. I would say the building of trust id already established by the muvenation community. Once, you are in SL, you feel a friendly atmosphere. You feel that you are there to learn or cascade the knowledge. You feel that you do not want to quit or leave while the other person is need of comfort or assistance. Personally, I felt that they are high skilled, motivated and outstanding teachers willing to sacrifice their time, effort and money for the sake of learning and teaching. Therefore, we do trust our community to be engaged in this professional development.
Socializing is another key factor in this second life. Second life, particularly muvenation land is not populated. We need somebody to keep company, if there is no activity that should be done. At the beginning, I was reluctant to speak to some avatars in SL because of their appearance, but once I associate their avatar with I would be the one who initiate the conversation. Even, all the participants have a tag that adds distinctive features, sometimes. Our common interest is encouraging guidance to further continue the process of education.

I like the way Nergiz has voiced her opinion stressing the kind of students we are dealing with. Only two students needed their real names to be printed in the certificate while they other are not interested because they were, may be, involved in learning skills for their own use and not for other organizations.

David also raised the issue of assessment in the virtual world. I think using avatar would help teachers give reasonable feedback not based on the real persona’s acquaintance, but it would be on the contributions and effective presentations by the alter ego. Again, the learning styles differ from person to another. Here, the issue raised how much academic or non-academic involvement should be associated to promote individuals?