Experiences (So Far)

This week I learned about working in an entirely virtual environment such as Second Life, and I was fascinated with the variety of avatars and names each student had come up with. There was even an avatar that closely resembled my own!

The Living in Tudor Times is a really interesting course. I had my first meeting with Snow Scarmon on Saturday, and we walked around to different locations in SL that were beneficial to the course. From the worlds I visited, I'm getting a feeling for what to expect from the course and the project I'm currently working on.

Today I did some more research on the people connected to the House of Tudor, using Wikipedia as my primary source, and found out some fascinating information on them. I used the list provided by the instructor for week 1 and added my facts to it. Some of the pages had images of the people, and I wrote down the pixel size, the artist's name, the medium, and the date, if any of them were available. Other pages had no images, so I didn't have a source for them. I listed the link to the pages I had gotten my research from and entered it below each person's name.

I decided on my character name and residence for this week. I'm going to be Catherine of Aragon and live in Hampton Court.