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= The Blithedale Romance Project =


 * Overview:** Students in American Romantics at DeSales University will be creating a virtual space based on Nathaniel Hawthorne's text, The Blithedale Romance.

**The Romantic Women Wiki Project**
= = = Teams =

= Project Steps and Rubric =

Team A: Hawthorne Study Group
Project Manager Meg Communication Specialist Brenda Ethics Supervisor Jason In World Liasion Alex Meeting Manager Jen

Team B: Romantic Period Experts (Politics and Philosophy)
Project Manager - Ellea  Communication Specialist - Nichole  Ethics Supervisor - Paul  Meeting Manager - Jen  In World Liaison - Justin

Team C: Transcendental Experts
Project Manager = Tanya Communications Specialist = Randy Ethics Supervisor = Merideth Meeting Manager = Tiffany In World Liaison = Jen

Team D: Sociology Experts (Customs, Mores, Religion)
Sylvia: project manager

 Craig: meeting manager

 Nate and LaShawn: communications specialist

 Jen: ethics supervisor

 Steve: in-world liason

=Logging in to Second Life™= There appears to be some confusion in the minds of some students about accessing Second Life.

There is a website at http://secondlife.com but this is purely for information purposes, you do not enter Second Life (the virtual world) from here - although you do use it to create a new account. Rather you must download and run the //client// (simply the correct name for the specific programme) that runs Second Life and allows you access. You can download the main client from http://secondlife.com/support/downloads.php install it (this process depends on your computer's operating system).

To access Second Life you run the programme in just the same way you would run MS Word or Internet Explorer. The programme's icon is a green eye-in-hand.

If you find analogies help you, using Second Life is a bit like driving a car. The website can let you find out all kinds of information about the car, but to know what it feels like to drive, whether you can reach the pedals comfortably and so on, you need actually get into the car and drive it. The Second Life website contains an huge array of useful information, although it isn't always the easiest thing to find, but to access the world you have to run the client - or drive the car.