• Runescape

    Posted on September 6th, 2009, 1:00 pm by admin

     Another Battle - Runescape  www.runescape.com 

    After spending a few minutes on this site I can understand why the boys recommended that I had a look at it. Runescape is flashy. The graphics are excellent and the music loud and of excellent quality.  The game requires Java to run it and is “playable” straight on the screen with nothing else to download. There is a distinction between freeplay and member play as some of the “Worlds” within the game are locked to free players - I’m not sure what the difference between the games are. I suppose the site offers their 15,000 free hours and then you must subscribe.
    Runescape does require some time spent to set-up.

    • a profile is created - basically username, password, DOB, email address, country of residence. 
    • a world is selected - this must be a free world as member worlds are locked for freeplay
    • a character is designed - gender, clothing etc - could be classed as an avatar and is customisable, and changeable at certain times during the game.

    • mouse options selected
      then a tutorial begins.

    I worked through a fair bit of the tutorial and I actually quite enjoyed the setting up and acquiring of skills and items for use further into the game. I didn’t have to battle anything much during the tutorial, but that’s what this  game is about  too, although it is quite upmarket and sophisticated and much more than just a battle. I think that looking at Runescape and having a go at it for a while will help open up some avenues of conversation with some of my students which could be quite interesting.

     

     

     

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  • Topic 2 - Exercise 3

    Posted on August 17th, 2009, 4:27 pm by admin

    Create and Record Your Online Persona

    Will you have a persistent avatar across all your social
    networks and virtual environments ? Why or why not?

    When I joined Facebook I filled in the basic information about myself. I have my family’s names etc in my information but don’t have it displayed in my profile. Mainly I decided not to include information that was personal - no addresses or phone numbers etc.  As this was to be part of the subject criteria for ICT510, I did include my educational information as at the time I thought it was relevant.

     

    I decided to place a photo of myself on my page - I have done that previously on websites etc and not had any problems with them and thought that it might help some of the other students studying 510 to put a face to the name. That is one thing I have found with distance education - you can feel isolated from others. Read the rest of this entry »

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