SOMEONE ELSE'S TERM PROJECT PRESENTATION

The project I would like to talk about is Jennifer Wong's project on Gold Farming. Ever since I started college I haven't spent a lot of time playing a lot of video games, but I love video games. Anyways, Jennifer's project on Gold Farming is about how countries such as China, Philipines, and Malaysia , hire people to play MMORPGs in order to generate virtual gold and then sell it for actual money. I looked up some exchange rates and I saw one site selling 500 gold for $6.50. Now I'm not even sure if the website I found comes from people who exploit the practices of gold farming, but I'm sure this is an average exchange rate.

The working conditions of these Gold Farmers is comparable to that of a sweat shop. Long hours, low wages, and unsanitary sleeping and eating conditions. The people hired to play are forced to work 12 hours a day with little or no breaks. And what's worse is that they cannot even escape because they give up their citizens card.

I particularly liked this project because it was video game related and like I said I like video games. I thought Jennifer did a great presentation; it was clear, concise, and interesting.

Youtube will ruin your grades!!!

As college students I know we're all pretty busy people(at least most of us), sitting in front of the computer working/studying for tests, papers, and projects. And as a college student I know we all get pretty distracted just even sitting in front of the very tool that's used to prepare for these tests, papers, and projects, the computer. We can't help it sometimes. I find myself looking at youtube, online shopping, and fmylife most of the time, even when something is due the very next day. The funny thing is I don't even like youtube or online shopping that much (with the exception of fmylife), but I can't stop visitng these sites before something important is due the next day. Does this happen to anybody else? What websites "distract" you?

My Presentation

My presentation was about how organizations use second life. I talked about how Second Life has been used as a tool to help achieve goals for teachers, businesses, and interest groups. I started off by giving a basic description of Second Life, its currency, it functions, and its prices. After I talked about how teachers, businesses, and interest groups use SL. I didn't want to hold the class up as they knew after I finish they'll get to leave class so I didn't show the whole clip of the video. Either way I believe they got the point without me having to waste their time. I believe I gave an affective presentation overall.