The Building of eRappu in SL: Tag Cloud

The team of eRappu have been discussed several times what kind of building could we
construct. The team agreed that the purpose is not to copy or repeat the old 'classroom and blackboard' tradition to the second life, ie.transfer of bad habbits. This desicion led us to severe troubles and we learned immediately why it is so practical to stay in tradition: all the good modern new ideas seemed to be after few minutes of evaluation stupid and we began to take steps back and forward endlessly. But you have to start from somewhere. So we desiced to be somewhat less critical and now we have there on the eRappu site a construction called 'Tag Cloud'.

The basic idea of the Tag Cloud is that it is not a building at all but a group of clouds, or tags, where you can study, communicate and learn together with others. The learning assessories are missing so far because we have not yet learned to create them. It took some time to figure out how to build a cloud and I have to admit that my solution is still a glumsy one. This is what we call an raw idea which is, of course, also the methaphora of the tagging activity which refers to the folksonomy (versus official taxonomy). This raw idea we are going to develope to one or other direction yet unknown to us. All the fruitfull and stupid comments and ideas are more than welcome to us. Also somebody could teach us how to create instruments like a place for written feed back and a place of platform to read together texts.