After reading the readings for this week, especially with attention to their work on MOOs, I stand by my opinion from last week that if I went back in time to these MOO dawnings, I would have just as much trouble as the troubled students listed in the articles.

I think that the reason for this is the specificity required for each program the article lists. I'm pretty sure I could get Daedalus (despite my lingering fear that online chat will end with me getting kidnapped at the mall in a white panel van), but the MOOs look like they require command knowledge and even a mental ontological positioning about where one is at in the virtual space.

A great example is the picture of the Garden area in the Haas Gardner piece. The little explanation that the MOO gives for the space isn't bad; it basically says that the garden is calm and peaceful and nice. But the picture they attach is of the Spanish Steps in Rome. WTF? That doesn't seem like a garden to me, and that's the kind of thing that would have me lost for hours.