What do you look like in Second Life? Is it important?
Appearance is important in RL and it cannot be taken for granted in SL. In Second Life you can look as you wish, you can even look like any animal. This flexibility is great for teachers. You can change your image according to the lesson you are teaching. Changing your appearance is an easy and fast process:
- Right click on your avatar
- Choose “Appearance”
You can also access the window, by clicking on the “Edit” and “Appearance” options at the top menu. Here you can find all the options to modify the character:
- Shape: Body, Head, Eyes, Ears, Nose, Mouth, Chin, Torso, Legs
- Skin: Skin Color, Face Detail, Eyes, Makeup, Body Detail, Legs
- Hair: Color, Style, Eyebrows
- Eyes: change eyes color
- Clothes: Shirt, Pants, Shoes, Socks, Jacket, Gloves, Undershirt, Underpants, Skirt.
You can use textures and colors to enhance your avatar by applying them to your avatar’s skin and clothing. Inventory items to wear can be found in your Library folder. Open your inventory, find something to try on. Right-click the file and select “wear” or drag each item from your inventory onto your avatar. You can also find free clothes and body parts (shapes, skins, hair, eyes) in different places in SL.
To take off clothes: right-click on your avatar and select “take off”. Quick change: Drag a clothing folder with an outfit from Inventory and drop it on your Avatar.
You can change your appearance to make a topic more real, for example, dressing as a doctor or nurse if you are teaching about health, a hospital, etc. Wearing an animal avatar if teaching about animals. Quickly changing clothes is very handy for teaching clothes and colors. Your imagination is the limit!
Tutorial Links here for Changing appearance and
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