I think that peer review is always a little tricky, because we are reviewing based on what we believe the assignment to be, not sure if we really know what the instructor is looking for. In this particular case, I feel like I actually did get some pretty good feedback because the places that I recognized my own faults were the items most represented in the “what i need to fix” portion of the peer review.
I could have done a few things differently to get even better feedback. The way my schedule works now, I usually don’t submit anything until Sunday afternoon or evening. I could have rearranged my schedule and submitted my draft for an earlier review. I also could have asked directed questions to allow my reviewers to focus on the areas in which I had my own concerns.
Maybe two questions that I would have added for my peer reviewers would have been “how does this piece reflect or not reflect my Second Life voice” and ” what sense of my online persona do you get after reading this piece” because I want to know how I come across. I have a sense of who I am, but how am I portraying it?
I found it interesting to read my classmates analyses. I think that we were all very concerned with our appearance and what it said about us, but I think that was a given because we are all new to Second Life and as we become more experienced, I think that we will focus less on our appearances and more on what we can do within our new characters. I thought it was interesting to see how one classmate has used this medium as a connection with his wife and how another created her own fantasy land within Second Life. I think I originally looked at it just as a fancy chat room, but now see that it has a number of possibilities.
