Pictures of life

Today we started by taking a picture in real life as well as a picture in Second Life, to discuss and force ourselves to think about the difference between our RL images and SL images.
We discussed there being two sides to the argument, some thought that avatars were a way to hide and not really you, whereas the alternate view was that they can be a more true representation of people than their own physical body, which they cannot change.
People were also (generally) much more self-conscious with their photos than their in world snapshots - but then spent more time on the in world snapshots. I am not sure what if anything that suggests.
Some great results, and I think most people were forced to think about their self-image from a totally new perspective.

Below are some links to some RL images uploaded for students.
http://img112.imageshack.us/img112/6747/09082007784cm6.jpg
http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/4812/dsc00266px7.jpg
http://img66.imageshack.us/img66/6237/dsc00267ib9.jpg
http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/9141/dsc00040xs4.jpg
http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/1768/dsc00041td1.jpg
http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/6902/dsc00042oi9.jpg
http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/8612/dsc00043rq8.jpg
http://img467.imageshack.us/img467/3170/dsc00270sg8.jpg
http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/2826/dsc00044dn7.jpg
http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/2300/spa0293bm1.jpg
http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/2421/dsc00048qr5.jpg
http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/7729/dsc00049yv0.jpg
http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/6243/dsc00050nh9.jpg