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As most of you that read this know, I make my living from contracting by building for educators in Second Life™. I'm going to slightly edit (so as to make anonymous) the comment passed to me by one of my contractors from her Director of e-Learning policy about teaching in virtual worlds.

I took a look at Second Life and other virtual worlds a few months ago and reached the conclusion that some people teaching at universities had spent a lot of time constructing sites, but there was…

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What is good about teaching in a virtual world? What are the drawbacks? I'll give you a few of mine: immersion is good, collaboration is easier and good. No visual feedback is bad.

Apologies for the late posting of this, I have been feeling migranous most of the day, and this duty slipped my mind. What I'm hoping to get today is a list of "features" in order that you want to see in your educational virtual world. Let's say, for example, you think access monitoring is the most important thing, then the ability for trusted people to script, then uploading textures, then human only avatars you'd write a list like:

1. Access monitoring
2. Trusted scripting
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Welcome to my (first) week of moderating discussions for this group. What I plan to do is every morning (my time) post a question that will hopefully stimulate some discussion. I can't keep my eye on it all day every day sadly, but I will check back in as time and other commitments allow and try to give some nudges. For that reason I won't give a position on the question until later in the day, although some of you will know my position on some of these questions anyway. For a starter for the w… Continue