Second Life education websites

Main grid focused

Dave Taylor's blogg (http://knowledgecast.wordpress.com) is all about Second Life and provides links to more info about interesting places/events in SL. Dave works for the National Physical Laboratory.

A New York City middle school exploring SL (blog)
http://rampoislands.blogspot.com/

The list of universities who have locations in SL
http://simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Institutions_and_Organizations_in_SL

Second Life Education Wiki
http://simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Second_Life_Education_Wiki
-Proceedings of the Second Life Education Workshop (August 20th. August 2006)
http://www.simteach.com/SLCC06/slcc2006-proceedings.pdf

Metalab: "Creating and exploring tools for online learning events within Second Life"
http://metalab.blogspot.com/2006/06/communal-whiteboard.html

VITAL Lab at Ohio University - overview of a good range of SL projects
http://vital.cs.ohiou.edu/index.php/Second_Life_Development

101 Uses for Second Life in the College Classroom
http://trumpy.cs.elon.edu/metaverse/gst364Win2005/handout.html

Teen Grid focused

Global Kids - one of the larger/more well known teen programmes - lots of podcasts, etc here and blogging about development of Global Kids
http://holymeatballs.org/

Rampo island blogg - First Middle school in SL
http://rampoislands.blogspot.com/

Education projects on the Teen Grid - A Glimpse - covered by LL themselves
http://blog.secondlife.com/2006/12/29/education-projects-on-the-teen-grid-a-glimpse/

What are Kids learning in Virtual Worlds? - a conference sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation looking at evidence about the educational relevance of virtual worlds (including Second Life)
The conference website
Video of the conference

International Schools Island (ISI) - a commercial set up focussed initially on providing access to Second Life (and info about it) for folk in S.E.Asia - has some useful material on the website ...
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