Second Life: Teen Grid Ideas

(This is a link to one of my Lighthouse Learning Island blog entries.)

For those of you who already use Second Life, or want some ideas on how to "sell" it in your district, please take a look at this post (and any comments that are posted by others) and add some ideas of you own!

Kathy Schrock

Lighthouse Learning Island update

The island is up and getting ready to go in Second Life! It is now open to the public, although there is not a lot to see after 48 hours!

Rather than clog up this blog with Lighthouse Learning Island information and notes about the process, I have created another blog just for that purpose!

URL:
http://nausetschools.org/lighthouselearning/

Feedburner feed for your aggregator (i.e. Netvibes, Bloglines, etc.):
http://feeds.feedburner.com/lighthouselearningisland

The SLURL of the island in Second Life is:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lighthouse%20Learning%20Island/6/134/24

Here is quick picture of the island thus far:

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Well, we did it! Four school districts in Massachusetts (Nauset Public Schools, Barnstable Public Schools, Dennis-Yarmouth Regional School District, and Plymouth Public Schools) have purchased an island in Second Life!

We are calling the island "Lighthouse Learning Island" and it is intended to prvide two things. The first is an engaging venue for traditional professional development and collaboration including staff meetings, presentations on topics of interest to the educators in our district, and training materials. Noticess about workshops and events that are open to the public will sent to the members of the Second Life group "K-12 Educators", so you might want to join that group within SL if you are interested.

Secondly, the environment is intended to ramp up the Second Life skills of the teachers in the four districts in order to move ahead, in year two, with content-specific Teen Grid islands. The plan is to staff the Teen Grid islands with teachers who will use those venues to enhance student content-area instruction.

The island has been approved and should show up in a week or so. I requested a certain area for its location, but I will not know the location until it shows up!

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