MUVE

[|MUVE] =Multi-User Virtual Environment=



Check out Second Life!
Learn about what it is and what's happening with it at this [|Newsweek article]. Be sure to check out the Second Life photo gallery.

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This is totally cool. I don't know much about this yet, but I want to know more. Check out [|Second Life]. Second Life is, I believe, the beginning of a revolution. If nothing else, it's going to be a revolution in entertainment. Amazing stuff! Applications for the classroom? Well one guy I talked to at an [|Open Source] lab was a music teacher at a private school in Florida. He is working on developing unit in which students will study a time period of music. In particular he was interested in having kids research characters who would be involved with the music scene of a local monastery. Kids would create characters' clothing. Offer period specific foods, and actually build a monastery based on what they find in researching the times and the music. All possible in Second Life. Students should use [|Teen Second Life.] Here's a project in which educator's explored classroom applications for Second Life. [|The Story of my Second Life].

I was thinking in an English class I might create an assignment in which students interact as characters from a Shakespearean play. They would create characters with the attributes they read in the play.

I just think there are tons of ways this could be engaging, fun, and meaningful for students. Check it out. Post here as you learn more. I don't know much yet.

Here's the Educational Stuff about Second Life!
ISTE, the International Society for Technology in Education, has been working to establish a Second Life Island. Check out what they've done with Second Life and how some people are envisioning educational applications for the technology.[| ISTE in Second Life.]