Middle schoolers in Second Life

Here's a blog I came across of a teacher who has set up three islands in Teen Second Life for her middle school. She talks about the process she took to get approval through her district to set this "second life" up for her school. For her three islands: she plans to use one to orient them, one as a place for student work to be displayed, and one as a recreational/entrepeneurial island for students who have successfully completed tasks on islands 1 & 2. The 2nd island will be collaborative with other teachers. She plans on having students in other classes create and post the "new" style of book reports, projects in a museum-like atmosphere. Pretty cool.

http://rampoislands.blogspot.com/2006/07/proposal-passed-islands-are-up.html