Every week or so I hear about a company looking to Second Life as a teaching environment. First, I have to say that Second Life is a great Web 2.0/massively multiplayer environment. I respect the ability of people to make money in Second Life. I respect the ability of people to "hang" in Second Life. I think it is great that companies are prototyping visual and structural designs in Second Life. I suggest everyone listen to the Business Week podcast . Having said all of that, Second Life, as is, is not a teaching tool. It is content free. It is closer to a virtual classroom tool, or even ...

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Build Tiny Prims in Second Life . I view this as e-learning since the person watching the video is getting instruction on how to build in the world of Second Life. This can be used for many different training applications using the world of Second Life as a platform for creation of the learning. Here is a link to a blog entry (another form of informal ... (collection of many training-related blogs) MSIT Second Life Wiki Industry Web Sites and ... Reminder: Upcoming Webinar Questions about Second Life Who is in Charge? Meeting the Guys from Unity ...

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Second Life Lite A medium size Virtual Classroom / Meeting Tool will announce features in 2008 that are not 3D ... Talent Management - likely mostly features that you really don't care that much about. Luckily a few will also add in more ... . Prediction #10 => Knowledge Worker Skills - Just Beginning in 2008, Big in 2009 The discussion of knowledge work skills ...

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