Caz
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 Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 12:05 am Post subject: Teen Second Life Virtual World in schools |
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Linden Laboratories are the owners of the virtual world 'Teen Second Life'.
They state it is a safe environment for children:
http://teen.secondlife.com/parents
| Quote: | Is Teen Second Life Safe for My Teen?
Linden Lab is committed to providing a safe online environment for its teen residents. Teen Second Life will always be staffed with Liaison coverage during open hours. You can help your teen stay safe by teaching them never to reveal any personally identifying real life information while they are online. Read Linden Lab’s Online Safety Tips for more suggestions about how to communicate safely online.
The Teen Second Life Community Standards apply to all teen community areas of Second Life, the Teen Second Life Forums, and the Teen Second Life Website. You should also take a look at the Terms of Service for more information about other actions that could result in account suspension or banning. |
However, with respect to Wonderland in adult Second Life, also owned by Linden Laboratories:
http://www.secondlifeinsider.com/tag/wonderland-scandal
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If Linden Lab couldn't find any evidence of wrongdoing at Wonderland, perhaps they need to hire some journalists to investigate incidents like this. It seems that most everyone else found something broadly offensive in the place, and well, the journalists apparently found the worst sort of offense in next to no time.
Linden Lab has apparently shut Wonderland down now - we don't know if they found evidence of wrongdoing themselves, or if it is a reflexive reaction to the mainstream media putting the story in front of about 150 million people so far. |
So, Moodle is linked with 'Second Life' virtual world, owned by Linden Laboratories, who can't seem to find inappropraite sexaul behaviour going on in adult Second Life even when it is pointed out to them. We now have students in school in these virtual worlds, parents have limited access.
Teen Second Life trials in the UK:
http://www.innovation-unit.co.uk/education-experience/next-practice/ne xt-practice-in-resourcing-personalisation---schome-nagty.html
Next Practice in Resourcing Personalisation - Schome-NAGTY
Teen Second Life Pilot
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NAGTY are collaborating with The Open University, The Universities of Warwick and Liverpool and the National Physical Laboratory, in exploring whether Teen Second Life will afford the development of networked learning communities. Teen Second Life is a virtual reality world that provides almost totally open-ended opportunities for avatars (virtual representations of real world participants) to interact with each other and with the virtual world. The Schome community, based at the Open University, has invested in an island, Schome Park in the Teen Grid (which is for students aged 13 to 17). 200 members of the NAGTY community on Schome Park are involved in the pilot project. 75 of these children come from disadvantaged and under-represented Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) communities. They will be supported by experts from The Universities of Warwick and Liverpool and the National Physical Laboratory, working in three groups. These are Ethics and Philosophy, Archaeology and Physics. |
Moodle, sloodle and Second Life virtual world:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/12/442715.html
Strange behvaiour in adult Second Life, women tortured in underground cells beneath school classrooms:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=oc0C9k5tQRw
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