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Having a “Plus” membership of the eLearning Guild and thus free access to all their Online Forums as well as the Events Archive, I was of course thrilled to learn that Linden Lab’s Vice President Joe Miller was to give a presentation on “Living and Learning in a Virtual World”.

As always, the event was very well attended, and the presentation was definitely worth listening to!

In talking about how educators, trainers, and students of learning may benefit from using Second Life, he covered the following topics:

It’s good to get confirmation that the number both of educators in SL (as is obvious when looking at the extremely busy SLED mailing list) and of actual classes is very much on the rise – so we’ll hopefully be able to convince more and more sceptics that SL isn’t all sex and games.

On Monday, I had the first meeting with Rainer Holtei from the Chair of Medieval English Literature and Historical Linguistics to discuss ideas.

Things are shaping up nicely, and we are ready to present the concept to the head of the department, Professor Busse.

Also, we’ve now got an official title:

Once and Future World – The Middle Ages in Second Life