The second website I looked at was the Skoolaborate blog and this was a completly different virtual world site than Jumpstart was. This site is meant for schools with students from 13-18 and focuses on connecting and communicating with students from other cultures and parts of the world. The way to use this site is for the teacher to set up a connection with another school and then between the two classes they can share units and different thoughts on activities with each other. This will let the students use digital media as well as creating student involvement. This type of blog website creates a global community and can help students become of issues around the world.
This blog website is a great way to use virtual worlds throughout classroom of the world. As expressed in the chapter virtual worlds can be used to produce creativity, and imagination. With the teachers able to monitor and be invloved with this type of virtual world the issues and objections that most have to virtual worlds is gone. This site is mentioned in the chapter and it says that the activities are only limited by the imagination and this is very true and shows that teachers can incorporate this site in so many different ways to their students.
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