After looking at the virtual worlds review website I didn't find any tools that really looked useful to me. The whole virtual world seems kind of like a video game and definitely not something I could see myself using in a classroom. It just doesn't seem like kids could learn from programs like this because it would come off as more of a game then an actual learning experience. The second life thing really threw me off as well because it just reminded me of SIMS and I have always thought that SIMS was a very provocative and useless game.
I also don't believe that this virtual reality is safe. I think that it exposes children to an uncontrollable world and who knows what kind of crazy people are hacking their way into these worlds. There is barely enough time for teachers to teach the curriculum that they need to get through let alone teach students a whole new virtual concept that might not even benefit them in any way. I believe that this whole virtual world thing is definitely a fad and has no place in education whatsoever.

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http://ideasandthoughts.org/2009/03/31/the-ukulele-project/comment-page-1/#comment-31466
my code name is: Melissa205 : )