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Today, ANGEL Learning announced it's efforts in Second Life. I've attached the press release. I've been working with Ray Masters from AL for several weeks now in preparation for the announcement, and will continue to work with AL as an ANGEL/SL expert.

My hope is to assist them in developing some data transfer protocols between ANGEL and SL. For example, it would be nice to take attendance at a SL event and pump that back into an ANGEL course. Going the other way, it would be great to transfer data out of ANGEL into SL. For example, imagine being able to take data sets, send them to SL, and render them in 3D. NOAA is already doing this with weather maps. This is also possible to some extent via Moodle, an open-source CMS. The mashup is named Sloodle.

Anyway, stay tuned! For more information on Second Life, please visit my Virtual Worlds blog at

http://ets.tlt.psu.edu/virtualworlds