Educator Blogs Experiences Teaching Inner City Teens in SL

"PESD Island" is a blog devoted to an island in Teen Second Life, where the teacher Norma Underwood (Noreen Strehlow IRL) blogs her experiences educating a group of kids in SL. "I work with inner city youth who do not have much access to computers outside of school. In doing the work we have done on the island," she wrote on a recent NWN thread, "these students are getting a chance to think about careers they would not have thought about before. Many are talking about doing work in the graphic arts or architecture. They are getting a chance to create with almost limitless materials which is something that rarely happens when even art supplies have to be doled out carefully." Excellent stuff. (Above, some of Norma's students in-world, posing on a group photo.) Photo: pesdisland.blogspot.com