Teaching, Technology, and Learning

I've mostly stayed out of the realm of using 3D Virtual Worlds for Education, e.g. an environment like Second Life where you have an avatar as opposed to a flat 2D environment with more traditional chat/slide windows. However, maybe I need to look into it some more. Jim Vanides writes about his "epiphany" that the virtual environment makes it feel more more like being face-to-face: http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/archive/2008/09/09/j...

There's another good set of articles about teaching in virtual environments at educause:
http://connect.educause.edu/Library/EDUCAUSE+Review/EDUCAUSEReviewMagazi...