Second Life Educators of Escambia County

Laural McCallen and Lori Galli

Since February 2008, we have been engaged in online learning, collaborating and networking globally with educators via Linden Lab’s Second Life (SL), a Multi User Virtual Environment (MUVE).   We first learned of ISTE’s presence in SL, when attending a webinar presented by Kathy Schrock.  She shared how her district has purchased server space in SL to create a SIM, Lighthouse Learning Island, where they meet virtually to provide teacher professional development.
We immediately created a second life account and began our journey.  Since than, we’ve attended national conferences virtually via SL (NECC ‘08, SLEDDcc, and Virtual Worlds – Best Practices in Education Conference ), attended weekly speaker sessions, networking socials, tours of educational sims, and made many new friendships with educators globally..
We invision the potential of using this 3D environment to meet virtually supporting our learning groups.  We also want to share information of events that our teachers would be interested in attending.  We’ve created a group in SL called SLEEC (Second Life Educator of Escambia County).  Come journey with us by creating a Second Life account, joining our group and begin exploring the possibilites with us.

Lauren Thurman (Laural McCallen)
Lori Weedo (Lori Galli)
IT Teachers, Instructional Technology Dept.
Escambia County School District
Pensacola, Florida
LThurman@escambia.k12.fl.us
LWeedo@escambia.k12.fl.us