Over the last two weeks Republica Dominicana Virtual’s presence in the online world called Second Life has been recognized twice as a place “that we can all learn from and enjoy”. First, it was recognized by the SLED (SL Educators) on its blog www.sl-educationblog.org and later on, consequently, by LindenLabs’ Second Life blog http://blog.secondlife.com/2009/01/09/education-in-second-life-highlights-from-2008
The SLED Blog is dedicated to the ins and outs of K-20 education using the Second Life? world. SLED has a membership of over 5,200 educators in the US and worldwide. Second Life? is a 3-D virtual world created by its Residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by over 16 million Residents from around the globe.
Republica Dominicana Virtual is a “Social Cybernetic Collaboration” of Funglode’s Virtual Campus and its goal is “to enable most Dominican students to have free access to educate themselves in any part of the world, on any subject, at any time, from any part of the national territory in less than a decade.”
A first video of the campus can be seen in YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KB-E7L951U
A second video will be launched on February 10th, right before a conference by Jimbo Wales, the creator of Wikipedia at FUNGLODE, in the Dominican Republic
Anyone considering joining this initiative can do so via the Campus Social network at:
www.funglode.ning.com where instructions are available on how to enter Second Life and travel as an avatar to Republica Dominicana Virtual at: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Ontos/57/109/23