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Second Life and Communities of Practice Group Action Learning Project

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He's raising some good questions too: But what can Second Life offer over and above the normal asynchronous social software tools such as listserves and web conferences? The places with more than a handful of avatars present always seem to increase the probability of trouble though. Personally I think I???ve If there???s

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What are your most useful synchronous online facilitation practices?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But there is also a trust issue too -- particularly if you don't know all the avatars in real life. I posted a question on the educator listserv and there doesn't seem to be one. Sometimes it doesn't support the process of collaboration effectively for all the reasons we already know.