Clearly as my "Avatar" suggests, there are definitely uses for 2nd Life. I'm am still a little old fashioned in that I think these Virtual Worlds inhabited by Avatars have the potential to also be very dangerous. Adopted personas can consume younger minds who have low self-esteem and we can't all actually become the persona we create like the Jake Scully character in the movie Avatar, so I would approach the use of this site with caution.
Social networking sites such as Ning are far more controlled with less distraction and have been used at our school with suceess. I have created a Google Site for my class with some success as well.
Scootle is great, like Delicious, access to resources is always a positive. Some of the links I investigated are a bit young for secondary school use, but for weaker students the Grammar sites I looked at were very good.
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