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05.31.08Students in Second Life: Suffern Middle School Case StudyKevin Jarrett recently moderated a discussion surrounding a middle school's successful integration into SL that was based on a podcast by Peggy Sheehy. Suffern Middle School serves around 1,200 students in Suffern, NY. But it is also the first middle school in the nation to have a learning presence in SL, called "Ramapo Islands," with an associated blog. Jarrett writes about the high quality of the SL experience for the students in SL: "What's amazing though is that you can hear the kids themselves talk about the things Peggy mentions in her podcast, the power of the medium to captivate them, to utterly ...
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