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A constant frustration for educators using SL is how to make the client work in a particular campus I.T. setting.  Students own a mish-mash of personal computers and campus labs may be locked down or subject to Byzantine systems of administration that limit “gaming” or installing software.

Add to these concerns the inherently changeable nature of SL itself: client upgrades that strand older hardware, a database as likely as not to go down just before a big presentation to senior administrators, and the negative press that SL received after the media euphoria in 2006.

Challenging? Yes. Insurmountable? No.

So what can we do to get our students past the technical hurdles to actually use SL? Read my expanded entry for a few ideas.

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