Location: ICT Library, Info Island

I met Milosun during his fund-raising efforts on Information Island right after the Virginia Tech tragedy.

He is an educator at Tech who has been experimenting with SL for some time, and he’s worked with designers to build the amazing ICT Library.

Like me, Milosun is not bashful about his RL identity; he’s Ross Perkins, PhD - Office of Educational Research & Outreach, School of Education, Virginia Tech.

Beeble Baxter and I went in-world for multiple chats with Ross/Milosun about education with SL (and without it).  I’m stunned by the potential for educators in SL, but perhaps too stunned. 

As Milosun puts it, teachers can be so dazzled by a virtual world that they make no coherent plans and do not consider strongly enough the why behind sending students in-world.

Milosun has done really good work in-world, aside from his educational mission. Not long before our interview, Ross had given Tech a check for $1200, all collected as SLers donated money in-world from their Linden-dollar balances.

I get a good feeling every time I think about that.

You may read the entire interview with Milosun at my Web site.

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