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Designing the Classroom Curriculum
It is possible on virtual reality sites such as ‘Second-Life’ to take your students on tours of places like the
Globe theatre, The Louvre, historical battlefields and NASA, all faithfully reproduced in a virtual world
without leaving the classroom. SCU has two islands in Second Life where educational programs and activities
can be undertaken.
A close cousin to the virtual reality worlds is the web quest, a creative exercise requiring students to undertake
an enquiry based activity, often in the form of solving a problem, where they have to discover the cause and
then create a solution. These types of educational sites are now incorp