Second Life Selects TLE Exhibit on Virtual Education’s Future as Part of 6th Birthday Celebration

By: Alas Zerbino - TLE Official Blogger

Second Life is throwing a week-long birthday bash, and the TLE Educational Network is one of the SL organizations that’s been given exhibit space at the birthday party.

As of June 23, 2009, Second Life has been in existence for six years, and for the party celebration, its founders, Linden Lab, chose to look far into the future and the role that virtual worlds might play. When they asked for exhibits based on that theme, TLE saw the connection immediately: the future of education, and especially TLE’s vision of free and available education, is very much tied in with virtual worlds.

All SL residents were invited to apply for space; Linden Lab chose those whose applications best fit the theme of the event. Then, as Second Life says in its wiki page about SL6B (Second Life 6th Birthday):

“We took our Exhibitors far away from the green grasses and sandy beaches of their Second Life Grid and sent them into the stratosphere. . . . A vast, open landscape waiting to be developed by the first new residents of the future of Virtual Worlds. What becomes of this great "Rock" remains entirely up to them, how they adapt and harness the power of their imagination to make something from next to nothing as they share their personal visions of what they believe the future holds.”

TLE’s futuristic exhibit is now open, along with the several hundred others, at the SL6B extravaganza, which runs through June 29 -- 24 hours a day! (It’s fun to experience it at virtual midnight, as well, so play with your Environment Settings to see how it changes.)

TLE’s exhibit reflects its approach to virtual education: making use of technology (such as the robotics used in the exhibit), but in a warm, inviting environment that focuses on the human being.

Be sure to explore this multi-faceted build that’s symbolic of the future possibilities for virtual education – and do so both from the ground, and from the platform near the top:

The entire SL6B “stratosphere” is a true demonstration of the visionary imagination that thrives in Second Life and that is abundantly visible all across the TLE Educational Network’s campus.

So I invite you to come experience all the possibilities of a futuristic virtual world, and especially a futuristic virtual education venue, at the TLE exhibit at the SL6B.

And let your imagination soar!