I look forward to this course. I am already a registered user. My SL name is pamet heron. I would am a MAT 01 grad and have come back to the Grad Center 3 other times to take courses to keepmyself current in emerging technologies. I am also a part owner of an island in Second Life and have a $5000.00 in Linden dollars available for purchasing of equipment to outfit my educational space. It is my hope that in this class I will now force myself to take the time to engage in SL. I have not done so yet. Time has really been and issue for me. My island is collaborative with four other school district’s on and just off of Cape Cod. We are Lighthouse Learning Island. The other three districts each have one very active member who have built spaces and already use SL for teaching and learning. Two of them are ISTE docents. I am way down on the curve and need to get up to speed. My goal for this course is to design and develop my learning space and actually develop content for delivery to teachers in the fall. My first task is to figure out how to get my avatar into my profile.

Living on Cape Cod I love to be on near the water as much as possible. I kayak, sail, powerboat, fish, lobster with my 10 pots and have just recently gotton a two-acre shellfish grant where I will be raising oysters on one acre and clams on the other. I will be planting my seeds in the next few weeks.