used for education to teach students about molecular structure/spectra, also through games - Kubke

Jean-Claude Bradley also creates virtual exhibits in second life that the students can visit - Kubke

virtual conferences - Kubke

increasing activity in second life, primarily astronomers and chemists, but seems to be spreading to different areas - Kubke

Education: Invite academics and anyone with something interesting to say to give talks in second life - can live video stream from real life lecture venues. Questions from second life relayed to speaker - increase breadth/size of audience - Kubke

$150/month for educational institutions to maintain an island. The real cost goes into development. - Kubke

For Darwin's anniversary they build the Beagle and people go into it and visit it. - Kubke

Budget to have in mind to do something depends on whether you can use prefab things or whether you need to bring in specialists - Kubke

Second Life science discussion being ustreamed here: http://bit.ly/AI2pV #sbcPA (via @nthmost) - Kubke

can live video stream through the web to increase audience - Kubke

Funny anecdote: someone didn't attend a lecture because there weren't enough chairs :) - Kubke

The difference with webinars is that second life appears to adjust to real life social rules - Kubke

Younger academics steered away from second life etc because of impact in 'credibility'. - Kubke