Just passing on this information which might be helpful. Although not his field directly, he may well have some good contacts for you. *************************************************************************** Michael Thomas is a professor at Nagoya University of Commerce & Business in Japan. His research interests are in language learning and technology and technology and society. Among his publications are Handbook of Research on Web 2.0 and Second Language Learning (2009) and Interactive Whiteboards for Education: Theory, Research and Practice (in press). and he is the convenor of the: InternationalAssociation of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language / LearningTechnologiesSIGEvent, A SimultaneousReal Time and Second LifeSymposium InAssociation with the JALT CALL SIG see http://wirelessready.nucba.ac.jp/ and Contact: michael.thomas@gmx.co.uk Good luck. Kind regards Sue PhD Candidate Department of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences (HASS) Faculty of Life & Social Sciences Swinburne University ............................................... Sue Malta Managing Editor International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Society (iJETS) Swinburne University of Technology John Street, Hawthorn, VIC 3122 Email: ijets@swin.edu.au Or: smalta@groupwise.swin.edu.au www.swin.edu.au/ijets

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Dear Deanya, As far as I am concerned, Sheila Webber, (University of Sheffield, UK) is involved in some educational issues using Second Life. Have a look at this: http://www.shef.ac.uk/is/staff/webber.html You may want to contact her directly --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gibrán Rivera González Room 224, Second Floor, Regent Court Department of Information Studies The University of Sheffield 211 Portobello Street S1 4DP Sheffield UK gibran.rivera@sheffield.ac.uk _________________________________________________________________ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/197222280/direct/01/ We want to hear all your funny, exciting and crazy Hotmail stories. Tell us now _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/